Unwrapping Egyptology and the Occult at Penn Museum	Print Issue
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On Saturday, October 25 at 3:30 p.m., Steve Vinson of Indiana University will speak on Unwrapping Egyptology and the Occult: The Curious Case of Battiscombe Gunn and Aleister Crowley at the Penn Museum. Crowley, (above) a notorious British occultist who proudly proclaimed himself the “Beast 666,” maintained a relationship with famed Egyptologist Gunn—who, along with several contemporaries, was interested in the esoteric and the occult.

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