The Third Translation: A NovelAn ancient mystery, a hidden language, and the secrets of a bizarre Egyptian sect collide in modern-day London in this ingenious novel of seduction, conspiracy, and betrayal alter Rothschild is an American Egyptologist living in London and charged by the British Museum with the task of unlocking the ancient riddle of the Stela of Paser, one of the last remaining real-life hieroglyphic mysteries in existence today. The secrets of the stela-a centuries-old funerary stone-have evaded scholars for thousands of years due to the stela's cryptic reference to a third translation: |
Contents
THE FLOOD IS MIGHTY | |
ZENOBIA | |
THE CANADANAUT | |
CRYPTOGRAPHY | |
SETH | |
THE MINDS OF INSECTS | |
MUSIC | |
DETERMINATIVES | |
THE BLUE | |
SHABTI | |
WHAT TO LISTEN FOR 16 EVENT HORIZON 17 DUNG BEETLES | |
THE WEDJAT | |
THE HEART SCARAB | |
THE MASK OF THOTH 26 REGRET | |
AUTHORS NOTE ON THE HISTORY OF THE STELAOF | |
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