Thomas Greenhill
ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ; 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.
