Saturday, March 29, 2014

Thursday, March 27, 2014

The radiation scan - at a dose lethal for the living - blasted through her linen windings... 'The Egyptian Mythology Murders'


The Egyptian Mythology Murders - fiction on Amazon Kindle



The radiation scan - at a dose lethal for the living - blasted through her linen windings. It was like a penetration of sunlight warming the bones after the ache of the desert night.

The CT machine hummed. A spinning cylinder curved around the mummy’s head like a night sky arching over Egypt.

The sand-dry cells of the body, spread out in an undulating landscape on the CT tray, stirred in a sudden breath.

Life! Resurgent life! It eddied, thickened, mounted in force, blowing, gusting, then blasting through the mummy like a desert sand storm...

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Seshat - 'the Internet goddess' features in 'The Forbidden Glyphs', Egypt Fiction

Egyptologist Anson Hunter starts receiving intriguing emails from a female who calls herself Seshat...

 Seshat - 'the Internet goddess' features in 'The Forbidden Glyphs', Egypt Fiction


Seshat… Egyptian goddess of the Internet.



In a curious loop of time, the ancient Egyptian goddess Seshat has found new recognition today. Referred to as the ‘Silicon Goddess’ or ‘Glass Cat’, she is seen as the spirit of the Internet, computers, operating systems, software, web and game architecture, telecommunications, electronic networks and knowledge systems.



Originally, Seshat was ancient Egypt’s goddess of writing, chief librarian and keeper of the forbidden scrolls of Thoth, goddess of knowledge, architecture, science, mathematics, astronomy, reckoner of years and of foreign booty as well as a keeper of history and memories. 



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Fiction that puts the mysterious pieces of ancient Egypt together - on Amazon Kindle

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

‘A museum is a dangerous place...’ from The Hathor Holocaust

The British Museum
Prince Khaemwaset, seeker of forbidden knowledge?


‘A MUSEUM is a dangerous place.’

Sir Flinders Petrie, pioneer British Egyptologist, first said those words, but today Anson was thinking them.

A man had followed him to the British Museum.

Who was he?

Petrie had been thinking about another kind of danger when he’d made his famous remark about the dangers of museums. The founder of modern scientific Egyptology had been alluding to the manner in which the early Cairo museum had dealt with a royal mummy fragment found at Abydos, a single, bandaged arm, covered in jewels, the only remains of First Dynasty king Zer.

The curators took the jewels and tossed the arm way, the earliest royal mummy remains ever to come to light. It was a mummy horror story to eclipse any devised by the most febrile imagination, Anson had always thought, but right at that moment his mind was on the other worry.

Anson went up the steps and between the Ionic-style columns into the building. He passed through a crowded reception hall to arrive in the Great Court beyond.

Above the court, a tessellated glass and steel roof spread out overhead like a vast, glowing net, catching clouds, blue sky and a spirit of illumination, while the round, central building swelled like an ivory tower of learning. He crossed the clean bright space before heading left to the door of the Egyptian section.

Inside the dimmer light of the hall, a group of school children crowded around the Rosetta Stone in its glass display case. Two little black girls peered inside, their heads close together as they examined the stone, their hair braided in cornrows. An African look, he thought. It linked his thoughts to Africa’s greatest river, the Nile, and to Egypt’s irrigated fields that bounded it and made Egypt the breadbasket of the ancient world.

He made for the sculpture gallery.

Egypt, both divinely monumental and naturalistic, surrounded him. Two statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, powerfully formed in dark granodiorite, flanked the entranceway to a hall, granting admittance, and inside, as stone slid by, other familiar sights came into view, a red granite lion with charmingly crossed forepaws, and further on, the statue of the Chief Steward Senenmut tenderly holding the daughter of Queen Hatshepsut, the little princess Neferure, on his lap - the child wrapped within his cloak and her face peeping out - then a soaring, crowned head of Pharaoh Amenhotep in the background. And people everywhere, creating a sound of buzzing like voices in a cathedral at prayer time.

But he barely saw or heard them. He paused at a figure standing on a pedestal near a wall on the right hand side, almost overshadowed by a colossal granite torso of Rameses the Great in the centre of the hall.

Khaemwaset, the priest-prince and magician.

Anson confronted the figure. The sculpture depicted the prince in a pleated kilt, stepping forward while holding a pair of emblematic staves at his sides. The conglomerate stone must have presented a technical challenge to the sculptor as it was shot through with multi-coloured pebbles. It made Khaemwaset look as if galaxies were exploding out of his chest.

A museum label said:

Red breccia standing figure... one of the favourite sons of Rameses II, the legendary Khaemwese…

The label used a variant spelling of the name Khaemwaset.

He looked up at the face. Intelligent, sensitive features, faintly saddened. An air as haunted as the face of the sphinx.

Anson silently interrogated the statue.

Open up, Khaemwaset. As one renegade to another, what do you really know? As a seeker of forbidden power, did you open the sanctuary of Hathor, provoking fiery destruction, plagues and pestilence on your father Rameses and his kingdom? Legend tells that you found the magical Book of Thoth, so why not the disc of Ra, too?

Egyptologists agreed on one thing. Prince Khaemwaset was a kindred spirit. ‘The world’s first Egyptologist’ they called him, as a result of the prince’s peculiar antiquarian interests. Khaemwaset lived a few thousand years before his time and had a fondness for digging up and restoring ancient tombs and monuments in the Memphis and Saqqara areas, some already more than a thousand years old at the time of his attentions. He did this he said, because of his ‘love of the ancient days and the noble ones who dwelt in antiquity and the perfection of everything they made’.

But another reason was his love and pursuit of secret, forbidden power. This led to his being venerated by future generations as a great magician and remembered in a cycle of stories. Khaemwaset, seeker of illumination, put a good official complexion on his activities by dedicating the exploration and conservation work to the honour of his vainglorious father, Rameses, yet he did not shy away from leaving his own name recorded on the monuments.

“I did not expect to see an alternative theorist looking up to the figure of an Egyptologist with such respect,” a voice said, interrupting his contemplation.

A man joined him and shared his inspection of Khaemwaset.

He was a Middle Eastern man with tight, curly hair and a widow’s peak and he had a whiff of tobacco smoke on his leather jacket.

He was the man who had shadowed him to the museum.


THIS HALLOWEEN, a wonderfully macabre ancient Egyptian mummy

British Museum
Did the ancient Egyptians go to their graves resting on a broken reed, believing in a non-existent eternity? 

He sometimes wondered if they had achieved some sort of ghostly existence within the withered husks of their remains, suspended, like their bodies, in stasis, where the relative motions of space and time no longer operated...

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

"A good read for Egyptophiles". Hathor's Holocaust

**** on Goodreads


"HATHOR'S HOLOCAUST" second in the series of Ancient Egyptian adventure mystery thrillers.

Can a renegade Egyptologist stop the re-activation of an ancient apocalypse of plague, pestilence and global scorching?

An apocalyptic danger has arisen from the ancient past in Egypt today bringing a threat to the Middle East and also to the West - of plague, pestilence, fiery destruction and global scorching.
Anson Hunter, controversial, alternative Egyptologist, theorist, blogger and phenomenologist is the hero of this historical adventure novel with a rich mythological vein. Followed by Western Intelligence organizations, shadowed by a mysterious androgyne assassin, he must race to avert a crisis in a quest spanning USA, Britain and Egypt. Who is behind the plan to trigger an apocalypse? Neo-religionists, Torchbearers with a dangerous New Age agenda, Christian dispensationalists who are eager to bring on the 'end times' or radical Islamists with a hatred of the West?
In mythology, Ra Egypt's sun god, hurled an execration upon a rebellious humankind and, in a hot rage, despatched the scorching Eye of Ra, a holocaust sun in the form of the goddess Sekhmet, to destroy them. A marauding lioness, her breath spread pestilence and plague and her claws and teeth death as she swept through Egypt in an orgy of killing. Then Ra had second thoughts and halted her apocalypse.
But the execration had been uttered and it was always feared that the inherently unstable agent of destruction - the Female Soul With Two Faces - would one day return to finish off what she had started, cleansing the earth.

Monday, March 17, 2014

"WHAT IF...?" 7 hooks of Egypt-based adventure thriller novels (UPDATE)


What if a powerful execration or curse used by the ancient Egyptian state as an esoteric weapon of destruction is activated against America today?

What if the scorching power of an ancient holocaust sun threatened today's world?
What if a stone book of power kept making its appearance in history at times of war and catastrophe and it emerged today?
What if an assembly of the world's top Egyptologists were taken over by invaders dressed as gods... to bleed them of their secrets?


What if satellite technology found a dangerous secret under the sands of Egypt?
What if conspirators raced to find Egypt's Lost Library of forbidden secrets and technology?


What if an afterlife conspiracy could shatter the belief systems of the world?

What if  you found out today on Amazon Kindle?
UPDATE RANGE (Now 11 titles): AMAZON KINDLE/PAPERBACK

Saturday, March 15, 2014

***** Enjoyed any of these Egypt titles on Amazon? Love you to take a moment to rank your favourites!


The Roy Lester Pond fiction collection on AMAZON KINDLE

See The Anson Hunter series and my stand alone titles

Eye in the sky sees dangerous secrets beneath Egypt's sands. Adventure fiction

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EGYPT EYES - “Be my eyes in Egypt,” she said. The celebrated young Egyptologist and space archaeologist Dr Constance Somers had once explored ancient Egypt’s lost treasures using satellite imagery. But now she is legally blind. She hires controversial, alternative Egyptologist Anson Hunter to be her guide on a Nile cruise. ‘Show me the hidden Egypt of your imagination,’ she says. But does she have a darker purpose, planning to use his unique skills to help her penetrate a secret and dangerous site that she found?

And why are agents of the US National Reconnaissance Office, a secret Intelligence agency in charge of satellites and overhead security, suddenly taking an interest in the work of the space archaeologist? Has she made a discovery in her satellite archaeology that has global security ramifications? Anson must face unexpected enemies at every turn and use his skills to survive the dangers of a lost underground sanctuary as he tries to unlock its shattering secret. A groundbreaking adventure and mystery fiction with an Egyptologist’s blogs and photos.


Ancient Egypt's impact on today - in adventure fiction








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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Fiction that "deserves a far wider audience than the Egyptology community"...






"Roy Lester Pond provides a sumptuous feast on which to devour multiple strands of Egypt's ancient past and potential future." Truth about Books


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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Why does Intelligence call in an Egyptologist as US faces unknown threat?

Conspiracies involving the dangerous secrets of ancient Egypt

Anson Hunter is an alternative Egyptologist who theorises about dangers from the ancient past.

How do his investigations attract the attention of US Homeland Security, Mossad, British Intelligence - as well as Egyptian authorities, US New Age groups,  neo-pagan organisations and fundamentalist Christian organisations?


Discover why in the Egypt adventure series on Kindle and in paperback.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Adventure fiction that spans the archaeological sites of Egypt

Come under the spell of ancient Egypt...
Begin with the Smiting Texts, introducing fiction's witty, problem-solving Egyptologist Anson Hunter.  Followed by a series of novels as well as a range of separate, stand-alone fiction titles that span the mysteries of ancient Egypt.

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