Sources

The real-world backbone: every book, text, and fact-source cited, plus full image provenance.

Ancient sources

Herodotus, Histories, Book 2.86–88 — the classic (secondhand, 5th-century BC) description of Egyptian mummification methods.
The Book of the Dead (Book of Coming Forth by Day), especially spells 6 (shabti), 30B (heart scarab), and 125 (the judgment) — the funerary text tradition behind the afterlife pages.
The Amduat (“That Which Is in the Duat”) and The Book of Gates — New Kingdom underworld guides.
Tomb inscriptions — genuine warnings against tomb violation (legal threats, not magical curses), e.g., Old Kingdom mastaba texts.

Ikram, Salima & Dodson, Aidan. The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity. Thames & Hudson, 1998 — the standard study of mummification.
Taylor, John H. Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt. British Museum Press, 2001 — beliefs and funerary practice.
Hornung, Erik. The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife. Cornell University Press, 1999.
Shaw, Ian (ed.). The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, 2000 — chronology and overview.
Luckhurst, Roger. The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy. Oxford University Press, 2012 — the curse’s invention.

Jane Webb Loudon, The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (1827).
Edgar Allan Poe, “Some Words with a Mummy” (1845).
Louisa May Alcott, “Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy’s Curse” (1869).
Arthur Conan Doyle, “Lot No. 249” (1892).
Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903).
The Mummy (Universal, 1932); the Kharis sequels (1940–44); The Mummy (Hammer, 1959); The Mummy (Universal, 1999); The Mummy Returns (2001); The Mummy (Universal, 2017).
Monster High (Mattel, launched 2010) — Cleo de Nile noted as pop-culture reference.

Vizlings app roster snapshot: vizlings-roster/roster.json (observed 2026-09-26) — Sandy Wraps: Monsterlings category, card description “Mummy girl” (quoted verbatim), 55 app chats.
All persona material (persona, lore, world, cast, scenes, lines, timeline): character canon invented 2026-09-27 for this site; see methodology.
Vizlings app: vizlings.com.

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This page is the source notes for the site’s real-world claims. Character-canon claims are sourced to the canon itself per the methodology policy.