Fergus Hume is remembered now only as the writer of best-selling detective fiction in the nineteenth century, the first to sell more than half a million copies of one novel, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886). The customary judgment--reflected in Howard...
Ancient Egyptians practiced a 70-day elaborate process of preserving their dead from corruption by carefully wrapping them up in linen. A group of Egyptologists present a book about 3,000 years of Egyptian burial practices and malpractices, 'Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for...
Prebook 8/16/99; Street 9/28/99 Universal, Action, $22.98, 'PG-13,' 125 min., $152 million Box Office, Copy protected. A group of treasure-hungry explorers inadvertently unlock an evil spirit who was mummified centuries ago for blasphemy. A beautiful librarian (Rachel Weisz) and a sexy treasure...
