One of the European explorers wrote to his friend Hamdi Bey that there were mummy graves on the outskirts of Alexandria that had not yet been discovered. Hamdi invited him to attend, along with his wife and some of his friends. One of Hamdi’s friends saw that the number of guests was 13, a number that the Europeans were pessimistic about, so he asked one of the house servants to attend. By playing the role of the Sultan of a fictional country.
