The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt by Theophile Gautier, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

"I have a presentiment that we shall find in the valley of Biban el Mol k a tomb intact," said to a high-bred-looking young Englishman a much more humble personage who was wiping, with a big, blue-checked handkerchief, his bald head, on which stood drops of perspiration, just as if it had been made of porous clay and filled with water like a Theban water-jar.

"May Osiris hear you!" replied the English nobleman to the German scholar. "One may be allowed such an invocation in the presence of the ancient "Diospolis Magna." But we have been so often deceived hitherto; treasure-seekers have always forestalled us."

But something terrible waited for the archaeologists. Something truly frightful, and dangerous as well.