Download or read book A Mystery from the Mummy pits written by Frank Lee Holt and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book recounts the detective work of the Houston Mummy Research Program as it investigates the mysterious Egyptian mummy of a man named Ankh-Hap. CT-scans reveal that the mummy has wasp nests in its skull, wooden poles within its wrappings, and a suspicious number of missing body parts. Clues inside the coffin take the investigation to a company in Rochester, N.Y. founded by Henry Augustus Ward. This businessman raided the mummy-pits of Egypt and sold whole bodies and body parts to the public. The book investigates mummy trafficking in America and the uses made of these human remains for amusement and the manufacture of medicine, paint, and other products. The trail next leads to Texas, where the mummy spent part of the twentieth century in a veterinarian's classroom before it was lost inside an abandoned campus restroom"--
Download or read book A Mystery from the Mummy Pits written by Frank L. Holt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book recounts the detective work of the Houston Mummy Research Program as it investigates the mysterious Egyptian mummy of a man named Ankh-Hap. CT-scans reveal that the mummy has wasp nests in its skull, wooden poles within its wrappings, and a suspicious number of missing body parts. Clues inside the coffin take the investigation to a company in Rochester, N.Y. founded by Henry Augustus Ward. This businessman raided the mummy-pits of Egypt and sold whole bodies and body parts to the public. The book investigates mummy trafficking in America and the uses made of these human remains for amusement and the manufacture of medicine, paint, and other products. The trail next leads to Texas, where the mummy spent part of the twentieth century in a veterinarian's classroom before it was lost inside an abandoned campus restroom"--
Download or read book The Mystery of the Mummy s Curse written by Gertrude Chandler Warner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aldens help the Greenfield Museum set up a new exhibit about ancient Egypt! The main attraction is a 4,000-year-old mummy. But when it arrives, one thing after another goes wrong for the museum. Has it been struck by a curse from the ancient mummy?
Download or read book The Mummy Mystery 5 written by Martin Widmark and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s going on at the art museum in Pleasant Valley? Did the Egyptian mummy really come to life after 3,000 years? The terrified night watchman claims that he saw the mummy walking around the museum. The very same night, the most valuable painting in the museum was cut out of its frame. Once again, young detectives Jerry and Maya are called in by the chief of police to get to the bottom of the strange and spooky events.
Download or read book Murder in the Mummy s Tomb written by Kel Richards and published by RiverOak Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The year is 1919. An expedition led by famed archeologist, Professor Henry Fell, approaches an ancient Egyptian tomb deep inside solid rock--sealed from the outside world though long centuries. The international exploration team, which includes the popular British author, G.K. Chesterton, enters the burial chamber. Who would do such a thing?The sarcophagus is opened--but what they discover inside is not a three-thousand-year-old mummy but a freshly murdered corpse.Was it Sir Edward Narracourt, Fell's archrival who would like nothing better than to discredit the professor's work? Or Mamur Zapt, an escaped convict and revolutionary leader who is a member of the team only because of his knowledge of the geography? What about Elliot Jones, a journalist desperate to make name for himself? Or Colonel Race, the eccentric and secretive member of the party who formerly served in British Military Intelligence?"
Download or read book Violet and the Mummy Mystery written by Harriet Whitehorn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can YOU solve the case of the missing mummy? Meet Violet Remy-Robinson, an amateur Sherlock Holmes in the making… When Violet’s cousin Agnes and her Aunt Mathilde arrive from Cairo, Violet is delighted. Aunt Mathilde is a Professor of Ancient Egyptology and has discovered a mummy that may be the key to revealing the secret location of Queen Nefertiti’s tomb. Violet can’t wait to find out more! So when the precious mummy is stolen from the British Museum, it’s a disaster. Who has managed to pull off this crime right under the security guards’ noses and where is the mummy now? It’s up to Violet and the gang to save the day! Complete with two-colour illustrations throughout by Becka Moor, this is a fresh and funny mystery and readers will fall in love with Violet’s quirky charm. Perfect for fans of Dixie O’Day, Ottoline and Goth Girl.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Mummy s Curse written by Gertrude Chandler Warner and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Alden children help the curator of the Greenfield Museum set up a traveling exhibit of ancient Egyptian artifacts, the display seems to be undergoing a run of bad luck and the children wonder whether it might be under a curse.
Download or read book The Companion to The Mystery of Edwin Drood written by Wendy S. Jacobson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1986, explores the allusions in Dickens’s work, such as current events and religious and intellectual issues, social customs, topography, costume, furniture and transportation. Together with an analysis of Dickens’s imaginative responses to his culture, and their place in the genesis and composition of the text, this book is a full-scale, thoroughgoing annotation that The Mystery of Edwin Drood requires.
Download or read book The Mummy Case written by Elizabeth Peters and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses" -- and at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. And there is nothing in this barren area worthy of their interest -- until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his own shop. A second sighting of a sinister stranger from the crime scene, a mysterious scrap of papyrus, and a missing mummy case have all whetted Amelia's curiosity. But when the Emersons start digging for answers in an ancient tomb, events take a darker and deadlier turn -- and there may be no surviving the very modern terrors their efforts reveal.
Download or read book The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt written by Théophile Gautier and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mummy Mystery written by Justin Spelvin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mystery of the Mummy s Curse The Boxcar Children Time to Read Level 2 written by Gertrude Chandler Warner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aldens learn about ancient Egypt—and discover a mystery! The Aldens are helping the Greenfield Museum set up an exhibit about ancient Egypt. Is the museum's mummy cursed? Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner’s story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading by themselves with a Boxcar Children classic.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Mummy s Mask written by Paul N. Holper and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titles 3 and 4 in the exciting new series for 8-12 year olds that uses real forensics to solve fictional mysteries.Millie Nyall is about to her unveil her most exciting new museum exhibit: the gold mask of the famous pharaoh Ramses the Second (he lived to be 96 and had 200 wives). But all she reveals is extraordinarily shrill lungs as she screams: the mask is missing!Two child detectives (11-year-old Zac and Hannah) lead the reader through the clues and help them piece together all the forensic science methods used, such as DNA fingerprint plotting; tracking where your money goes, and where it has been, using the Money Tracker website; explosive residue analysis; following footprints (even toe prints) to calculate the weight, height and gender of a suspect; acoustic analysis of a rock song; forensic odontology (the examination of evidence left by teeth); using ultraviolet and infrared radiation to read burnt documents; and QEMSCAN - a scanning electron microscope that is used to analyse ancient treasures.Each chapter will present a new piece of the mystery and accompanying forensic clues, which are explained in more detail in breakout boxes.
Download or read book The Case of the Mummy Mystery written by James Preller and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Jigsaw Jones and his friend, Mila, have a new case to solve after they happen upon a genuine mummy at the class Halloween party.
Download or read book Jigsaw Jones The Case of the Mummy Mystery written by James Preller and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second-grade detectives Jigsaw, Mila, and their friends follow clues to learn if a mummy will really rise from the dead on Halloween.
Download or read book The Mummy Case written by Elizabeth Peters and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join our plucky Victorian Egyptologist , together with her devastatingly handsome and brilliant husband Radcliffe, in another exciting escapade The irascible husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody is living up to his reputation as 'The Father of Curses'. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, Emerson is awarded instead the 'pyramids' of Mazghunah - countless mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. Nothing in this barren spot seems of any interest but then a murder in Cairo changes all of that. The dead man was an antiques dealer, killed in his shop, so when a sinister-looking Egyptian spotted at the crime scene turns up in Mazghunah, Amelia can't resist following his trail. At the same time she has to keep an eagle eye on her wayward son Rameses and his elegant and calculating cat and look into the mysterious disappearance of a mummy case...
Download or read book The American Archaeologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
