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Date: May 15, 2013 10:30AM
Wednesday, Doug's guest is researcher S.J. Wolfe who joins us to tell the story of Mormon founder Joseph Smith and the four mummies he bought in 1835. What really interested Smith were the accompanying papyri, but since the owner would only sell them together, Smith raised what today would be more than $64,000 to complete the deal. It wasn't just the Mormons who were fascinated; people flocked to traveling mummy exhibits around the country. We'll talk about Smith's mummies and about ancient Egypt's appeal to 19th-century Americans.
SJ Wolfe is the author of Mummies in Nineteenth Century America: Ancient Egyptian as Artifacts.
Listen live on the net:
http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/joseph-smiths-mummiesProgram should repeat at 7 PM and then available on podcast.