embalmer's

The sad truth is that the framer's art, like the embalmer's, no matter how brilliantly practiced, can only set the viewer's expectations.

Gerald Sindell: Universal Rules of Framing Pt III: You In Print 2009

Egyptian hieroglyphics (pictorial writing) just tell us that when the king died his body was ferried across the Nile to the embalmer's tent on a hill for mummification.

Mummies are not about screams and horror 2008

Heidi from eRamblings has tagged me for a meme, which is excellent, because my brain is benumbed by the sinus medication I had to use to to counteract the effects of a less-than-delightful chemical bath that someone decided to douse themselves with in an effort to smell like an embalmer's wet dream.

A Meme For Shameless Self-Promotion 2008

Heidi from eRamblings has tagged me for a meme, which is excellent, because my brain is benumbed by the sinus medication I had to use to to counteract the effects of a less-than-delightful chemical bath that someone decided to douse themselves with in an effort to smell like an embalmer's wet dream.

Archive 2008-03-01 2008

Congressman Paul also sponsored H. R.1009, The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007, which since April 20, 2007 has lay waiting for the embalmer's needle in the House subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

End of the Road to Moronity 2008

What impact (if any) do you think the recent findings in the Valley of the Kings (the embalmer's cache, KV63, and the possibility of "KV64") will have on our current understanding of the downfall and subsequent cover up of the Amarna period?

Excavating Amarna 2006

For now, we can say that two of the coffins might yet prove to have mummies and that leaves open the possibility that KV-63 is a royal or noble burial combined with a cache of embalmer's material.

KV 63: A Look at the New Tomb 2006

Nefer knew that sealed within it was a lock of hair Taita had snipped from the head of Queen Lostris as she lay on the embalmer's table before her deification.

Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

I am not skilled in the embalmer's art, but I know of only one way in which we can keep our trust. '

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

The mandrake story may have arisen out of a mingling of these two streams of legend -- the shark (dog-fish) protecting the treasures at the bottom of the sea, and the ancient Egyptian beliefs concerning the dog-headed god who presides at the embalmer's operations and superintends the process of rebirth.

The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith