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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. في عام 1834 كتب الجرّاح وعالم الآثار توماس جوزيف بيتيغرو أول تاريخ علمي كامل لمومياوات مصر — كيف حنّط المصريون موتاهم، ولماذا بقيت أجسادهم آلاف السنين. 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. In 1834 the surgeon-antiquary Thomas Joseph Pettigrew wrote the first complete scientific history of Egypt's mummies — how the Egyptians embalmed their dead, and why the bodies endured for thousands of years. The bookstore barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
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What’s Inside
- Introduction + Chapters I–VI, complete: المقدمة · ما المومياء · المومياء دواءً · لاهوت المصريين القدماء ومراسم جنائز الأمم · القبور المصرية · التحنيط · المواد المستعملة في التحنيط (Volume Two carries Chapters VII–XII, and Volume Three completes the book.)
- 5 hours 47 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, beginning with Plate I, the coloured whole-length portrait of the gilded Græco-Egyptian mummy who stands on the stage.
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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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