National Geographic History - 11.2019 - 12.2019
EGYPT DESCRIBED The 17th-century naturalist Benoît de Maillet (below) gave an extremely accurate description of the geography an ...
20 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 their resins, oils, and aromatic substances not only had the same consistency and color as original Pe ...
European artists. To mix the pigment, ground- up ancient bodies were mixed with pitch and myrrh. At the time, apothecaries, who ...
MISSING MUMMY When it was discovered in 1817, the tomb of Seti I contained a giant stone sarcophagus but no royal mummy. His bod ...
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24 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 MUMMIES MARKET The mummy craze led to a macabre souvenir trade. “I am persuaded that,” wrote the Frenc ...
pharaoh’s tomb and killed several members of Carter’s team. This fear has deep roots in the European imag- ination, and preyed o ...
HANDLE WITH CARE Photographed in the 19th century, two unidentified men carefully dissect a mummy, illustrating how academic att ...
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28 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 a public theater. The first recorded account of a mummy unwrapping occurred in 1698. Ben- oît de Maill ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 29 away from pure public spectacle (though it partly remained that) and into the realm of scientific ...
EGYPTOMANIA IN ENGLAND England’s fascination with all things Egypt was probably best expressed through viewings of mummy unrolli ...
AN 1886 PRINT SHOWING THE UNWRAPPING OF A MUMMY BEFORE A SMALL AUDIENCE AT THE BULAQ MUSEUM, THE PRECURSOR OF THE EGYPTIAN MUSEU ...
MOTHER AND SON Olympias is represented in profile in this 18th-century Italian bas-relief from the imperial Pavlovsk Palace near ...
ELIZABETH CARNEY Ancient historians depict her as ruthless and cruel, but Olympias possessed enough ambition and wits to match t ...
34 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 357 b.c. Olympias becomes a wife of the polygamous Philip II, king of Macedonia. A year later, she bea ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 35 family. Olympias did none of those things. First- century A.D. Greek historian Plutarch wrote ex- ...
36 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 off several claimants to the throne, but many en- emies still threatened. The marriage of Olympias and ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 37 Maternal Maneuvers Since Philip was frequently absent on campaign, Olympias took on a greater rol ...
38 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 therefore not legitimate. He simply could have meant that any child born of this new marriage to his n ...
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