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The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is an 1827 three-volume novel written by Jane Webb (later Jane C. Loudon). It concerns the Egyptian mummy of Cheops, who is brought back to life in the year 2126. The novel describes a future filled with advanced technology, [1] and was the first English-language story to feature a reanimated mummy ...
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The Buckeye Book Fair will be held 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, featuring more than 100 Ohio authors. The 37th annual event will be held at the at the Greystone Event Center, 50 Riffle Road ...
In another auction, Tina Fey's book of humorous essays went for $5.5 million to $6 million, while former President Jimmy Carter's White House diaries sold for "around $1 million" according to ...
The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century; Mummy (undead) The Mummy Case (Hardy Boys) Mummy on the Orient Express; The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned; The Mummy's Foot; The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy
During the Edwardian period in 1914, a wealthy shipping-magnate-turned-archaeologist, Lawrence Stratford, discovers an unusual tomb.The mummy inside is identified as the pharaoh Ramses II, the most powerful and most celebrated pharaoh in the history of Egypt, despite the tomb's dating only to the first century B.C., 1100 years after the documented death of Ramses II.
Date Author Source Document Notes April 1833 W. E. Horner M.D. Reproduced in Times and Seasons 2 May 1842 Having examined with considerable attention and deep interest, a number of Mummies from the catacombs, near Thebes, in Egypt, and now exhibited in the Arcade, we beg leave to recommend them to the observation of the curious inquirer on subjects of a period so long elapsed; probably not ...
The book tells the story of Nicholas van Huyn, a Dutch explorer who travelled to the Valley of the Sorcerer to explore the tomb of a mysterious Egyptian queen, Tera. In the tomb, he finds a sarcophagus and a mummy hand with seven fingers, adorned with a ruby ring with seven points that look like stars.