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4 unusual facts about Some Words with a Mummy


Some Words with a Mummy

The story was adapted as a one-act opera, Allamistakeo, by Giulio Viozzi in 1954.

Allamistakeo answers them all, while one of the men beg the narrator to consult Ptolemy, Plutarch, and Diodorus Siculus as he asks the questions.

Allamistakeo then tells the men of a "inferior" palace in Charnac, "He would not pretend to assert that even fifty or sixty of the Doctor's Capitols might have been built within these walls, but he was by no means sure that two or three hundred of them might not have been squeezed in with some trouble." The narrator then asks Allamistakeo what he thinks about railroads.

First the popular interest in Egyptology and mummies during the time that this story was written.



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