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How to Unwrap a Mummy: On Roger Luckhurst’s “The Mummy’s Curse”
IN THE EARLY part of the 19th century, Egypt occupied a liminal place in the British imagination. It represented the height of empire, a country that knew how to create culture as well as how to rule. A civilization like Egypt ...