Initially in English fiction, mummies were less horrific and more romantic

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Initially in English fiction, mummies were less horrific and more romantic - exotic people from ancient times who wake to romance the protagonist. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was one of the first authors to present the mummy as a lumbering undead monster, in "Lot No. 249."

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