The Mystery of the Albany Mummies

The Mystery of the Albany MummiesFrom the Nile to the Hudson, the story of how two Egyptian mummies joined an American museum collection. In 1909, two mummies, one dating from the 21st Dynasty and the other from the Ptolemaic Period, arrived in Albany, New York. Purchased from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by Albany businessman Samuel Brown for the Albany Institute of History & Art (AIHA), they have been on continuous exhibition since then and are the most popular, celebrated, and

Excavated in the beginning of the century by Harriet Boyd Hawes (Gournia) and Richard B

about race in American society

conventional lives for themselves while supporting their husbands through the various stages of the criminal justice system

Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker

as that world came into being in the First Times of creation and transformation and in the ongoing magic of a natural environment that is alive and without firm boundaries between the here and now and the ancestral past

who obeys a logic not of good sense or self-interest but profligacy and irrationality

These six personal case histories of challenges to establishment experts tell why they questioned conventional wisdom

air temperature and tropospheric ozone concentration

including a Mr

The events described in this volume took place during al-Ṭabarī's own time

and convinced the public that these predictions were legitimate

originating on the Greek Aegean Island of Ikaria