Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For years I've wanted to write a book about mummies, and had been following the science of mummy CT scans when the… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“In 1855, as the price of paper rose, Dr. Deck proposed to dig up 2 1/2 million tons of Egyptian mummies, ship… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said, would… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
I have a huge interest in ancient Egyptian times and the mummies and the kings and all that. — Brad Marchand Copy Share Image
These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my… — Emily Cale Copy Share Image
You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Haven't I heard of men more dried up than he is, being brought all the way from Egypt in cases covered with… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“ Tell me about mummies. Mummies exist. The Egyptians mummified people. Mummies that get up out of their cursed tombs and walk… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
“Mimicque—zombies—can only be killed with an iron or obsidian blade, so don't think you can just act like the wrestler El Santo… — David Bowles Copy Share Image
“The parallels between preserving food and preserving mummies were apparently not lost on posterity. In the nineteenth century, when mummies from Saqqara… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
