Author’s Note
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Author’s NoteMany Greeks visited ancient Egypt, but it was the Romans who began collecting Egyptian antiquities and Sphinxes and statues of the Pharaohs adorned the Palaces of the Roman Emperors.
Demand for antiques from Europe in the early 1830s encouraged tomb robbing. In this way the great collections of the British Museum, the Louvre, Berlin, etc., were built up. The Valley of the Kings, however, aroused only a lukewarm interest until in 1922, when Howard Carter, financed by Lord Carnarvon, discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun.
On my first visit to Luxor in the ’20s, I met Howard Carter at the tomb and saw the dazzling display of treasures it contained.
The magic I felt then in Luxor was intensified on my second visit, over thirty years later, into a spiritual awareness, which I have tried to portray in this novel.
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