Author: Nicholas Reeves
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780590457538
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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An account of Howard Carter's discovery of King Tutankhamen's tomb.

Author: Abie Longstaff
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 1407171356
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Does your mummy tell you off for jumping on your bed?Does she make you eat vegetables when you don't want to?Then call The Mummy Shop, and we will help you find the perfect new mummy. 100% satisfaction guaranteed!When a little boy grows tired of his mummy, he calls The Mummy Shop for help. But after a number of mishaps and misunderstandings, he starts to think he may have made a big mistake... A laugh-out-loud tale of one boy's quest to find the perfect mummy... his own!

Author: Anna Knight
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780789437297
Category : Puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Discover the pyramid's long-lost secrets as you travel with intrepid adventurer Johnny Thunder and his fearless crew.

Author: Bryan Senn
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476650527
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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In 1932, The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff, introduced another icon to the classic monster pantheon, beginning a journey down the cinematic Nile that has yet to reach its end. Over the past century, movie mummies have met everyone from Abbott and Costello to Tom Cruise, not to mention a myriad of fellow monsters. Horrifying and mysterious, the mummy comes from a different time with uncommon knowledge and unique motivation, offering the lure of the exotic as well as the terrors of the dark. From obscure no-budgeters to Hollywood blockbusters, the mummy has featured in films from all over the globe, including Brazil, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, and even its fictional home country of Egypt--with each film bringing its own cultural sensibilities. Movie mummies have taken the form of teenagers, superheroes, dwarves, kung fu fighters, Satanists, cannibals and even mummies from outer space. Some can fly, some are sexy, some are scary and some are hilarious, and mummies quickly moved beyond horror cinema and into science fiction, comedy, romance, sexploitation and cartoons. From the Universal classics to the Aztec Mummy series, from Hammer's versions to Mexico's Guanajuato variations, this first-ever comprehensive guide to mummy movies offers in-depth production histories and critical analyses for every feature-length iteration of bandaged horror.

Author: Basil Glynn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350129372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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The Mummy is one of the most recognizable figures in horror and is as established in the popular imagination as virtually any other monster, yet the Mummy on screen has until now remained a largely overlooked figure in critical analysis of the cinema. In this compelling new study, Basil Glynn explores the history of the Mummy film, uncovering lost and half-forgotten movies along the way, revealing the cinematic Mummy to be an astonishingly diverse and protean figure with a myriad of on-screen incarnations. In the course of investigating the enduring appeal of this most 'Oriental' of monsters, Glynn traces the Mummy's development on screen from its roots in popular culture and silent cinema, through Universal Studios' Mummy movies of the 1930s and 40s, to Hammer Horror's re-imagining of the figure in the 1950s, and beyond.

Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307762637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Ramses the Great returns in this “darkly magical” (USA Today) novel from bestselling author Anne Rice “The reader is held captive and, ultimately, seduced.”—San Francisco Chronicle Ramses the Great lives! But having drunk the elixer of live, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied—for food, for wine, for women. Reawakened in opulent Edwardian London, he becomes Dr. Ramsey, expert in Egyptology. He also becomes the close companion of voluptuous, adventurous Julie Stratford, heiress to a vast shipping fortune and the center of a group of jaded aristocrats with appetites of their own to appease. But the pleasures Ramses enjoys with Julie cannot soothe him. Searing memories of his last reawakening, at the behest of Cleopatra, his beloved Queen of Egypt, burn in his immortal soul. And though he is immortal, he is still all too human. His intense longings for his great love, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger. . . .

Author: Sam Rather
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945919985
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Sometimes, history is boring.Sometimes, it is interesting.Sometimes, it comes to life.

Author: Leena Pekkalainen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789774168116
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Mummies; Egypt; study and teaching.

Author: Kate McMullan
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 9780374380335
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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When Peter Harring kisses a mummy mask on a dare, he finds that he has fulfilled an age-old prophecy and must contend with an ancient Egyptian sorceress in order to right a terrible wrong.

Author: Pat Cadigan
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN: 9780091868307
Category : Mummy (Motion picture : 1999)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book, the remake of the 1932 horror classic, is set to be one of the biggest films of 1999. The book takes the reader behind the scenes in the making of Universal Studios' blockbuster, including the dazzling special effects work of Industrial Light & Magic.