Talk:Unlucky Mummy

EA vs. AE
The numbers of the items in the B.M. are introduced by EA for Egyptian Antiquities and not AE. 90.187.173.36 (talk) 17:33, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually both forms can be correct depending on when the number was being used (the term Ancient Egypt has also been part of the department name). Numbering in the BM is a bit confusing, see BMREF for an essay covering the recommended practice for how to use the various identification numbers on Wikipedia. The "Big Number" is itself unique, so there should be no confusion either way. Cheers --Fæ (talk) 17:42, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

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Pearson's cover
File:Pearson's Magazine 1909 with Unlucky Mummy.jpg was removed from this article by User:Springsgrace and its description on Commons changed to say that the image was merely an Imagined fan fiction Pearson's Magazine cover, the evidence presented for that being that an archived copy of Pearson's August 1909 edition at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101064078676&seq=1 has a completely different cover design and contents, and includes nothing about a mummy.

Looking into this, the Pearson's Magazine article says that the British publication was published in the US from 1899 and eventually diverged into more US-oriented authors and separate editorial oversight. From the content at the archive copy above (which leads with a story about prohibition), it looks like that divergence happened before our 1903 issue.

The Unlucky Mummy cover is in the style of the British magazine around that time (see, ), it did run a short story by Sax Rohmer called The Mysterious Mummy in 1903 , and the cover as presented here is a correct depiction of the "Unlucky Mummy" board. (It's not immediately obvious whether Rohmer was writing about this board specifically in his story, or if it was just selected as an illustration for it.)

I've tried to source the original UK cover for that month, but have as yet been unable to. Are there stronger reasons to doubt the image that I'm not seeing? Belbury (talk) 09:10, 13 March 2024 (UTC)