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Not even Egyptian, so why does Washington Monument appear in THE OBELISK CONSPIRACY?

The Washington Monument features in an article in USAToday.

A chase to find one Egyptian obelisk that can destroy civilization...

“The Washington’s Monument isn’t even from Egypt,” Jennefer said. “In fact, it’s unlike Egyptian models in concept since it was built with thirty-six thousand separate stones including display stones donated from around the world. If we’re going to include that obelisk, we might as well count the millions of faux obelisks in cities, military cenotaphs and graveyards around the world, where they’ve come to symbolise stability, eternity and resurrection.”

“Yet the obelisk plainly borrows from Egypt’s past” Jon said, “and is steeped in Freemasonry symbolism...”

 

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FALCON-HEADED PHARAOH. The all-time most eerie Egyptian coffin?

 

The hawk-headed silver coffin of Shoshenk II (22nd Dynasty, from Tanis)

In striking silver (in its time, as precious as gold).

What dangerous secret did it see beneath the Egyptian desert sands?

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She was brought to life in a hospital scan, 5000 years after dying in ancient Egypt.....

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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E.BOOK EVOLUTION. Today's trend from paper to 'Living e-books' is selling a long-dead civilization in fiction

BRING ANCIENT EGYPT TO LIFE under your fingertips, here at AMAZON KINDLE

UPDATE: Love (ebooks) in the Time of Covid.

It's a sad fact in our cautionary times, but the reality is that only e-books are guaranteed to reach your hands virus free - on your e-reader or iPad, and therefore untouched by any other hands. What better time and place to lose yourself in e-books... especially in the engrossing mystery of ancient Egypt fiction?

Why today I prefer my ancient Egypt E-fiction to the 'dead-tree technology' of my printed books... (though I still love, and am eternally indebted to, print)

I never thought I'd say it.

While I sell fiction in both forms, I get far more satisfaction from selling my series of ancient Egypt adventure thrillers in e-book form than in paperbacks.

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Maybe I'm just over the dead-tree technology of paper publishing. 

Used copies of 50 Shades build a fort in a 2nd hand bookstore - how many trees died in the making of this picture?

There's something alive and immediate about e-books that breathes new life into reading - and being read.

E-books are fresh, for a start - they avoid the glacial slowness of book publishing and literary agencies. E-books seem to me to be the perfect medium for capturing and sharing the quicksilver nature of ideas.

Yet, ironically, there is a permanence about e-books that paper, and even papyrus, could never achieve. 

E-books don't go out of print, either. They are forever. 

They don't yellow, fade, gather mildew, dust and eventually rot.

You can read in the dark, don't need to angle that bedside lamp just right.

You can live a mobile life and have your books.

They don't smell like books, true, but neither do they smell of dust.

In fact there is some of the permanence about e-books that I admire in the ancient Egyptian civilization itself.

So for me it's the perfect way to bring a long dead civilization to life for my readers.

 (Some Egypt escape suggestions while you're self-isolating:)

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Did ancient Egyptian women get a bad press?

Hathor leads Rameses firmly by the hand, Temple of Luxor

Seductive Egypt

Beware the girl from other parts, whose town and family is not known. Do not stare at her when she passes by. Her heart is deep water whose windings one does not know, a whirlpool with unpredictable eddies.

"Ancient Egypt is inextricably bound up with the feminine principle, in my mind at least. I suspect that my intense interest in Egypt is linked with the fatal allure of Egypt’s feminine. And fatal is the word. The mysterious female of Egypt was the most deadly and ruthless of the species and they have a long history to prove it, from Potipihar’s wife, who attempted to seduce and then falsely accused Joseph, to the Egyptianised Greek Cleopatra, who murdered her young brother Ptolemy and seduced Rome’s leadership.

Then of course there is the parade of snaky goddesses on tomb and temple walls, the most dangerous among them being Hathor-Sekhmet, a female who transformed into a marauding lioness in order to destroy humankind. Even in fiction we meet the perfidious Nefer-nefer-nefer in ‘Sinuhe, The Egyptian’..." Anson Hunter, alternative Egyptologist's blog in 'The Smiting Texts'.

Excerpt from 'The Smiting Text'...
 
“There’s no civilization so seductive,” Kalila said.

“Seductive is the word. I find the graphics of ancient Egypt pretty ravishing, I must admit,” Anson said.

She smiled.

“You find them erotic?”

“Hell yes. I can easily imagine myself being grasped possessively by one of those dark-eyed goddesses in the frescoes and reliefs. The art of ancient Egypt ensnares you with its atmosphere of pervasive mystery.”

“Yet there is rarely any lewdness portrayed in Egyptian art,” she commented. “Except for a few scurrilous doodles on ostraca. The Egyptians achieved a sense of sexual tension in far more subtle ways, in the ladies with their diaphanous gowns, painted eyes and gala wigs that sent an erotic signal. Then there were the other coded symbols, the scented delta of a lotus blossom held under a nose, the ducks and geese, or a monkey playing under a chair, the possessive arm slung around the waist of a husband, the intent, very-interested eyes of a goddess taking the pharaoh by the hand. It’s all there, but in the oblique Nilotic way. There is a love poem where the girl bathes in the stream with her beloved and says: ‘I'll go into the water at your bidding and come up with a red fish who will quiver with happiness in my fingers.’”

“I don’t get it,” he said, putting an expression of puzzlement on his face. “I hope you’re going to explain it to me.”

“I’ll do nothing of the sort.”

VIRTUAL TUTANKHAMUN... Virtual Egypt

A virtual global Super Museum one day?

Amazing 3D printed TUTANKHAMUN MUMMY accompanying an exhibition.

Following on from the story of the surreptitious 3D scan of Nefertiti in the Neues Museum in Berlin taken by a pair of artists, here's an example of another perfect replica using modern technology.

Can a virtual global Super Museum be far away?

Or, instead of having a movie room at home, maybe people will one day have their own private museum gallery with a constant rotation of the world's most treasured artefacts.

What ancient Egypt means to fiction readers...

THE IBIS APOCALYPSE Book poster - Egypt action adventure

WARNING: Open this book and you will possess the powers of the earth, the sky and the gods themselves (Book of Thoth)

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What's wrong with this ancient Egyptian temple column?

A minor imperfection in the reconstruction of Philae temple

 

 

Perfection, Philae

Did this son of Rameses find the forbidden Book of Thoth?

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2 thriller plots linked to Thoth, Egypt's god of words, time and magic

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3 mystery suspense thrillers on the shadow-side of ancient Egypt...

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Ancient Egyptian False Door - a magical interface

False door of Ptashepses, British Museum

An Egyptologist/curator Jennefer and an antiquities detective Jon are in "sister professions"...

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THE HATHOR HOLOCAUST - Egypt archaeology adventure thriller (follow up to The Smiting Texts)

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THE HATHOR HOLOCAUST. (An Anson Hunter novel)

Can a rogue Egyptologist stop an ancient Egyptian apocalypse of plague and global scorching? (Available in Amazon Kindle edition and paperback.) 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.

VIRTUAL EGYPT Their journey through 'Virtual Egypt' turned deadly real...

‘VIRTUAL EGYPT’ – A journey through ancient Egypt’s underworld - shocking reality, or deadly Virtual Reality?

Eight very different people are chosen to road test ‘VIRTUAL EGYPT’, an ancient Egyptian virtual reality simulator housed in a complex on the estate of tech billionaire Brandon Drake, a lifelong lover of Egypt’s past.

Then, shockingly, a journeyer dies... really dies...

They are in a race against time and a struggle against the guardians and monsters of the underworld as well as against each other.

Enthralling action adventure fiction that hits the ground running.

"OPEN THIS BOOK and you will possess the powers of earth, sky, and the gods themselves..." Fiction, 'The Ibis Apocalypse' *****5-star Amazon

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Third in the series of Egyptology adventure mystery thrillers after 'The Smiting Texts' and 'The Hathor Holocaust'... SERIES RANGE UPDATE:

WARNING: “Open this book and you will possess the powers of the earth, sky and the gods themselves...”

The Book of Thoth, Egypt’s god of magic, is the most dangerous source of esoteric texts ever written.

Anson Hunter, controversial alternative Egyptologist and theorist, is obsessed with locating it before the wrong people get hold of it.

The texts bring frightening power but also a terrible backlash. Twice in history the contents have come to light – the first time in the reign of Rameses the Great, linked with the Plagues of Egypt and the suffering of the Hebrews, and in 1939 when a German Egyptologist took rubbings of the stone texts to Hitler’s Germany before the horrors of World War II.

Israeli Intelligence and its allies in the USA become alarmed when the Destiny Stela threatens to break into history once again. As they are all too aware, the Stela of Destiny is the Holy Grail for organisations and conspirators with dangerous political and religious agendas, both in the USA and in Europe.

Anson embarks on an investigation, pursued by enemies and shadowed by striking Israeli Mossad agent Zara Margolin and suspicious Egyptian authorities, in a hunt that covers USA, UK and secret archaeological sites in Egypt.

‘The Ibis Apocalypse’ is a danger-fraught adventure that unfolds against the background of ancient Egypt’s enthralling legend and mythology.

An Egypt fiction TRILOGY or a SERIES?

Mythology-based Egypt mystery thriller trilogy

The Anson Hunter archaeology-based Egypt thriller series

Can a team in sister professions, Egyptologist & detective, solve the mystery?

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An archaeologist and a detective are in "kindred professions" - investigating mythology-linked murders

Meet them at Amazon - in this mysterious trilogy

THE TEAM: A unique combination of talents who work in 'kindred  professions'  - a detective and an archaeologist.

Jennefer is a bright young curator of Egyptian antiquities at the British Museum. 

Jon is an antiquities detective with the Metropolitan Arts and Antiques Unit.

He thinks she's too logical and "likes to arrange all the facts, carefully labelled, like a museum display."

She thinks: "he has the annoying habit of leaping to the impossible solution first, just to get it out of the way." 

Together they investigate cases of mysterious artefacts and mythology-linked murders that require their combined skills to solve.

A TRILOGY OF ADVENTURE MYSTERY THRILLERS:-

THE EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY MURDERS

THE OBELISK PROPHECY

THE EGYPTIAN CROCODILE CURSE

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TRILOGY IN 1 EDITION

Penetrating mystery and conspiracy beneath Egypt's sands

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.