Shadow of Anubis by Adele Dixon

What if Pride & Prejudice took place in the wave of Egyptomania that followed Napoleon's surrender in Egypt? What if Darcy was a treasure-hunting adventurer who craved more than just being really, really ridiculously rich? What if Lizzy inherited her father's love of Ancient Egypt and was a very talented translator of hieroglyphics?

Stefanie and Melinda discuss this adaptation being set at the birth of Egyptology (which happens to perfectly align to when Austen was penning her novels), some downright horrifying facts about ancient mummies, and what it feels like to finally get a Mr Bennet who isn't vying for the role of "Worst Father in the Austenverse", in Shadow of Anubis by Adele Dixon.

Links & Mentions

You can find an excellent article on Mummy Mania, the mass export of corpses, and that Mark Twain anecdote here [https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/disappearing-pod/when-mummy-mania-swept-the-world/].

More on the history of Medical Cannibalism can be found here [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-eating-medical-cannibalism-gory-history#:~:text=Eating%20mummies%20may%20sound%20unthinkable,for%20their%20purported%20medical%20benefits].

And if you still need to read more about the history of eating mummies, you can do that here [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/].

Giovanni Belzoni's full British Museum Biography is here [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG53085]. And more in-depth biography is also here [https://www.aramcoworld.com/en/articles/2018/egyptologys-pioneering-giant].

If you're interested in how Belzoni managed to move (and steal) monuments that no one else could, check out this article [https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/ancient-history/giovanni-belzoni-engineering/?srsltid=AfmBOoorh1MNa5b-nQh1kI-jpo6R-s-wewRuw5-yFFpSTbgQoId24IAB].

And you can read more on the Parliamentary Act that forbids the removal of the Rosetta Stone here [https://www.artandtownmagazine.com/2022/11/1963-act-obstruction-for-rosetta-stone.html].

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