In the spring of 1924, two years after the discovery of King Tutankhamen’s tomb, Howard Carter barges into the British Consulate in Cairo and demands diplomatic intervention to renew his Egyptian authorities to renew his excavation permits which were revoked after the Department of Antiquities discovered several infractions in the tomb’s catalogues. Some items from Tutankhamen’s tomb were never logged and were later found hidden in a wine case in another tomb.
In His fifth novel, Ahmed Mourad delves into the murky waters of one of the best kept secrets of Ancient Egypt, cleverly hidden right in front of our eyes, in the holiest book of Egyptian civilization; a secret that may forever change your understanding of a key moment in Egyptian history.