a gilded eye-of-Horus amulet with a "jewel" at the end a facsimile of the gilded mummy mask of King Tut a souvenir booklet showing how to read simple hieroglyphs
a playable game of Senet - ancient Egyptian checkers - including board, pieces, original-style dice, and rules
an extravagantly gilded cover, featuring a raised Horus hawk pendant with three encrusted gems Here are just a few of Egyptology'sspecial features: But luckily, her keen observations live on in the form of a lovingly kept journal, full of drawings, photographs, booklets, foldout maps, postcards, and many other intriguing samples. Alas, Miss Sands and crew soon vanished into the desert, never to be seen again. Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt - and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris. Jennifer MattsonĬopyright © American Library Association.Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition - a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread. Dragonology's broad crossover success probably won't be reincarnated here, but the allure of the subject matter and the luxe packaging is likely to be considerable.
The images often appear overly slick, compromising the notion that they have been sketched on the fly by members of the expedition, and a fantastical frame story about the "lost tomb of Osiris" undermines the informational content, despite an awkward concluding attempt to separate fact from fiction. Even so, this seems to lack the cohesive artistic purpose that distinguished its predecessor. As in Dragonology, pull-out documents, sundry flaps, and other novelty elements (including a "sample of mummy cloth" and a game of Egyptian checkers) will have children breathlessly anticipating each page turn. Ernest Drake's Dragonology (2003)-which, like Dragonology, credits a fictional character as its author, leaving those responsible for its written content unacknowledged-purports to be the scrapbook of an amateur archaeologist gone missing during the height of 1920s Egyptomania. Bound in gold and embellished with ruby-red "jewels," this follow-up to Dr.
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