Egypt 1570 BC
Scrolls describe a squirreling away of special temple objects for safety before a war. Mystifying directions for the hiding place were written with an incomprehensible code (by a mage) but after some feverish media coverage, the challenge is on to crack it.
Bear in mind that mage is the root for magic, image and imagination (the consummator) so, not so easy.
What is this temple treasure? Lots of wild ideas but the popular view is magical objects.
Julia, who is an emerging artist, wasn’t interested at first. Too many other things on her mind but then she inherits an heirloom with a bizarre connection. When she meets Joe, an archaeologist working in the British Museum, this cauldron of circumstances begins to bubble.
A fascinating journey into the inexplicable, on the trail of a distant mystery.
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Garth Meaney explains what inspired this novel:
Two things: The first was an interest in a particular moment in Egypt’s history when they were defeated and occupied by a foreign force, the Hyksos. The second was to consider what the priesthood would likely do about the safety of holy objects before they marched in.
I’m guessing but we can safely assume that they hid them away somewhere safe and sealed them up!
The Hyksos ruled from Memphis for 50 years before they were thrown out again. Nearly two generations in those days – time enough to forget but a record would have been kept somewhere. This book is my idea of what happened.
