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DOI: 10.4081/jbr.2005.10215
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Entertaining mummies: embalming for the sideshow

Abstract: This presentations examines a group of five mummies that were not prepared for the journey to the afterlife but rather preserved and exhibited for commercial enterprise, the sideshow. The study originally comprised five episodes of a forty episode series, «The Mummy Road Show» broadcast on the National Geographic Channel in the United States and internationally. A brief history of the sideshow will be presented to demonstrate the mummies’ roles in the development of that unique segment of the entertainment ind… Show more

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