The complete online text of The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume.

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...

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