Mummy Power [1]: \"The railroad...

Mummy Power: "The railroad from Cairo to Alexandria, imposed on the Abbas Pasha by the English in the early 1850s, runs through several bustling necropolises; Egypt had no indigenous coal and very little wood. ... During a ten-year period the locomotives of Egypt made use of no other fuel than that furnished by the well-wrapped, compact mummies."

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Posted: March 13, 2002