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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Egyptian: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Mika Waltari's "The Egyptian" tells us the story of one physician of ancient Egypt, Sinuhe, set against the background of the reign of the fourth pharaoh Amenhotep, whose attempt to impose monotheism on his polytheistic country was one of the strangest and most fascinating experiments of early civilization. |
 | | Waltari bring us some of the people that have only existed in the pages of history books -- Akhenaton himself, his incredibly beautiful wife Nefertiti, his scheming, conniving mother Queen Taia, the boy king Tut, and Horemheb, the military general who became pharaoh after Akhenaton's death plunged the country into near anarchy. |
 | | Waltari is not only a great novelist but a fine historian, and he kept the background scrupulously accurate. |
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