After Quote by Zahi Hawass

“When they happen across an Adventurer from Mexico, and the ancient City he has discover'd beneath the Earth, where thousands of Mummies occupy the…

— Thomas Pynchon

So you find a lot of things in Egypt in royal and high status tombs made out of gold because it's a precious object.…

— Josh Gates

“Haven't I heard of men more dried up than he is, being brought all the way from Egypt in cases covered with pictures?" "You…

— Jules Verne

I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egypt, on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be, "Be sure,…

— Jack Handey

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Mummy dying with it; Christ dying with it, nailed hand and foot; hanging over the bed in the night-nursery; hanging year after year in…

— Evelyn Waugh

MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent…

— Ambrose Bierce

What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your…

— Rick Riordan

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold:…

— William Shakespeare

The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed…

— Perry Brass

A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold.

— LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN