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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 الثالث والأخير: الحيوانات المقدسة المحنطة كلها بالتفصيل، والمومياوات الخادعة التي خدعت الجامعين، ومومياوات الغوانش وبيرو وباليرمو وبورما، والتحنيط في العصر الحديث. 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 of Pettigrew’s Plate I (1834) — stands on the stage while Pettigrew’s book is read whole, aloud, in Arabic, in Kareem’s voice — the third and final volume: all the sacred embalmed animals in full, the deceptive mummies that fooled the collectors, the mummies of the Guanches, Peru, Palermo and the Burmans, and embalming in modern times. The bookstore barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
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What’s Inside
- Chapters XIII–XVIII + the Explanation of the Plates, complete: الحيوانات المقدسة المحنطة — الثدييات · الطيور · الزواحف والأسماك والحشرات · نماذج المومياوات الخادعة · مومياوات الغوانش وبيرو وباليرمو وبورما · التحنيط الحديث · شرح اللوحات — every word Pettigrew printed. (Volume One carries the Introduction and Chapters I–VI; Volume Two carries Chapters VII–XII.)
- 4 hours 22 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 VII, the portrait painted on an Egyptian 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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