by David E. Sentinella · Ediciones Nowtilus, S.L. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788497630115
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«El enigma de las momias» is a historical essay by David E. Sentinella, published by Ediciones Nowtilus in hardcover (275 pages, in Spanish).
Mummification is the book's core: why some bodies are preserved naturally and others are not, how ancient and distant civilizations came to use similar techniques and for what purposes. It also connects these practices with the search for immortality and illustrates them with graphic material and examples from different cultures.
The book belongs to the collection «La Puerta del Misterio», number 4, directed by Fernando Jiménez del Oso. The book's subtitle is «La búsqueda desesperada de la inmortalidad».
Aimed at readers of history and cultural anthropology interested in funerary practices and the enigmas of ancient civilizations.
