Pharaoh

Title Pharaoh
a novel
Original title Faraone delle sabbie
Author Valerio Massimo Manfredi; transl. from the Italian by Christine Feddersen-Manfredi
Publication Macmillan
Size 357p
Language ENG ENG
ISBN 9780230704015
Topics Italian fiction--Historical
Egypt--History--1075-525 BC (Late & Saite periods)
Palestine--History--922-168 B.C.
Italian fiction--Thrillers--Translated into English
Egypt--History--Fiction
Notes In Jerusalem, in 586 BC, the Kingdom of Judah is on the verge of annihilation by the Babylonians. In the chaos, the Prophet Jeremiah rushes to save the sacred Ark of the Covenant. As he locates the preordained hiding place, which will make it impossible to be found, he makes a terrible discovery...The Middle East, in the early 2000s. William Blake, a renowned Egyptologist has been called in to oversee the discovery of an amazing, magnificent and strange tomb of a Pharaoh many miles from the Valley of the Kings, located in a militarily sensitive spot. His research will lead him to an amazing and world shattering discovery concerning Moses and the tribes of the Israelites and their flight from the land of Egypt.
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