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The face of Tutankhamun / Christopher Frayling.

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xviii, 298 p. : ill.; 25 c mm.

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Contents

Selections from his autobiographical notebooks / Howard Carter -- Extracts from She / H. Rider Haggard -- One thousand miles up the Nile / Amelia B. Edwards -- Five years' exploration at Thebes / Lord Carnarvon -- The finding of the tombs of Harmhabi and Touatânkhamanou / Theodore Davis -- Cairo / Percy White -- Selections from The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen (vols. 1-3) / Howard Carter -- Extracts / Alfred Lucas, James Henry Breasted, Harry Burton, Arthur Mace, Minnie Burton and Acting-Sergeant Richard Adamson.
The romance of the mummy / Théophile Gautier -- The mummy's foot / Théophile Gautier -- Some words with a mummy / Edgar Allan Poe -- The jewel of seven stars / Bram Stoker -- The ring of thoth / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The valley of the sorceress / Sax Rohmer -- Imprisoned with the pharaohs / H.P. Lovecraft and Harry Houdini -- Comments on the latest craze / Punch [magazine] -- The malevolence of ancient Egyptian spirits / Arthur Weigall -- The fatal curse from the tomb / Velma -- A mummy's hand that came to life / Cheiro -- A message from ancient Egypt / Frederick H. Wood -- The treasures of Egypt / Peter Green -- Egyptian rites / Edward W. Said -- Abusing the pharaoh / Dennis Forbes.

ISBN

0571168450

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gb^93009086^

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Harvard Library