Internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz transports us back
thousands of years and immerses us in the sights and sounds of
day-to-day life in a vanished desert culture.
Their civilization has inspired myriad films, books, pieces of art,
myths, and dreams, and they built grand monuments that still stagger the
imagination five thousand years later. But who were these people? Mertz
ushers us into their homes, workplaces, temples, and palaces to give us
an intimate view of the everyday worlds of royals and commoners alike.
Displaying the unparalleled descriptive power, unerring eye for detail,
keen insight, and trenchant wit that have made the novels she writes (as
Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels) perennial New York Times
best-sellers, Barbara Mertz brings a buried civilization to vivid life,
taking us closer than ever before to the people of a great lost culture
so different from--yet so surprisingly similar to--our own.