This is my invite for 2008. I plan on creating an old looking letter in photoshop and then emailing them to everyone invited. This year's theme is British Mummy Unwrapping. I read about these at a museum... in the 1800s British people would go on "holiday" to egypt and if they were fortunate enough to either find a mummy or buy one, they would ship it home and hold a party where they would gather with friends to "unroll" the mummy. Most of the time they had to use scissors and devices to get through the harded resin coating used to embalm the body and the mummy wasn't actually "unrolled". I find it all grotesque that people were basically grave robbing these ancient people and then examining them like they weren't even human!
The grossest thing I've read said that the likes of Francis Bacon and the French Monarch of Francis I never went anywhere without a pouch of mummy mixed with ground rhubarb to take if he ever felt ill! What were they thinking!?! The mummiya, as it was called in apothecary shops all over Europe, actually caused violent nausea (not surprised!) and presumably took the patient's mind off of his original aliment!

Yeah, I plan on offering my party guests pulverized mummiya!

Here's my invite:

Nobility and Gentry, Visitors and Inhabitants,
County of ----- and its vacinity...
are respectfully informed that an Egyptian mummy in
the highest state of preservation has been acquired by means of
the celebrated traveller, Mr. Belzoni of Bath!

The spectacle will begin by unrolling the mummy to
look upon the face which has been shrouded in
secrecy after a lapse of some 4 thousand years!
The mummy was found entombed among personal relics
and a rare find indeed; a mummy of the ibis, the sacred bird of
egypt now extint!

Please join us on the evening of
Oct. ----, 2008 commencing at --- p.m.
Address
Admittance One Shilling or at no cost in costume of choice!

~Wood and Co., Printers of the Bath Gazette, UNION-STREET Bath, 1842~