Fig. The Opening of the Tomb of Nitocris by Darius (?) – René-Antoine Houasse circa 1686   Daisy Butcher The nineteenth century’s fascination with Egypt reached its apogee in the Mummy novel—from Jane Webb Loudon’s 1827 The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, the first book to feature a reanimated Egyptian mummy, to Bram…