Thursday, November 24, 2016

An ancient Egyptian false door, a vanished archaeology team member. TEXT MESSAGES FROM ETERNITY




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An ancient Egyptian false door, an impossible warning from a vanished archaeology team member.
Is missing archaeology team member Lucas Burrows trapped in Egypt’s ancient past during an age of terror – and sending warning messages to today through the archaeological layers of time?
‘WARNING! ANCIENT GLOBAL THREAT…’ the scratched graffiti message appears in a newly found Egyptian tomb, along with a modern biohazard symbol.
Who sent it?
What mysterious plague has hit the population of Egypt in the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his young co-regent, the sun-struck 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. Can he warn her in time and save her - and can they ever hope to be reunited?



“Roy Lester Pond joins my favourite Egypt authors like Christian Jacq.”
“A furious pace keeps the reader engrossed.”

‘TEXT MESSAGES FROM ETERNITY’ expands ‘THE RA VIRUS’ with a new additional Part 2 in the story ‘THE ATEN SCOURGE’


EGYPT SAFER to go than stay home? Whet your appetite with some mysterious Egypt fiction here...


Wednesday, November 23, 2016

‘Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad...’ Madly brave. FREE. THE HERO VIRUS

FREE for 3 DAYS A non-Egypt apocalyptic novel set in Australia's outback. Kindle

THE HERO VIRUS "5 stars for being so different from other apocalypse books." GOODREADS

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"What an interesting story. Reading their blogs and each viewpoint was unique. I felt like I was with them on their journey.

5 stars for being so different from other apocalypse books."

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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Saturday, November 12, 2016

The MUMMIES ARE COMING for children (and adults)

Nigel-Fletcher Jones cites another example of Mummymania with a new children's picture book 'How I became a Mummy' that tackles the human side of mummies... Looks like gruesome fun.

But it's not the first.

The humanising movement is well under way with 'The Princess Who Lost her Scroll of the Dead' - a pre-teen novel with photos of artefacts. 

A young princess in the tomb wakes up to find that a royal scribe has tricked her and replaced her priceless Book of the Dead with an empty rolled up scroll.  How will she negotiate the twists and turns and dangerous challenges of the underworld without the protective spells  in her magical 'passport' to eternity?

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And of course the 'humanised mummy' is already here for adults
in the story of a mysterious female mummy - the adult novel "THE EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY MURDERS" where we can't help rooting for the mummy in spite of the chaos she is causing.

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The ancient EGYPTIAN civilization and technology “SPIKE” - a monumental enigma

What came to spark the stratospheric rise of ancient Egyptian civilization?

From a land and age of mysteries, this for me is still the greatest enigma of all.


How did an ancient agrarian society suddenly flower into technological mastery – the Egyptian dynastic civilization suddenly arriving fully formed it seems, employing advanced writing, architecture and sculpture, producing the first great buildings in stone, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, mummification...

Is the 'spike' the most intriguing mystery of all?

Like my fictional alternative Egyptologist Anson Hunter, I am not a great fan of Atlantean influencers. 



If they existed, the Egyptians, assiduous record keepers, were exceedingly ungrateful about their benefactors, leaving not a jot of thanks.



Yet there stands the Great Pyramid and other achievements with all their dizzying external and internal symmetries... perplexing Egyptology (and inspiring fantasy sci-fi fiction like this novel on Amazon Kindle).


Thursday, November 10, 2016

An Egyptologist with a bow, a missing arrow, a searching dog... 'The SARCOPHAGUS'

'Snakeback', the archaeologist's pet Rhodesian Ridgeback or African Lion Dog

Excerpt from the Egyptian mystery adventure "The SARCOPHAGUS":

Wilson Ryder bent his bow and shot an arrow into the desert and watched it shrink in the sky. Snakeback ran after it and he followed. The dog ran on. He hurried after it. How far had the arrow traveled? 
They came to the spot where he was sure the arrow must have fallen. 
Snakeback was standing on the spot, looking puzzled. 
Ryder looked ahead and saw a dark-haired girl holding his arrow, felt the challenge of her stare, then watched her walk away from him, carrying it to the cliffs. 
She climbed the rocky cliff path to the tomb entrance.
She disappeared into the dark mouth of the tomb. 
Ryder and Snakeback followed...

Neith, Egyptian Mistress of the Bow and Ruler of Arrows

Built to hunt lions and run all day without a drink, the Ridgeback with a snake of raised fur on its back.
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Monday, November 7, 2016

What does fiction's alternative Egyptologist make of alien theories?

Alien Egypt stories on the Internet

(Excerpt - "THE SMITING TEXTS")

“YOU WANT me to what?” Anson Hunter said at the meeting.

“Help us find what appears to be an ancient weapon,” she said.

“Ancient weapon?”

“I know it sounds incredible,” the academic said.

“It does, even in my alternative, parallel universe.”

“Yet, astonishingly, this is what our authorities have been forced to consider.”

“You’re going to have to unpack that a bit,” he said.

The man in the big blue suit, who bulked up the small meeting table, and who sat flanked by young, careful-faced men, spoke up.

“Very few of us believe in remote killing, of the kind you’ve been describing, anyway, but we all believe in remote listening. We have intelligence that something ancient, called ‘the mother of revenge’ is being levelled against our country from the land of the Nile.”

“Maybe it’s a pharaonic submarine,” Anson said helpfully.

“Why not?” Dr Melinda Skilling said with a mocking smile, “some alternative theorists seem willing to believe that the ancient Egyptians possessed helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and armoured tanks, but submarines probably weren’t of much use in the shallower reaches of the Nile.”

This Egyptologist could dig in more ways than one, he observed.

He understood her allusion.

“You mean those mysterious symbols under a lintel in the Temple of Osiris in Abydos that seem to show an arsenal of modern weapons?” he said. “I may be alternative, but I’m not a crank. Nor am I a fan of aliens, or of pyramid and sphinx builders from Atlantis, although I like the way they exasperate Egyptologists. I’m sure there’s a more mundane explanation for the symbols and so I’ll leave that to you.”

“I don’t do mundane, Anson. I’d rather be working on the exhibition I’m curating than doing mundane, but the intelligence wires are humming and it’s apparently alarmed our government enough to request professional advice.”

“Then why ask me?”

“You’re special, not only because of your grasp of arcane Egyptian knowledge and practice, but because of your standpoint. I must confess that mainstream academics, restrained by what has been termed the ‘agnostic reflex’, are somewhat in the position of outsiders looking in, careful to keep an objective distance from Egyptian religion, mystical texts and esoteric practices. You, on the other hand, are a phenomenologist, one who believes that you must grant value and credibility to the sacred and engage with it experientially in order to appreciate it fully. I have a certain sympathy for that position.”

A certain sympathy. Was she trying to be nice? Perhaps. She’d certainly earned points from him for her candour.

But the blunt instrument in the big blue suit didn’t try for points. His words came down on Anson like a mallet.

“Frankly, to many people you’re just a wild theorist. And that gives you a lot more freedom to operate in. Nobody listens to you - and nobody watches you. We can hide behind you.”

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Friday, November 4, 2016

PRE-TEEN ancient Egypt fiction - Kindle their imaginations

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IMHOTEP means ‘he comes in peace’... a bit ‘alien sounding’?

Advanced genius who built Egypt's first ever pyramid - the step pyramid

"A satellite eye in the sky... a dangerous hidden secret beneath Egypt's sand" *****5 star Amazon US

(excerpt) 

The Ufologist said. "Some are convinced that Imhotep was the original ancient alien. Don’t you think that there is something a bit alien about the imp-like figures of Imhotep in the world’s museums, showing him as a tiny sage seated on a chair with a scroll across his knee and his elongated skull extruded inside a skullcap? Then there is the curious meaning of his name. Imhotep means ‘The one who comes in peace.’ Isn’t that canonically the message communicated by friendly, and sometimes deceptive, visitors from the stars, in countless science fiction stories and movies… ‘we come in peace’?”

"EGYPT EYES: A groundbreaking mystery thriller novel featuring the blogs and photos of renegade Egyptologist Anson Hunter.



With his luminous intelligence, thousands of years ahead of his time, Imhotep must have appeared as a being who had dropped out of the sky to early generations… designer and builder of the first great monument in stone, the step pyramid, deified after his death and revered by the later Greeks and Romans. 
All this and Imhotep fathered medicine, was considered a wizard, governed as Vizier and held high sacred office...
It was also said that Imhotep’s father was the creator god Ptah and his mother was the sky goddess Nut... 

How I imagine Imhotep
ANSON HUNTER investigative Egypt thrillers
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Thursday, November 3, 2016

Mysterious eyes of ancient Egypt...




What secret had the satellite eye in the sky seen under Egypt's sands?


Dr Constance Somers, space archaeologist, once used satellite eyes in the sky to explore Egypt's hidden treasures. Now Anson Hunter was to be her eyes on the ground... but what is her dangerous secret?

"Egypt Eyes" - thriller fiction with Egyptian photos and a renegade archaeologist's blog; an adventure with a difference.





Tuesday, November 1, 2016

'THE POISON QUEEN' Did Cleopatra really die...?

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Did Cleopatra really die as history tells?

What if the 'queen of poisons' took a brew (like Shakespeare's Juliet) that merely gave her the ‘borrow’d likeness of shrunk death'?


Revelation, mythology and ancient evil in a startling adventure.

A group of mysteriously chosen investigators is brought together and driven blindfolded in Land Cruisers to a lost site in Egypt…

An historical fantasy writer, a young female Egyptologist, a cold-case detective, a documentary film-maker, an historical scholar…

Then the darkness turns deadly.

The sanctuary of an immortal queen.
Mortal dangers for those who penetrate its secrets