Citations:momiology

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English citations of momiology

the study of mummies (from French momiologie, from momie)

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see also Citations:mummiology, Citations:mummyology
  • 1894 March 2, The Athenaeum, page 283:
    Even the history of the Egyptian dynasties is a department of momiology, for the tablets of Abydos and Sakkarah belonged to temples which are connected with that future life and day of judgment for which the mummy lies patiently waiting — in []
  • 2002, Erin McKean, Roz Chast, Weird and Wonderful Words, Oxford University Press, USA (→ISBN)
    Someone who studies giants is interested in gigantology; and the study of mummies is momiology.