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The Romance of the Mummy, Theophile Gautier

I read this book teenager, and I remembered only that I liked. The argument is seductive: an English lord and an archaeologist, are opening a tomb untouched, which apparently is that of a pharaoh, or at least a very important, given the size of the tomb and its sumptuous decoration. Upon opening the sarcophagus, archaeologists discovered a papyrus scroll, it will take several months to read, which tells the story of the character wrapped in bandages.

Although the approach is more romantic archaeological point, the story is fun and allows you to dive, with a wealth of descriptions in the era of the pharaohs, or at least imagine what Gautier, on foundations of archaeological knowledge at the time.

His thoughts on the legitimacy of archaeologists to violate the graves, even if we discover the wonders that we are excited and eager to learn, are not trivial and unfounded ... I happened to have a heavy heart to the mummies that exposes the Louvre and other museums: it is not clear that the applicants would have enjoyed this posthumous fame, whereas they had taken if great care to hide their remains for another life ... A pleasant reading

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