The Time Travelers' Handbook A Wild, Wacky, and Wooly Adventure Through History!

by Stride, Lottie; Pavlic, Dusan

• ISBN13: 9780312580896
• ISBN10: 0312580894
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-27
• Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Summary

Grab your portable time machine and set off on a guided tour through the most interesting parts of ancient history. Find out ancient secrets: How are mummies made? Where does Chinese silk come from? Learn forgotten rituals: Leap over a Minoan bull, vote in an ancient Greek election, and become a jaguar warrior. And finally, bring forgotten skills to life: Pass notes in your own form of Sumerian writing, dine on ancient Roman delicacies, and play Mayan football in your backyard.

Author Biography

After quite a few years of editing children’s books, LOTTIE STRIDE has decided to start writing them. She lives in London with three children, and one or two mice in the kitchen cupboard.

Table of Contents

HOW TO MAKE AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY

 

The room you've just landed in has two people in it - but only one of them alive, and that's you. The other one is a man lying flat out on a stone slab, looking very very dead.

 

Your head starts buzzing with questions. Like, who is he, what's he doing there, and - most of all - should I fast-forward myself back home? Just then, a man comes in with all the answers. he explains that you've landed in the workshop of an Ancient Egyptian embalmer and that his job is making the bodies of dead rich people into mummies, ready for burial. He and his team are about to get started on this one.

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Excerpts

HOW TO MAKE AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY

 

The room you've just landed in has two people in it - but only one of them alive, and that's you. The other one is a man lying flat out on a stone slab, looking very very dead.

 

Your head starts buzzing with questions. Like, who is he, what's he doing there, and - most of all - should I fast-forward myself back home? Just then, a man comes in with all the answers. he explains that you've landed in the workshop of an Ancient Egyptian embalmer and that his job is making the bodies of dead rich people into mummies, ready for burial. He and his team are about to get started on this one.

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