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هذا هو مسرح الكتاب نفسه: مومياء الكتاب — المومياء اليونانية المصرية المذهّبة من لوحة بيتيغرو الأولى (1834) — تقف على المسرح، وكتاب بيتيغرو يُقرأ كاملاً بصوت عربي، بصوت كريم — المجلد الثاني: من لفائف الكتان التي تلفّ الجسد، إلى الصناديق المرسومة بالأساطير، إلى أوراق البردي التي تتكلم عن أصحابها، والحيوانات المقدسة التي حنّطها المصريون. باركود المكتبة في كل إطار — امسحه في أي لحظة لتعود إلى هذه المكتبة.
This is the book's own stage: the book's mummy — the gilded Græco-Egyptian mummy from Pettigrew's own Plate I (1834) — stands on the stage while Pettigrew's book is read aloud in Arabic, in Kareem's voice — the second volume: from the linen bandages that wrap the body, to the cases painted with mythology, to the papyri that speak for their owners, and the sacred animals the Egyptians embalmed. The bookstore barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
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What’s Inside
- Chapters VII–XII, complete: الأربطة واللفائف · الآلهة والتمائم والحلي · صناديق المومياوات وتوابيتها · مخطوطات البردي · التاريخ الطبيعي للمصريين · الحيوانات المقدسة المحنّطة (Volume One carries the Introduction and Chapters I–VI; Volume Three completes the book.)
- 5 hours 31 minutes of narration — Kareem reads Pettigrew's own book aloud in Arabic, chapter by chapter, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes, while the book's mummy stands on the stage.
- The plates of the 1834 edition — Pettigrew's own plates ride through the book; this volume's cover is Plate II, the profile of the same mummy.
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This is the public-domain text of Thomas Joseph Pettigrew's A History of Egyptian Mummies (1834), presented as a talking hologram book in a fresh Arabic translation made for this edition from the public-domain English original — no modern translation was used. Pettigrew died in 1865, more than a hundred and sixty years ago. The narration is a synthesized Arabic reading (Piper — Kareem) of that text, made for this edition; the figure on the stage is the book's own mummy, from Pettigrew's Plate I in the 1834 edition, and the book says so plainly in its disclaimer, which stands first, before the book begins. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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