A picture book with scholarship? Try Tombs, Graves and Mummies edited by Paul
Bahn (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £25, ISBN 0 297 83628 5) for a quick tour
of “fifty extraordinary discoveries” from Philip of Macedon to mummies in
medieval Japan.
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