This week we're traveling back to Ancient Egypt AND 1920s Egypt in 1999's The Mummy! Join us for a discussion of mummification, bandoliers, just what the heck is that invasion in the beginning of the film, female Egyptologists, and more!

Sources:

Libyan Invasion? David Johnson, "Egypt's 1919 Revolution," Socialist Alternative, available at https://www.socialistalternative.org/2019/04/03/egypts-1919-revolution/ Ellis Goldberg, "Peasants in Revolt: Egypt 1919," International Journal of Middle East Studies 24, 2 (1992) Libya, Encyclopedia Britannica, available at https://www.britannica.com/place/Libya/History Federica Saini Fasanotti, "Libyans Haven't Forgotten History," Brookings Institute, available at https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/01/18/libyans-havent-forgotten-history/ "The Second Italo-Sanussi War," available at http://countrystudies.us/libya/21.htm

Mummification: Joshua J Mark, "Mummification in Ancient Egypt," Ancient History Encyclopedia, available at https://www.ancient.eu/article/44/mummification-in-ancient-egypt/ Arthur Aufderheide et al, "Human Mummification Practices at Ismant El Kharab," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 85, (1999) David Lorton, "The Treatment of Criminals in Ancient Egypt," Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, 20, 1 (1977) Koichiro Wada, "Provincial Society and Cemetary Organization in the New Kingdom," Studien zur Altagyptischen Kultur 36 (2007) Ichiro Hori, "Self-Mummified Buddhas in Japan: An Aspect of the Shugen-do (Mountain Ascetic) Sect," History of Religions 1, 2 (1962) Davey Young, "The Monks Who Spent Years Turning Themselves into Mummies," Atlas Obscura, available at https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sokushinbutsu

Bandoliers: dictionary def: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bandolier "A Modified Equipment for the Royal Army Medical Corps" (1911) http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jramc-16-02-08 "Bandolier, also bandoleer," The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (Oxford University Press, 2002). Stuart Reid, "1335 Bandoliers," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 70:281 (Spring 1992): 64. Anitra Nettleton, "Crossing the chest: bandoliers with and without bullets in imaging the 'Zulu'," Southern African Humanities 30 (December 2017): 125-43. Henrik Langeluddecke, "'The Chiefest Strength and Glory of This Kingdom': Arming and Training the 'Perfect Militia' in the 1630s," The English Historical Review 118:479 (Nov. 2003): 1264-1303. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3490593 Saheed Aderinto, Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria: Firearms, Culture, and Public Order (Indiana University Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2204p6x.13 Sophie Esch, Modernity at Gunpoint: Firearms, Politics, and Culture in Mexico and Central America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv7r40t7.5 Belinda Linn Rincon, Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture (University of Arizona Press, 2017). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1t89kqs.10 Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (University of California Press, 2016). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv1xxsj1.18 Jonathan Endelman, "Displaying the state: visual signs and colonial construction in Jordan," Theory and Society 44:3 (May 2015): 199-218. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43694757 Jane Tynan, "Images of Insurgency: Reading the Cuban Revolution through Military Aesthetics and Embodiment," in Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics ed. Catherine Baker, 213-41 (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv10kmf1g.15

Film Background: Clark Collis, "Snakes, sandstorms, and strangulations: The making of 1999's The Mummy" Entertainment Weekly (13 August 2019) https://ew.com/movies/2019/08/13/the-mummy-making-of-brendan-fraser-stephen-sommers/ Wiki: "The Mummy (1999 film)," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(1999_film) Roger Ebert, "The Mummy," (7 May 1999) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-mummy-1999 .

Female Egyptologists: Ruth Whitehouse, "Margaret Murray (1863-1963): Pioneer Egyptologist, Feminist and First Female Archaeology Lecturer," Archaeology International 16 (2012-13): 120-127. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ai.1608 Eliza Apperly, "The unsung women of Egyptology," Thames & Hudson (7 October 2020). https://thamesandhudson.com/news/the-unsung-women-of-egyptology/ Wiki: "Mary Brodrick" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Brodrick Amara Thornton, Archaeologists in Print (UCL Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv3hvc9k.6