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...d gave him a challenging look. Jack added, “Didn’t a donkey find the Valley of the Golden Mummies by step- ping in a hole?” “Jack…” Alex warned. ... ...’s reaction to that kind of request?” Jack laughed. “He’d make sure you two were the next mummies added to the shifting sands of Egypt.” “Don’t wor...

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...the Abd al-Russul brothers from the notorious treasure-hunting village of Gorna, who confessed under torture to having found the great cache of royal mummies at Deir el-Bahri in July 1881. The cache was moved to Cairo as soon as possible to keep it safe from robbers. “In 1886 he resumed work begun by Mariette to uncover the Sphinx, removing more than 65 feet of sand and se...

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...the Abd al-Russul brothers from the notorious treasure-hunting village of Gorna, who confessed under torture to having found the great cache of royal mummies at Deir el-Bahri in July 1881. The cache was moved to Cairo as soon as possible to keep it safe from robbers. “In 1886 he resumed work begun by Mariette to uncover the Sphinx, removing more than 65 feet of sand and se...

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...the Abd al-Russul brothers from the notorious treasure-hunting village of Gorna, who confessed under torture to having found the great cache of royal mummies at Deir el-Bahri in July 1881. The cache was moved to Cairo as soon as possible to keep it safe from robbers. “In 1886 he resumed work begun by Mariette to uncover the Sphinx, removing more than 65 feet of sand and se...

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... a quavering line; some with palsied heads, others dark and shriveled like mummies; some erect and stiff, others bowed and bent, but all of them trick...

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...n. There was a pause. “Second—Second Departed I’ve ever seen. Not counting mummies,” said Mr. Polly, feeling it necessary to say some- thing. “We did ...

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... the simple immodest accessories to life in Polynesia, to a seat among the mummies. She was trying to bring her problems to a head, and her mind insis...

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...d Japanese soldiers in World War II. Similarly, human organs and fetuses as well as mummies are still being gobbled up - mainly in Africa and Asia -...

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...d Japanese soldiers in World War II. Similarly, human organs and fetuses as well as mummies are still being gobbled up - mainly in Africa and Asia -...

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...cers on their heads, and they were so lean and hideous that they were like mummies in tattered shrouds. A few trembled and sobbed with a stupid look; ...

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... in particulars only, not in generals. When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began ...

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...e. No member of the party was at that period aware that entire or unopened mummies are not infrequently met. The brain it was customary to withdraw th... ...ongue—you, whom I have always been led to regard as the firm friend of the mummies—I really did anticipate more gentlemanly conduct from you. What am ... ...vast benefits accruing to science from the unrolling and disembowelling of mummies; apologizing, upon this score, for any disturbance that might have ... ...“I perceive that,” said Mr. Buckingham, “and I presume that all the entire mummies that come to hand are of the race of Scarabaei.” “Beyond doubt.” “I... ...d,” said he, “that among the catacombs near the Nile there may exist other mummies of the Scarabaeus tribe, in a condition of vitality?” “There can be...

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...h- ing, and his weakness in feeling, their attacks, and in show- ing their mummies for money. That Pope deserves, on the whole, the name of “poet,” we... ...wood, and one in strong cow-hide; 150 There, saved by spice, like mummies, many a year, Dry bodies of divinity appear: De Lyra 269 there a d... ...bleman.—P . W . 421 ‘Mummius:’ this name is not merely an allusion to the mummies he was so fond of, but probably referred to the Roman General of th...

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...ever, who whitewasheth his house, betrayeth unto me a whitewashed soul. With mummies, some fall in love; others with phan- toms: both alike hostile to...

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..., and years which she must spend in sorting what might be called shattered mummies, and fragments of a tradition which was itself a mosaic wrought fro...