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| Almost impossible to fake |
For Anson Hunter, there was no mistaking the
maker’s mark on these pieces. Typology, style, material, craftsmanship, they
all told him this was genuine and immensely old. But there was something else
he had come to trust. The effect genuine Egyptian art had on him. It produced
an aura almost impossible to fake and it had to do with the fact that Egyptian
art was never art for its own sake. It was wrought magic, infused with the
sacred power of the force the Egyptians called heka.
He gently touched an ornamental collar of
turquoise stones, a sacred necklace called the menat. He spread the flat of a palm against the cool blue-green
droplets of stone and it seemed to his excited senses that he felt the crackle
of a grid of power. The stones now smouldered. What holy or unholy divinity had
infused them with its forces?
From the Egypt adventure series - Amazon Kindle and paperback
