Nekrokedeia: or, the art of embalming : wherein is shewn the right of burial, and funeral ceremonies, especially that of preserving bodies after the Egyptian method. Together With An Account of the Egyptian Mummies, Pyramids, Subterranean Vaults and Lamps, and their Opinion of the Metempsychosis, the Cause of their Embalming. AS Also A Geographical Description of Egypt, the Rise and Course of the Nile, the Temper, Constitution and Physic of the Inhabitants, their Inventions, Arts, Sciences, Stupendous Works and Sepulchres, and other curious Observations any ways relating to the Physiology and Knowledge of this Art. In three letters. Illustrated with a map and fourteen sculptures. By Thomas Greenhill, Surgeon.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Greenhill, Thomas, 1680-1740?.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Embalming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([6],viii,v,[9],367,[15]p.,plates ) map ;

Other Title:

Nekrokedeia

Place of Publication:

London : [s.n.], Printed in the Year, MDCCV. [1705]

Notes:

• The first word of the title is transliterated from the Greek.
• Reproduction of original from John Rylands University Library of Manchester.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N41948.

OCLC:

642202072