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The third mummy meaning was "the body of a human being or animal embalmed (according to the ancient Egyptian or some analogous method) as a preparation for burial" (1615), and "a human or animal body desiccated by exposure to sun or air" (1727). Mummia was originally used in mummy's first meaning "a medicinal preparation…" (1486), then in the ...
Mummies: A Voyage Through Eternity (UK title: Mummies: A Journey Through Eternity; French: Les Momies : Un voyage dans l'éternité) is a 1991 illustrated monograph on the Egyptian mummies, ancient Egyptian funerary practices and the history of the discoveries of Egyptian mummies.
The mummies of Venzone Mummy found in the Roman cemetery chapel nearby cathedral Sant'Andrea Apostolo in Venzone The mummies after the 1976 earthquake. The mummies of Venzone are a number of mummies found in Venzone, Italy in the 1600s. They were mummified by natural processes, and, while such mummies exist elsewhere, the cause of the Venzone ...
The Medieval English term "mummy" was defined as "medical preparation of the substance of mummies", rather than the entire corpse, with Richard Hakluyt in 1599 AD complaining that "these dead bodies are the Mummy which the Phisistians and Apothecaries doe against our willes make us to swallow". [8]
The Universal horror films The Mummy (1932), The Mummy's Hand (1940), and the latter's sequels, contain references to a curse foretelling death to those who enter the tombs. Pharaoh's Curse (1957 film) The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964 film) The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980 film)
The Mummy's Foot (French: Le Pied de momie) is a horror short story by the French writer Théophile Gautier, first published in 1840.It relates the fantastical tale of a contemporary man and the adventures which befall him when he ventures into a Parisian curiosity shop and buys the four-thousand-year-old foot of Princess Hermonthis.
An absurdist, decadent, and Orientalist fantasy story that takes place in Paris and revolves around the mysterious man Fortunio, raised in India, and his French love Musidora. Le Roman de La Momie (1858) Translated as The Romance of a Mummy in 1863. A historical novel set in Ancient Egypt, which features the Biblical Exodus. [8]