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| | Amazon.de: The Hippopotamus Pool: English Books: Elizabeth Peters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Amelia Peabody and her archaeologist husband Radcliffe Emerson are in Thebes and are looking for the tomb of Tetisheri. |
 | | Three parts mystery, one part Egyptology lesson, "The Hippopotamus Pool" is fun reading for anyone who loves a good msytery, Egyptologist or no. Peters' heroine, Amelia Peabody, works alongsdie her husdand Emerson (as an equal, she'll have us know) at archaeological digs in Egypt at the turn of the century. |
 | | The hippopotamus could reprsent both the goddess of childbirth in one turn, and the evil Set, enemy of the sun-god Re, who took the form of the Hippo when he fought Horus, son of Osiris. |
| www.amazon.de /Hippopotamus-Pool-Elizabeth-Peters/dp/0446518336 (2138 words) |
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