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Bob Brier

Biography

Bob Brier

Bob Brier, known as Mr. Mummy, is a Senior Research Fellow at Long Island University/LIU Post and the author of eight books, including THE MURDER OF TUTANKHAMEN. He has conducted pioneering research in mummification practices and has investigated some of the world’s most famous mummies, including King Tut, Lenin, Ramses the Great, Evita, and the Medici family of Renaissance Italy. He has conducted research in pyramids and tombs in 15 countries and was the host of several award-winning television specials for TLC, including the blockbuster series "Pyramids, Mummies & Tombs" and "Mummy Detective." In 2010 National Geographic TV presented his documentary "Secret of the Great Pyramid." A contributing editor to Archaeology Magazine, he also writes articles for many other magazines, including Smithsonian and KMT. He lives in the Bronx, NY.

Bob Brier

Books by Bob Brier

by Bob Brier - History, Nonfiction

For 40 years, Bob Brier, one of the world's foremost Egyptologists, has been amassing one of the largest collections of Egyptian memorabilia and seeking to understand the pull of Ancient Egypt on our world today. Drawing on his personal collection --- from Napoleon's 20-volume Egypt encyclopedia to Howard Carter's letters written from the Valley of the Kings as he was excavating --- this is an inventive and mesmerizing tour of how an ancient civilization endures in ours.