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"Many of the great museums of the world were proof of it. In a bid to ward off a pandemic, Amenhotep, father of Akhenaten, had feverishly produced hundreds upon hundreds of statues of the lioness goddess Sekhmet, seen as the spreader of pestilence and the vengeful eye of Ra. He was attempting to placate her and ward off a terrible blight..."
WARNING! ANCIENT
GLOBAL THREAT… the impossible graffito message turns up in a newly found
Egyptian tomb, along with a modern biohazard symbol.
Who sent it?
Is missing archaeology
team member Lucas Burrows trapped in the ancient past during an age of terror?
What mysterious
plague has hit the population of Egypt in the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III
and his young co-regent Akhenaten? Why is it seen as a judgement by the angry
sun god Ra?
Lucas, a physician
and World Health Organisation expert on pandemics, must find its source and the
antidote in time to save the ancient past and the future.
Especially when his lover, the lustrous
Italian-born Egyptologist Giulietta, is exposed to the deadly contagion.
