The Quarter
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These recently discovered stories by Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz take us deep into the beating...
Short Stories Egypt
Le Lotus bleu (The Blue Lotus) (Tintin #5)
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Picking up where he left off in the Egyptian adventure Cigars of the Pharaoh, Tintin travels to...
Jordan Binkerd (567 KP) rated The Scorpion King 3: Battle For Redemption (2012) in Movies
Oct 27, 2019
-The Mummy Returns: At the end of his life, the Scorpion King leads an army to take over and subjugate the world, aided by Anubis, which proves that the Egyptian gods are, you know, gods.
-The Scorpion King: Mathayus is ostensibly the last living Akkadian, and leads a revolt against an evil king who....wants to take over and subjugate the world. Some tragic irony there, knowing where he ends up.
-The Scorpion King II: Rise of a Warrior: There's a whole kingdom of Akkadians, and Mathayus leads a revolt against the general who killed both his father and the rightful King, usurping the throne. Given that just a decade or two later the entire race has been wiped out, maybe putting the rightful heir back on the throne didn't end well?
Which brings us to this movie, featuring numerous human characters with the names of the Egyptian pantheon (maybe named in homage to their gods, but it feels like the idea is that these men will be mistaken for God's by myth and legend) and doubles down on the "conquest is evil" theme. Mathayus has lost his queen and kingdom from the first film to plague, reduced to being a mercenary again. The action primarily happens in Egypt and.... Cambodia? Vietnam? Thailand? Somewhere around there, with little explanation of how the characters go that distance. This just makes the whole thing more inconsistent and convoluted. I shudder to think about the damage the next one will do....
Sekhmet: Transformation in the Belly of the Goddess
Nicki Scully, Normandi Ellis and Hank Wesselman
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A shamanic ritual with the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet to bring about alchemical transformation at the...
Imagining the Past: Historical Fiction in New Kingdom Egypt
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Five hundred years before Homer immortalized the Trojan Horse, the ancient Egyptians had already...
Alison Pink (7 KP) rated The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) in Books
Jan 15, 2018
This book was great! It was a satisfying ending to the series, despite the fact that it did leave things open to being picked up in the future. (Maybe he'll do something like he did with Percy Jackson & then Heroes of Olympus?!?) Again Sadie & Carter are such likable, believable, well-developed characters. The things they go through are extraordinary without a doubt, but they are so easy to identify with...which I'm sure helps with the appeal of the series to younger readers. But just because that is the target audience, doesn't mean an adult won't enjoy it.
The book is full of history, love, battles, & courage that it is very easy to get wrapped up in.
The War That Never Was
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For the very first time, "The War That Never Was" tells the fascinating story of a secret war fought...
Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism
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For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark - a...
London Curiosities: The Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird and Wonderful Places
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London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies an undercroft...
The Medieval Calendar: Locating Time in the Middle Ages
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The intricacies of the medieval calendar are examined in this sumptuously illustrated volume,...