Mummy-Mania

Animal Mummies
Graeco-Roman accounts of Egypt, from the history of Herodotus to the satires of...
The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt
In August 1838, the distinguished Scottish artist David Roberts embarked on an...
Broadsheet Announcement of a Mummy Unwrapping
This proposal was printed for George Gliddon in order to solicit ticket sales...
Handbill for Gliddon's Panorama of the Nile
George Gliddon had these small handbills printed by Jared Craig in Philadelphia...
Coffin of Pa-Ib
This brightly painted coffin belonged to Pa-ib, a priest of the god Min (a god...
Unwrapped Egyptian mummy, female, with fragments of linen wrapping
Human and animal mummies have been studied intensively since Napoleon's...
Embalmed - That They May Keep Until 1880 or Longer
The presidential election of 1876 was one of the more controversial votes in...
A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and...
When Thomas Joseph Pettigrew published his monumental treatise on mummies in...
The Text and The Textile Albums: Antinoé et les Sépultures de Thaïs...
Two books by Albert Gayet are bound in The Text Album: Antinoé et les...
The Mummy
In 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon brought Tutankhamun to the world and...