Title:Pharaoh
Author:Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Genre:Historic Fiction
Comments:Just a few more pages and i am finished... :)
After three thousand years,an young archeologists Blake was invited to work on a very interesting case,the tomb of a pharaoh lies in the middle of the desert.Blake was never on a such strange case,he never saw something like this before in his life.Blake excellently finds an under ground tunnel that leads him to the kingdom Babylonia.Maddox his boss does not want to tell Blake in what country he is, because it is a top secret mission.Blake finds out that he is in Iraq an that the whole expedition is illegal and that Maddox only wants to sell the ark , get the money and run away .Blake wants to save his work and publish it.He gets help from a photographer named Sara,he falls in love with here.Finally Blake has opened the ark and inside the ark lied a body of a Pharaoh, he finds a hieroglyph on which it said "in this ark lies the body of Moses". Blake is in shock, he knows that if Maddox sells it that nobody will know about Moses and the whole expedition.When he told Sara about the hieroglyph she told him not to tel a word to Maddox because he will kill him.He didn't listen , he didn't tell Maddox that it is Moses but he told him that on the hieroglyphs there was a curs on which it said: " you will have 24h of darkens and bad luck" .Blake told him that because on television he heard that tomorrow will be a eclipse and the day after will be a terrible storm.Maddox told him that he is going to sell it and he doesn't care, Blake hoped that Maddox will get scared and leave the Pharaoh alone and that he will not sell it.
We will see what will happen , will Maddox get scared and leave it alone or will he sell it ...?
When it comes to Ancient Egypt, I go crazy. It is very interesting and educational. Especially when they make a book out of it. Where ever you got that book, may I please read it, because that summary was soooo interesting that I just have to read it :D
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