By Elizabeth Peters
Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not just inherited her father's fortune, yet she is usually blessed together with his powerful will besides. Now she's headed for Cairo, observed through a lady with a tarnished earlier, to indulge her ardour for Egyptology. Little did she recognize that homicide and a homicidal mummy lay in look ahead to her.
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Manetho’s writings were lost and have come down to us only through the works of later commentators; yet his identification of thirty-one Egyptian dynasties from the first unification of Egypt around 3100 BCE to the conquest by Alexander in 332 has stood the test of time. Manetho’s chronology remained the most widely used method for periodizing pharaonic history until the nineteenth century, when scholars introduced new, and what for them were more helpful, ways to periodize the history of the ancients.
Just as the people of Western Europe looked back to the Roman Empire after its fall, so the peoples of Egypt remembered the glories of the pharaonic centuries even after the last of the pharaohs had gone and even after the ancient language had been lost. For many centuries they tried to re-create this way of life. Egypt’s early conquerors, the Greeks and Romans, brought new ideas and new institutions, but they, too, admired the elegance and stability of ancient Egyptian civilization and wanted to retain much from these centuries.
They also constitute the oldest religious writings and literature of the ancient Egyptians and provide an invaluable window into the spiritual lives and the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians. ” They also reveal just how deeply indebted the great monotheistic religions of the Near East (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) were to the ethical tenets of their Egyptian predecessors. The pyramid texts, as they are known today, stressed filial piety and extolled righteous and orderly behavior. The virtue that they most frequently underscored was encapsulated in the Egyptian word maat, which many have translated as righteousness, justice, and truth.