Mummy Dearest.
Mummy Dearest Overview
Hercules must retrieve a lost mummy before it can consume human life force and become an evil monster. Plot synopsis
Some time ago, two grave robbers break into an Egyptian tomb to plunder its treasures.
Ron Beckett & Jerry Conlogue
Lyons Press
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You may think MUMMY DEAREST sounds familiar: it's the name of
a popular National Geographic channel - This article is about the US television channel.
For the British version, see National Geographic Channel (UK).
- For the Canadian version, see National Geographic Channel (Canada).
show too, and the authors here
recount their behind-the-scenes adventures traveling around in a
converted Charles Chips van unlocking world mummy mummy, dead human or animal body preserved by embalming or by unusual natural conditions. As a rule mummies are from ancient times. The word is of Arabic derivation and refers primarily to the burials found in Egypt, where the practice of mummification was perfected secrets. Their show
resurrected the link between mummy studies and how cultures handled
death and life: MUMMY DEAREST blends humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was with science and travelogue
to chart the authors' fascination with mummies and the stories they
tell.
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