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The Lost Queen of Egypt by Lucile Morrison, Winifred Brunton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSoon to be back in print from Purple House Press!In the city of Akhetaten lived a princess, Ankhsenpaaten (later Ankhsenamon), who grew up in the royal household, one of six daughters of King Ahkenaten and Queen Nefertiti. We come to know and love this girl, called Small Bird by her family, through the events of her colorful childhood and her marriage to Tutankhaten, a boy of royal birth...Categorized as:
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Drömmarnas hus by Pauline Gedge
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe grew up on the reed-lined banks of the Upper Nile but she was not like the other villagers of Aswat. Intelligent and ambitious, Thu is convinced that her destiny is greater than to marry a peasant, tend crops and breed sons. She wants more... -
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The New Kingdom by Wilbur Smith, Mark Chadbourn
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the heart of Egypt,Under the watchful eye of the Gods,A new power is rising . . .In the city of Lahun, Hui lives an enchanted life. The favoured son of a doting father, and ruler-in-waiting of the great city, his fate is set. But behind the beautiful façades a sinister evil is plotting... -
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The Bull of Min by Libbie Hawker, L.M. Ironside
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“I know,” Satiah called. Her voice was musical, light, confident as a king's. “It's the Bull of Min you remember, Thutmose. You remember, and you fear.” Conspiracy and treason simmer in the northern reaches of the Two Lands. Thutmose is crippled by guilt over past wrongs. Hatshepsut is subdued by the grief of betrayal and loss... -
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The Twice Born by Pauline Gedge
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYoung Huy's family is thrilled when his uncle offers to pay for the boy to attend a prestigious school at Iunu. Thanks to his generous benefactor, this farmer's son will now have a chance at a better life as a scribe... -
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The Assassins of Isis by Paul Doherty, P.C. Doherty
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe mysterious Sebaus--a sect taking its name from demons--has stolen a powerful secret, and the wrath of the fiery Hatusu knows no bounds. But when the empire's great military hero, General Suten, is bitten to death by vipers, it appears events have spiraled out of her control.Meanwhile, a dark shadow lies across the Temple of Isis... -
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The Horus Road by Pauline Gedge
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the last volume of the trilogy, the youngest son of Sequenenra Tao assumes command of the natives armies to avenge the deaths of his father and bother and bring about the downfall of the foreign rulers, the Hyksos, whose alien dynasty has ruled Egypt for two hundred years... -
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The Oasis by Pauline Gedge
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter his father's death, Kamose assumes command of the rebellion of the native princes against their overlords. He makes a perilous sweep up the river Nile toward the delta strongholds of the Hyksos. The costs are heavy in terms of men slain and villages destroyed. The long domination of alien men and their gods has been effectively challenged, but Kamose cannot lead the Egyptians to glory... -
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Mother of a King by Katie Hamstead
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNefertiti has forced Naomi to flee Amarna with Malachi and the three children. But even under the protection of Naomi's family in Thebes, Nefertiti still hunts her and Tut. Nefertiti sends assassins to kill them, and while Naomi fights to protect the children, Malachi fights to keep her safe... -
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House of Illusions by Pauline Gedge
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPauline Gedge is a master at recreating the golden age in Egypt. Her heroine, Thu, a peasant girl from the village of Aswat, possesses both beauty and intelligence. To her good fortune Thu is found and brought to the center of society. She is chosen and trained for the court of Pharaoh Ramses. Her talent and guile win her a post in the harem...Categorized as:
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Stories of New Cairo by Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed ménage à trois.Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities... -
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The Lodging House: A Modern Arabic Novel by Khairy Shalaby, خيري شلبي
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA young man's dreams for a better future as a student in the Teachers' Institute are shattered after he assaults one of his instructors for discriminating against him. From then on, he begins his descent into the underworld... -
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Twelfth Transforming by Pauline Gedge
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPart of a popular line of historical thrillers set in Egypt, this second volume in Gedge's bestselling series reconstructs the court of Akhenaten, one of ancient Egypt's most controversial and colorful rulers, whose reign lead to the near-collapse of his empire some 2,500 years ago. A lustrous tale of Pharaonic decadence... -
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The Ka by Mary Deal
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCalifornia archaeology student Chione has vivid dreams about the discovery of an opulent tomb. After the founder of the Institute of Archaeology learns that Chione’s dreams might be connected to events in Egypt, he accepts an offer to examine a mysterious site in Valley of the Queens...Categorized as:
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Written in the Ashes by K. Hollan Van Zandt, Kaia Alexander
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the bloody clash between Christians and pagans in fifth-century Alexandria, a servant girl becomes the last hope for preserving peace in this evocative and thrilling tale—a blend of history, adventure, religion, romance, and mysticism reminiscent of The Mists of Avalon...Categorized as:
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The Way of Fire by Christian Jacq
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe young scribe Iker has finally realised that, in pursuing Pharaoh Senusret with his hatred, he chose the wrong target. The real enemy, the one who is attacking the Tree of Life at Abydos, is in fact the Herald, that baleful individual who is rallying troops on the border in order to invade Egypt and annihilate her... -
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Salvation in the Sun by Lauren Lee Merewether
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis future she knows for certain--the great sun city will be her undoing.Amidst a power struggle between Pharaoh and the priesthood of Amun, Queen Nefertiti helps the ill-prepared new Pharaoh, Amenhotep, enact his father's plan to regain power for the throne. But what seemed a difficult task only becomes more grueling when Amenhotep loses himself in his radical obsessions...Categorized as:
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Secret of the 7th Scarab by Nathaniel Burns
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAncient Egypt, 1231 BC While the pharaoh tries to conceal the disappearance of Queen Nefertari’s sacred heart scarab, along with Shabaka’s abduction, fears of a curse befall those travelling eastwards through the desert... -
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The Place of Truth by Christian Jacq
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsChristian Jacq, author of the international triumph Ramses, brings the people and the passions of ancient Egypt to life in an enthralling epic novel in four volumes Volume IV: The Place of Truth The beloved Master of the Place of Truth has been savagely assassinated, and the artisans of the magnificent, hidden village are deep in mourning...Categorized as:
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![The Call of the Curlew by طه حسين, Taha Hussein]()
The Call of the Curlew by طه حسين, Taha Hussein
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA unique work of fiction in modern Arabic literature. It is a romantic story about the triumph of love over revenge. It describes the social taboos of the time and how one girl eventually overcomes them. Highly poetic style with deep insight into the human heart... -
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السلطان الحائر by Tawfiq Al-Hakim, توفيق الحكيم
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsاحدى أشهر مسرحيات توفيق الحكيم التى اثارت جدلاً ضمن مؤلفات توفيق الحكيم التى تم اعادة نشره ضمن مشروع دار الشروق لإعادة نشر الأعمال الكامله لأبى المسرح... -
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Paneb the Ardent by Christian Jacq
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe bestselling author of the international triumph Ramses returns to the passion and mystery of ancient Egypt in this third volume of the Stone of Light saga.Inside a forbidden village deep in the mountainous desert, Nefer the Silent crosses paths with Paneb, a farmer's son who harbors the lofty dream of entering the fabled Place of Truth... -
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King and Goddess by Judith Tarr
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHatshepsut was the only daughter of Thutmose and his Great Royal Wife, and carried the King Right in her person. She was trained to govern, and loved her land and people above all other things. But custom and the Gods decreed that she must wed her half brother and be the Great Royal Wife while he reigned as Pharaoh... -
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Cleopatra's Heir by Gillian Bradshaw
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe might and power of Julius Caesar, the man who conquered the known world. The beauty of Cleopatra, the woman who conquered the conqueror. Together they could have forged an empire whose power had never been seen before...Categorized as:
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![War of the Crowns: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Christian Jacq]()
War of the Crowns: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Christian Jacq
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChristian Jacq, author of the international sensations Ramses and The Stone of Light, continues his epic Queen of Freedom trilogy as the fiercely determined Queen Ahhotep struggles to save her people -- and reclaim her own legacy. The barbaric Hyksos have taken possession of the whole of Egypt, imposing their harsh rule with unimaginable cruelty. Only Queen Ahhotep has yet to succumb... -
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Egypt: the Book of Chaos by Nick Drake
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe future of Egypt lies in the hands of the Medjay's chief-detective Rahotep in the final, gripping installment of Nick Drake's acclaimed Ancient Egyptian trilogy...Categorized as:
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![The First Pharaoh by Lester Picker]()
The First Pharaoh by Lester Picker
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThroughout antiquity Egypt was a land of hundreds of tiny villages, with constantly warring tribes, loosely divided between Upper and Lower Egypt. Then, in the space of a few extraordinary decades, the impossible happened. An incredible man, King Narmer (also known as Menes), united Upper and Lower Egypt...Categorized as:
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The Tale of Nefret by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwin daughters of an ancient Bedouin king struggle under the weight of an ominous prophecy that threatens to divide them forever. Royal sibling rivalry explodes as the young women realize that they must fight for their future and for the love of Alexio, the man they both love. The Tale of Nefret chronicles their lives as they travel in two different directions...Categorized as:
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The Wise Woman by Christian Jacq
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThey built a civilization ahead of its time, and dominated the ancient world. They defined an era of war, love, passion, power, and betrayal. They were a people of mystery whose secrets have turned to dust -- but who inspire our awe and wonder even to this day... The ancient Egyptians They showed us how to live. And how to die... -
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The Conspiracy Of Evil by Christian Jacq
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDespite the pharaoh Sesostris III's determination, despite the combined efforts of his generals who are searching, in vain, for the culprit, despite daily prayers and the devoted care of the queen and the seven priestesses of the goddess Hathor, the beautiful acacia tree of Abydos is dying... -
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The Great Secret by Christian Jacq
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter 40 years spent studying the doctrines of Ancient Egypt, Christian Jacq closes the series by revealing the Great Secret of resurrection. This mystery was at the very centre of Egyptian thought and pharonic civilisation, and is the key to a modern understanding of Ancient Egyptian life... -
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The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits by Mike Ashley, Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Cleopatra and Herodotus to Howard Carter and the Curse of the Pharaohs, the investigators in The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits uncover the murder mysteries of Ancient Egypt in over two dozen stories...Categorized as:
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Return of the Spirit by Tawfiq Al-Hakim, توفيق الحكيم
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe celebrated, revolutionary novel from a pioneering Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, now for the first time in Penguin Classics with a foreword by Egyptian writer Alaa Al-AswanyFirst published in Arabic in 1933, Egyptian playwright and novelist Tawfiq Al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit follows a patriotic young Egyptian and his extended family as they grapple with the events leading up to the... -
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![لأني أحبك by فاروق جويدة]()
لأني أحبك by فاروق جويدة
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsو يمضي العامُ .. بعد العامَ بعد العامْوتسقط بينَنا الأيامْرمادُ أنتِ في عينيبقايا من حريقِ ثار في دمِنَا .. ونامْو يمضي العامْ .. بعد العامِ بعد العامْفلا أنتِ التي كنتِو لا أنا . -
![Svetla tačka by بهاء طاهر]()
Svetla tačka by بهاء طاهر
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRoman Svetla tačka nastao je posle piščevog povratka u domovinu 1995. godine. Priča se odvija u Sadatovom Egiptu, sredinom sedamdesetih godina proteklog veka, u doba velike ekonomske krize. U takvim okolnostima, rađa se ljubav Selima i Lubne, glavnih junaka romana, koja budući opterećena ličnim i društvenim problemima ubrzo poprima tragičan tok... -
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The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C. by Unknown
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDrawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson's new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1940-1640 BC). The book features The Tale of Sinuhe, acclaimed as the masterpiece of Egyptian poetry, which tells of a courtier's adventures after he flees Egypt...Categorized as:
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For the Love of Philae by Christian Jacq
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's the 6th century A.D. and Christianity has been imposed throughout Egypt. On the holy island of Philae, off the southern coast, the last community faithful to the old ways struggles against the invader and continues active worship in its temple. Isis, leader of the community, is determined that their ideals will not die out... -
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Mirrors by Naguib Mahfouz, Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMirrors is one of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's more unusual works. First published in serialized form in the Egyptian television magazine, it consists of a series of vignettes of characters from a writer's life--a writer very like Mahfouz himself. And accompanying each vignette is a portrait of the character by a friend of the author, the renowned Alexandrian artist Seif Wanli... -
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Khufu's Wisdom by Naguib Mahfouz, Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAt the center of Khufu’s Wisdom, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s majestic first novel, is the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch Khufu (Cheops), for whom the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. When a seer prophesies the end of Khufu’s dynasty and the ascension to the throne of Djedefra, son of the High Priest of Ra, the pharaoh must battle to preserve his legacy against the will of the Fates...Categorized as:
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Morning Star by H. Rider Haggard
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt was evening in Egypt, thousands of years ago, when the Prince Abi, governor of Memphis and of great territories in the Delta, made fast his ship of state to a quay beneath the outermost walls of the mighty city of Uast or Thebes, which we moderns...Categorized as:
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The Black Pharaoh by Christian Jacq
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFive centuries after Ramses the empire seems to be hurtling towards irretrievable ruin. Piankhy the Black Pharaoh governs his kingdom from the South with wisdom and kindness. He has only one desire: that the gods should once again dwell in a united Egypt. But the price to pay is a heavy one... -
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The Tree of Life by Christian Jacq
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWithin the temple of Abydos, an acacia tree is dying...And through it, all Egypt is threatened. For this tree sprang forth from the tomb of the god Osiris, as proof of his triumph over death. Watered and fed on milk by the priests of the temple, the acacia is the guarantee of happiness on earth. Its withering means that great powers are conspiring to destroy Egypt... -
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![الخروج من التابوت by مصطفى محمود]()
الخروج من التابوت by مصطفى محمود
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsكيف يسرق السارق جثة لا تنفعه بشيء، ويترك ذهباً بهذه القيمة؟ كان هناك تفسير واحد: أن المومياء كانت مدفونة في مقبرة أخرى، اقتحمها اللصوص وأتلفوا الجثة (على عادة اللصوص أيام الفراعنة) وسرقوا ما أمكنهم سرقته من متاع المقبرة، ثم فطن الكهنة المشرفون إلى أمر السرقة وما حاق بالجثة من تلف، فنقلوا التابوت الفارغ إلى مقره الجديد وغطوه، وأخفوا أمر السرقة عن فرعون، وكوموا ما تبقى من متاع حول التابوت، وتركوا... -
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The Beggar by Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsA complex tale of alienation and despair. Unable to achieve psychological renewal in the aftermath of Nasser's revolution, a man sacrifices his work and family to a series of illicit love affairs that intensify his feelings of estrangement. A passionate outcry against irrelevance... -
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Rhadopis of Nubia by Naguib Mahfouz, Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz mines the riches of his homeland’s ancient past in Rhadopis of Nubia, an unforgettable love story set against the high politics of Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty.While the ravishing courtesan Rhadopis is bathing, a falcon lifts one of her golden sandals and drops it into the lap of the Pharaoh Merenra II... -
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Fountain and Tomb by Naguib Mahfouz, Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNaguib Mahfouz's kaleidoscopic novel is set in Cairo during the 1920s. The narrator tells tales of the street - of separated lovers, childhood games, workers, neighbours, loneliness. In his alley, his small slice of Egypt, he finds the excitement and harshness of Cairo at the one end, and the withdrawn but beautiful world of the sanctuary at the other... -
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السائرون نياماَ by سعد مكاوي, عمرو عبد الهادي
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsأشهرُ روايات القاص الكبير سعد مكاوى، تتناول الثلاثين عامًا الأخيرة من حكم المماليك فى قالب شيِّق جذاب. رأى فيها بعضُ النقاد أنها إسقاط مباشر على الضباط الأحرار وصراعاتهم وعلاقتهم بالشعب. وقد نُشرت هذه الرواية عام 1963 فكانت من أوائل الأعمال التى وظفتْ التراث. وُلد سعد مكاوى (1916 ــ 1985) بقرية الدلاتون بمحافظة المنوفية. أنهى دراسته الثانوية بالقاهرة، ثم سافر إلى فرنسا ليلتحق بجامعة السوربون... -
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