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The Serpent on the Crown (Amelia Peabody, Book 17)

A beneficial relic has been brought to the Emerson domestic overlooking the Nile. yet greater than heritage surrounds this golden likeness of a forgotten king, for it's acknowledged early dying will befall a person who possesses it.

The girl who implores the well known relations of archaeologists and adventurers to just accept the cursed statue insists the ill-gotten treasure has already killed her husband. extra, she warns, until it truly is lower back to the tomb from which it used to be stolen, extra would definitely die. With the realm eventually at peace—and with Egypt's old mysteries opened to them as soon as more—Amelia Peabody and her household are plunged right into a typhoon of secrets and techniques, treachery, and homicide by way of a widow's unusual tale or even stranger request. each one step towards the reality finds a brand new peril, suggesting this curse is not any mere superstition. And the subsequent sufferer of the small golden king might be any member of the close-knit clan—perhaps even Amelia herself.

Reassessing Suez 1956

The nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 caused one of many gravest foreign crises because the moment international struggle. The 50th anniversary of the Suez difficulty in 2006 provided a terrific chance to revisit and re-evaluate this seminal episode in post-war historical past. even supposing a lot has been written on Suez, this learn offers clean views by way of reflecting the newest study from top foreign gurus at the hindrance and its aftermath.

Ancient Egyptian, Assyrian & Persian Costumes & Decorations

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'We have no king but Christ': Christian Political Thought in Greater Syria on the Eve of the Arab Conquest (c.400-585)

Drawing on little-used assets in Syriac, as soon as the lingua franca of the center East, Philip wooden examines how, on the shut of the Roman Empire, Christianity carried with it new origin myths for the peoples of the close to East that remodeled their self-identity and their relationships with their rulers.