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Motel of the mysteriesDavid Macaulay

Motel of the mysteries

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An arch and witty tale purporting to be the dissertation of some future archeologists' discovery and exploration of the "Toot and C'mon Motel" (any resemblance to a Holiday Inn and the Egyptian pharaoh is entirely intentional.) In the process, they get just about every detail wrong, surmising it to be a necropolis - does the "Plant That Would Not Die" symbolize eternal life or… wait a minute, isn't that just the ubiquitous plastic philodendron in every room? - and along the way cast doubt on what we really think we "know" about ancient Egypt. It's all enhanced by Macaulay's detailed and…

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7 editions
  • Other · English · 2008
    Paw Prints · 95 pages · 9781439510278
  • Other · English · 1993
    Scholastic Inc. · 9780590472364
  • Other · English · 1979
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 96 pages · 9780547770727
  • Other · English · 1979
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 9781299886100
  • Other · English · 1979
    Houghton Mifflin · 95 pages · 9780395284247
  • Other · English · 1979
    Hutchinson · 96 pages · 9780091406516
HumorModern CivilizationAntiquitiesAnecdotesFiction in EnglishEgyptologyTutankhamunMotel Life