Category
page 1Ancient Egypt in the Western imagination

The Mummy
1932 film directed by Karl Freund
Curse of the pharaohs
alleged curse believed by some to be cast upon any person who disturbs the mummy of an Ancient Egyptian person, especially a pharaoh

Ozymandias
"Ozymandias" ( ) is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner of London.
mysteries of Isis
Religious initiation rites performed in the cult of the goddess Isis in the Greco-Roman world

Oedipus Aegyptiacus
essay by Athanasius Kircher

Lot No. 249
short story by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sphinx
poem by Oscar Wilde
Egyptian revival decorative arts
style in Western art