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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
Amelia Peabody and her family have set out for the ruins of Napata in the heart of Sudan, only to be sidetracked by the search for a long lost explorer.
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Ra the mighty volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Ra, the pharoah's pampered cat, and his scarab beetle sidekick, Khepri, investigate when crown prince Dedi disappears from the palace of one of Pharoah's wives in ancient Egypt.
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Eye of Isis volume 1
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Alexandria, 47 BC. Cleopatra shares the throne with her brother Ptolemy under the auspices of Julius Caesar, by whom Cleopatra is heavily pregnant. A shipment of new coins meant to reset the shaky Egyptian economy has been stolen and the Queen's Eye has been murdered, so Queen Cleopatra turns to childhood friend Tetisheri to find the missing shipment and bring the murderer to justice.
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English
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A historical murder mystery adventure that stretches from Classical Athens to Egypt in the footsteps of the first historian, Herodotus Nicolaos, the only private investigator in ancient Athens, discovers that helping an author with his book research can be very dangerous. The would-be author Herodotus has hired Nico and his priestess wife, Diotima, to accompany him to Egypt to research that ancient country s history. Unfortunately, Egypt happens to...
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Series
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Current day kids Annie and Nico travel back to ancient Egypt. That's about 4,500 years ago, when the world's largest pyramid was built, The Great Pyramid of Giza. It's also called the Pyramid of Cheops because it was built for the Pharaoh Cheops, who wanted to be buried in it when he died. That's right--pyramids are giant tombs! It was the first of seven buildings known as The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World--and it's the only one still standing!...
12) Ancient Egypt
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Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Travel back in time to the age of the pyramids with this interactive trivia book from Jeopardy! winner and New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings. With this book about ancient Egypt, you'll become an expert and wow your friends and teachers with awesome ancient facts: Did you know that some Egyptians used to shave their eyebrows whenever a cat died? Or that some people worshiped a god of lettuce? With great illustrations, cool trivia, and...
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Mamur Zapt mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Atbara, Sudan, 1913. A dead man is fished out of the River Nile. An accident or something more sinister? A visiting Pasha from the Royal Household believes it was murder and that he himself was the intended target. He insists that the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Khedives Secret Police, escorts him on his return train journey to Cairo, for protection. It's to be an eventful voyage"--Dust jacket flap.
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Series
Time jumpers volume 2
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ava and Chase want some more information before they embark on another adventure in time, but the woman who gave them the suitcase filled with magical objects is not being helpful, and when Chase picks up the scarab of King Tutankamun they find themselves transported not to ancient Egypt, but to Egypt on the day King Tut's tomb is discovered--and they must get the artefact back into the tomb while avoiding Randall who has arrived before them.
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Cleopatra, the ultimate influencer, tells her version of events as the ruler of the last ancient Egyptian dynasty. What would happen if the famous people of ancient Egypt were given the opportunity to tell their version of historical events-in their own words? It would be incredible! In this highly entertaining and comically illustrated book, Cleopatra is brought back to life to tell her own version of history.--
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Publisher
Albatros Media Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Over 5'000 years ago, a civilization developed along the Nile River whose sights and remnants are still enchanting people from all over the world. Huge wonderful pyramids, stone temples, decorated tombs, larger-than-life statues of rulers, tall columns, obelisks, and other memorials can be seen in Egypt wherever you look. Still, many sights are waiting to be freed from the African sands and it remains somewhat mysterious how Egyptian builders could...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Secrets of the Nile, Lady Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves, have joined his formidable mother on a holiday to visit the exotic treasures of Egypt. Their host, Lord Bertram Deeley, is a renowned amateur British collector of antiquities, who has invited his closest friends on a lavish cruise up the Nile to his home at Luxor. But on the first night of their journey, he suddenly collapses after offering a welcome toast, a victim of the lethal...
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Eye of Isis volume 2
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After two Alexandrian fishermen discover a skeleton anchored by a cement weight, Queen Cleopatra charges Tetisheri, her new Eye of Isis, to uncover the identities of the victim and the killers.
47 B.C. Two Alexandrian fishermen come across the body of a skeleton floating upright at the bottom of the sea, anchored in place by a cement weight around his feet. In Alexandria's rough-and-tumble construction trade they call that 'being fitted with a pair...
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Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A candid narrative of how and why the Arab Spring sparked, then failed, and the truth about America's role in that failure and the subsequent military coup that put Sisi in power--from the Middle East correspondent of the New York Times. In 2011, Egyptians of all sects, ages, and social classes shook off millennia of autocracy, then elected a Muslim Brotherhood president. The 2013 military coup replaced him with a vigorous strongman, Abdel Fattah...
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