Tag: Ancient Egypt

And so the curse of the mummy begins! What is interesting about this report of a cursed mummy is the claim that it was sent…

You can’t make this shit up, folks. People in the early 1900s would scare themselves silly over the idea of haunted mummies, sort of like…

1922 was the year of great ancient Egyptian discoveries. It was also the year when Egypt decided to take a step towards preserving its incredible…

We grow up fascinated by ancient Egyptian mummies. We read scary books about them, see them in the museum, and watch horror flicks with “living”…

No different from the crap you read in your Facebook feed, the ancient Egyptians also wrote about the mundane, day to day stuff, too. Egyptians…

Everyone wants to have a mummy in their home, right? I actually like the idea of manufacturing fake mummies to sell off. They’d make great…

As television has dusted off the mystifying King Tutankhamen for the mini-series Tut (2015), they have once again muddied the waters of fact and fiction….

Who knew that Egyptian mummies were wrapped in asbestos cloth to help preserve the bodies? Absolutely fascinating stuff in this article, published in 1896, about…

Here is yet another case of a curse mummy. What I find most interesting about these early accounts of evil mummies is that the majority…

People have been waging labor strikes since, at the least, the time of the ancient Pharaohs. It was not something that was affiliated with a…