The Pyramid - "horror heaped upon stone horror"?

How do you lose a pyramid?

“On a good day, the Pyramid is a morbid wonder...

today, it’s suffocating.

Both inside and out.

I don’t need to be toiling up the claustrophobic lengths of its corridors and galleries, with walls that seem to be sweating under the crushing weight of stone above, to feel it.

Just standing in front of the myriad layers of blocks - horror heaped upon stone horror - hazing upwards to the heavens, is enough.

The scale of its disregard for human misery is breathtaking in itself.

All of which makes it quite hard to believe that pyramids ever came to be lost at all, yet lost some were…

In fact, they keep turning up today.

Astonishingly, a new, unknown pyramid was discovered not so long ago on the

highly excavated Giza plateau, of all places, in the immediate area of the Great

Pyramid of Khufu.

A ruined pyramid, yet three courses of limestone remained. It was only discovered

by accident.

Egypt's ninety-sixth pyramid, built in the time of the Queens’ pyramids, lay hidden by

an asphalt road running alongside Khufu's monument.

If a road can hide a pyramid on an overworked plateau like Giza, what can the

shifting sand of the desert hide?”

- Blog from Anson Hunter, renegade Egyptologist, theorist, phenomenologist and

avid blogger, hero of my novels The Smiting Texts, The Hathor Holocaust and

The Ibis Apocalypse… (Amazon Paperbacks and Kindle).

“An intellect's version of The Mummy...” says Book Reviewer (The Smiting Texts by Roy Lester Pond).

Let's get back to the source

With the popular fiction hunger for 'death stories' in the form of death games (The Hunger Games) vampires (Twilight series), zombies (The Walking Dead) and the like, and news of the ‘darker’ re-boot of the Mummy movie franchise, I have to accept this critic’s comment with some gratitude.

Even though my Egyptology adventure thriller series - now a quartet - offer a very different take. Mummy schlock it isn't. As an Amazon female reader commented: "I loved the intrigue without horror and it was full of interesting twists and turns. I also really enjoyed the characters and their development." 

Of course all these other death stories are relative beginners in the field.

Ancient Egypt owns death, dissolution magical afterlife and supernatural malevolence expressed in curses and execrations.

Let’s get back to the source.

The Reviewer continues: “Roy Lester Pond provides a sumptuous feast on which to devour multiple strands of Egypt's ancient past and potential future.

Initially set out as an ambiguous investigation by the US Homeland Security into a possible terrorist threat culminating in the recent murder of controversial Egyptologist, Anson Hunter's father - the plot is interspersed with a tale of ancient Egypt. An ancient hunter's fate to recapture the Goddess of devastation and entomb himself with her in order to save Egypt is particularly beautiful and lifts the overall book beyond the normal conspiratorial-action-thriller… a wonderfully clever and original story.” - The Truth About Books, UK

Go to the original source of mysterious excitement and danger at Amazon (Kindle and paperback)

Video slideshow: "Egypt's drowned empire". Lake Nasser temples from Aswan to Abu Simbel

See what Egypt, and the world, so nearly lost under the rising waters of Lake Nasser. Research on this and other trips went into my ancient Egypt adventure and mystery thrillers.