A review by withlovejillian
The Curse of the Mummy: Uncovering Tutankhamun's Tomb (Scholastic Focus) by Candace Fleming

adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced

5.0

This is a great book to read for a child interested in Egyptology. Candace Fleming snatches the reader’s attention immediately in detailing the sensational pharaoh’s curse that ensnared the world a hundred years ago. Fleming also does an excellent job reporting on the social and political issues of the time and now it affected the historic archeological dig of Tutankhamun’s tomb without getting off point. By the end of this book, the reader will have a deeper understanding of scientific undertaking the burial practices of the 3,000 year old boy king. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Death

Moderate: Colonisation and Classism

Minor: Suicide

The book does talk about victims of the “pharaoh’s curse” wherein people die of traumatic deaths or suicide. Besides Lord Carnarvon’s death, all other deaths are described briefly. In addition, Fleming goes into great detains of the 1925 anatomical exam of King Tutankhamun which would most likely be considered alarming now.