In Thebes during the reign of Rameses II, a royal chariot injures Uarda, the granddaughter of an outcast embalmer of the dead. Her fate draws together the Princess Bent-Anat, the young poet Pentaur, the physician Nebsecht and the ambitious high priest Ameni, amid plots against the absent king.
The Egyptologist’s best-known novel, crowded with authentic detail of ancient Egyptian life. Download the free EPUB.