“Careful, there’s an explosive PowerPoint presentation in there,” the Egyptologist said as US Homeland Security grabbed his laptop case at the Airport...

‘THEY INTERCEPTED him as he came out of Baltimore-Washington Airport, two men wearing suits and an air of officialdom like a brisk cologne... ’So begins The Smiting Texts and the launch of an independent Egyptologist Anson Hunter with theories of hidden dangers today from Egypt’s mysterious past....

Ancient Egypt is not about to rise again and clobber us, Egyptologists assure us. Even though the remains of the pharaohs have survived the aeons and the peculiar lustre of eternity still clings to the remnants of Egypt's past. Ancient Egypt is a dead civilization, they say. However, as 'The Smiting Texts' affair shows, the ancient Egyptians did believe in supranormal power - smiting rituals and execration texts, expressed through pottery, papyrus, bone and architecture. Remote killing, you see, was a state instrument of power. The priests would write execration texts on the sides of jars and then utter the words of threat formulae, before ritually smashing the jars in order to bring enemy nations to their knees. Nobody doubted that enemies of the state would weaken or simply be flattened, knocked down dead as if by an atomic blast...

The Smiting Texts... just the beginning of a series of explosive hidden dangers from the ancient past that call for the arcane knowledge of the renegade indepedent Egyptologist and investigator Anson Hunter. NOW an 11-novel series on Amazon - paperback and Kindle by ROY LESTER POND

Egyptian archaeology and mystery fiction - novels that focus on exploring the mysteries, mythology and secrets of ancient Egypt.