The Mummy in Fact, Fiction and Film
In 1922, when Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen, much of what was then known about mummies came from the writing of Greek historian Herodotus and from the paintings on the walls of Egyptian tombs. Even before 1922, the mummy had been the subject of fiction, with such writers as Bram Stoker and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tackling the subject, and early films dating back to 1901. In this work, the authors present the religious, social and scientific aspects of mummies as well as an in-depth discussion of facts about them (largely Egyptian, but including other kinds of mummies). Then, how mummies are portrayed in fi…
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Weitere Autoren: Johnson, Tom
- ISBN: 978-0-7864-3114-4
- EAN: 9780786431144
- Produktnummer: 2762266
- Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H25.4 cm x B18.0 cm x D1.2 cm 381 g
- Abbildungen: 75 photographs
- Gewicht: 381
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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