After Ramses the Great, Egypt erupted in a power struggle for the ages. Follow the shocking tale of a child king, the chancellor who pulled the strings, and the powerful queen who seized the ...

What is the point of an abridged book? Either a book is worth reading -- for edification, enlightenment, aesthetic enjoyment or frivolous pleasure -- or it's not. But, unless you are interested merely ...

And when some old scribe tells his tale of foes by cubit, and the figures would not remain in the world of abstraction? The British Museum contains Papyrus Anastasi I, a training text of the New ...

In ancient Egypt, a young servant girl and a High Priest must each find the correct magic spells from the Book of the Dead that open the twelve gates of the Netherworld to determine who is telling the ...

"This translation of 'The shipwrecked sailor' first appeared in Echoes of Egyptian Voices: an anthology of ancient Egyptian poetry, published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1992, and is ...