The Egyptologist

Oh, what a tangled web we weave! THE EGYPTOLOGIST is an extraordinary, lush piece of literature that trots across the mummy-crazed globe of the 1920s and witnesses Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter's seminal discovery of the vast riches of Tutankhamen's un-pillaged virginal tomb. But, as in Caldwell a......more

Fantastic book! One that operates on so many levels... Character study; satire; mystery/thriller. An Egyptologist goes off to find some legendary tomb shortly after WWI. Through his correspondence with his fiance (the daughter of his financier), we learn much about the man--maybe more than he would......more

I heart unreliable narrators, and this book is full of 'em. Set in 1922, it tells the tale of Ralph Trilipush's quest to find the tomb of an apocryphal king/erotic poet named Atum-hadu (which translates to Atum-Is-Aroused). Amusingly, his expedition is concurrent with Howard Carter's discovery of th......more

I considered giving this four stars instead of five, but I'm bumping it up because I think the Goodreads average is ranked low primarily for the "I don't like the characters" reason or the "I guessed the ending" reason, and frankly, while the characters are not all that likable, they are complex and......more