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Updated: May 26, 2025
As for ancient history, we content ourselves with wondering if Anthony and Cleopatra, when picnicking in the desert, dropped orange peel and cake to feed the living scarabs of their day. We seem to be lost to the world, yet now and then we're reminded that we have neighbours in the desert.
"In government and war we must count on no man: one unreckoned little stone may overturn everything," said the minister. "If thou, worthiness," answered Patrokles, "had not pushed the columns from the road because of those scarabs." "Thou, worthiness, art a foreigner and an unbeliever," retorted Herhor, "hence this speech. From contempt of the gods is born revolt against the pharaohs."
"That ravine is five miles long, and comes out again almost in front of Pi-Bailos." "An immense loss of time!" interrupted Ramses, in anger. "I would swear that those are not scarabs, but the spirits of my Phoenician usurers," said Tutmosis the exquisite. "Not being able, because of their death, to receive money from me, they will force me now to march through the desert in punishment!"
They probably also imported from Egypt natron for their glass-works, papyrus for their documents, earthenware of various kinds for exportation, scarabs and other seals, statuettes and figures of gods, amulets, and in the later times sarcophagi.
Forthwith appeared at his table, guided by those safe hands into which he had fallen, the very men who had best said, done, written, explored, excavated, built, launched, created, or studied that one thing herders of books and prints in the British Museum; specialists in scarabs, cartouches, and dynasties Egyptian; rovers and raiders from the heart of unknown lands; toxicologists; orchid-hunters; monographers on flint implements, carpets, prehistoric man, or early Renaissance music.
"Now my hobby," said the specialist, "is the collecting of scarabs. Why should you not collect scarabs?" "Because," said Mr. Peters, "I shouldn't know one if you brought it to me on a plate. What are scarabs?" "Scarabs," said the specialist, warming to his subject, "the Egyptian hieroglyphs." "And what," inquired Mr. Peters, "are Egyptian hieroglyphs?"
A heavy basalt sarcophagus had been prepared which was to be the outer coffin of the mummy. This sarcophagus had also the form and features of the dead pharaoh. It was covered with inscriptions, and pictures of people praying, of sacred birds and also scarabs.
Then came all legendary monsters and foul beasts of a madman's fancy; in the darkness she saw enormous toads, with paws pressed to their flanks, and huge limping scarabs, shelled creatures the like of which she had never seen, and noisome brutes with horny scales and round crabs' eyes, uncouth primeval things, and winged serpents, and creeping animals begotten of the slime.
Fakirs with spangled shawls from Assouit, bead necklaces, ebony walking-sticks, scarabs and souvenir postcards jostled on the sidewalk to pass their wares over the railing. Fat Arab guides with red fezes and the noisy jargon of half-mastered French and English discussed to-morrow's journeys with industrious globe-trotters. On the tiles squatted a juggler from India.
Peters' collection of scarabs. To be sure! He remembered now his collection of scarabs. Or was it Arabs? Lord Emsworth smiled. Scarabs, of course. You couldn't collect Arabs.
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