The Living Mummy

"The Living Mummy" by Ambrose Pratt is an early 20th-century fiction novel that drops the Egyptologist Dr. Pinsent right into adventure in the Libyan desert with famed explorer Sir Robert Ottley and his daughter. It’s a tale spun from ancient Egyptian history, where the discovery of a powerful priest's tomb, Ptahmes, triggers a chain of strange events. Dr. Pinsent's quiet scholarly life is turned upside down when the Ottleys arrive seeking his expertise for a long-awaited tomb exploration, but their journey quickly becomes filled with mystery and danger as they confront the tomb's ominous presence, a shadowy figure, and a lurking sense that the past has come to life.

Ambrose Goddard Hesketh Pratt was an Australian writer born into a cultivated family in Forbes, New South Wales.