The Tomb is a graphic novel

Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...

 written by Nunzio DeFilippis

Nunzio DeFilippis

Nunzio DeFilippis is an American writer of comic books and television. He writes with his wife, Christina Weir, whom he met while they were both students at Vassar College. The two have written for two seasons on HBO's Arli$$, and have sold story ideas to the Disney Channel's Kim Possible...

 and Christina Weir

Christina Weir

Christina Weir is a writer of comic books and television. She writes with her husband, Nunzio DeFilippis, whom she met while they were both students at Vassar College....

 and illustrated by Christopher Mitten. It was published in 2004

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 by Oni Press

Oni Press

Oni Press is an American independent comic book publisher based in Portland, Oregon. It was founded in 1997 by Bob Schreck and Joe Nozemack with the goal of publishing the kinds of comics and graphic novels they themselves would want to read...

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Synopsis

Jessica Parrish is a down-on-her-luck archaeologist whose last hope of glory is to lead a team of explorers into a tomb

Tomb

A tomb is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes...

 that is buried in the most unlikely place — the basement of a New England

New England

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 mansion. The team discover that the house is booby-trapped like an ancient Egyptian

Egypt

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 tomb. It is also seemingly haunted by ghosts

Ghost

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 condemned by King Tut

Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun , Egyptian , ; approx. 1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty , during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom...

's curse.