A Short History of Tomb-Raiding: the Epic Hunt for Egypt's Treasures by Maria Golia

Author:Maria Golia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reaktion Books

If you want to take any of these things, you must have a baboon and immolate it in the center of town, while saying ‘Oh you who inhabit this place, here is your offering and your incense!’ You must then burn incense in order to take whatever you like. If you don’t make this offering, it will not only be impossible to touch anything in the church, you will perish before you do. I’m warning you in advance.189

The warnings attached to many instructions inject a hint of danger, just enough to make the treasure hunter feel he’s bravely facing risks. When entering the ‘grotto of the great jinn of Helwan’, he’s cautioned to ‘wait for the emanations to dissipate.’190 Elsewhere he is advised to steer clear of a column of gold in the centre of an underground room, ‘I pray you, my son, for the love of god the adored, do not go near it or you will perish of poison!’ Another entry says to watch out for mechanical lions, and provides tips for disabling them. Treacherous companions could be worse than supernatural misadventures, judging by the number of warnings against them:

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