Citations:mummyology

English citations of mummyology

the study of mummies

see also Citations:momiology, Citations:mummiology

• 1831, James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Fraser's Magazine, page 113:

  ... account of some of Champollion's latest discoveries, and with his own private theory of Mummyology. He had many learned wonders to tell of Egypt; culled from Denon and Dr. Young, the Zauberflöte, Mrs. Charles Lushington, Bankes, Legh, ...

• 1900, Anson Albert Gard, My Friend Bill: Many Stories Told in the Telling of One, page 115:

  ... the time he had reached the Thirtieth, so I just spoke up and said: 'I am sorry to stop this highly edifying discourse on Mummyology and dynastical research, but if we expect to reach the boat and dinner by dark, we had better set out at once.

• 1936, Egiste Bonner, The Uncle of Uncle Sam: An Outline of American History Improved by a Dash of Sensible Nonsense, page 26:

  ... and flowing, was The Thing until 1849. It was only then and thereafter that the true billy-goat shape became tout-à-fait-à-la-mode. With no wish to disturb the mental tranquillity of the reader with a treatise of Palaeontology or Mummyology I […]

• 2002, Gaspare Baggieri, Le mummie di Venzone: aspetti di mummiologia generale e degrado post-mortem, in the Bollettino dell'Associazione "Amici di Venzone":

  Titre traduit anglais[:] The mummies of Venzone: aspects of mummyology and post-mortem deterioration

• 2006, F Dunand, R Lichtenberg. Mummies and death in Egypt:

  The unusual, disquieting appearance that the blackened cadavers present, and which the arts of fantasy continue to exploit to this day, did not prevent learned "mummyology" from making a beginning among antiquarians, as they were called in those days […]