Picture a Mystery: Elizabeth Peters’ The Curse of the Pharaohs
The Tomb of Seti I, c. 1279 B.C. is considered one of the most beautifully decorated tombs in the Valley of the Kings, in the Nile River Valley, Egypt.
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By Carol Pouliot
In The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters, Victorian Egyptologists Amelia Peabody Emerson and her husband Radcliffe travel from London to the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt, to continue the excavation of a tomb after the previous archeologist died under suspicious circumstances. They travel the Nile River sailing past the Temples of Luxor and Karnak, past Queen Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple at Deir el-Bahri, toward the Temple at Abu Simbel. Readers interested in ancient Egypt will enjoy the luscious descriptions of these wonders.
Photo by Carol Pouliot