The Mummy'S Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy [Audiobook] download free by Roger Luckhurst
- Listen audiobook: The Mummy'S Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy
- Author: Roger Luckhurst
- Release date: 2012/6/6
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Religious
- ISBN: 9780199698714
- Rating: 8.79 of 10
- Votes: 706
- Review by: Jude Pope
- Review rating: 9.34 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/30
- Duration: 4H18M11S in 256 kbps (67.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-24
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: ATRAC, FLAC, WMA, MPEG4, WAV, MP3 (compression LHA, CBR, ZIP, RAR, AZW4, AZW, TAR)
- Total pages original book: 336
- Includes a PDF summary of 38 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 29M10S (7.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the sponsor of the expedition, died in Egypt. The popular press went wild with rumours of a curse on those who disturbed the Pharaoh's rest and for years followed every twist and turn of the fate of the men who had been involved in the historic discovery. Long dismissed by Egyptologists, the mummy's curse remains a part of popular supernatural belief. Roger Luckhurst explores why the myth has captured the British imagination across the centuries, and how it has impacted on popular culture. Tutankhamen was not the first curse story to emerge in British popular culture. This book uncovers the 'true' stories of two extraordinary Victorian gentlemen widely believed at the time to have been cursed by the artefacts they brought home from Egypt in the nineteenth century. These are weird and wonderful stories that weave together a cast of famous writers, painters, feted soldiers, lowly smugglers, respected men of science, disreputable society dames, and spooky spiritualists.Focusing on tales of the curse myth, Roger Luckhurst leads us through Victorian museums, international exhibitions, private collections, the battlefields of Egypt and Sudan, and the writings of figures like Arthur Conan Doyle, Rider Haggard and Algernon Blackwood. Written in an open and accessible style, this volume is the product of over ten years research in London's most curious archives. It explores how we became fascinated with Egypt and how this fascination was fuelled by myth, mystery, and rumour. Moreover, it provides a new and startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions.
- Other categories, genre or collection: British & Irish History, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology, Folklore, Myths & Legends, Ancient Egyptian Religion & Mythology, Ancient History: To C 500 CE
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 37.05 USD
- Dimensions: 143x222x23mm
- Weight: 514g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom
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