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Nefret Emerson
The Amelia Peabody series of historical mystery novels is written by Elizabeth Peters, set in Victorian Egypt among a family of eccentric archaeologists. Note that, as with most character lists, the descriptions herein necessarily contain numerous spoilers. Entirely fictional The Emerson family ;Amelia Peabody Emerson : The matriarch, sleuth, and fervent pyramidophile. Nicknamed "Sitt Hakim" ("Lady Doctor"). ;Professor Radcliffe Emerson, Radcliffe Archibald Emerson : Amelia's husband, "The greatest Egyptologist of this or any other era." Nicknamed "Abu Shitaim" ("Father of Curses"). ;Walter Peabody "Ramses" Emerson : Amelia and Radcliffe's only child, born around July 1887. He is first described as "catastrophically precocious", since he is intellectually gifted but finds social interactions difficult. He is later dubbed "Akhu el-Efreet" ("Brother of Demons"), and grows up to become a renowned philologist like his uncle. ;Nefret Forth Emerson : Daughter of Willoughby Forth, bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Peabody Series
The Amelia Peabody series is a series of twenty historical mystery novels and one non-fiction companion volume written by Egyptologist Barbara Mertz (1927–2013) under the pen name Elizabeth Peters. The series is centered on the adventures of the unconventional female Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, Amelia Peabody Emerson, for whom the series is named, and an ever-increasing number of family, friends, allies, and characters both fictional and based on historical figures. The novels blend mystery and romance with a wryly comic tone, and at times also parody Victorian-era adventure novels such as those written by H. Rider Haggard. The series was published between 1975 and 2010, with the final, posthumous novel (completed by Joan Hess) appearing in 2017. Plot Amelia Peabody is introduced in the series' first novel, ''Crocodile on the Sandbank'', as a confirmed spinster, suffragist, and scholar, living in England in 1884. She inherits a fortune from her father and leaves England to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sethos (Peabody Mysteries)
Sethos is the ''nom de guerre'' of the shadowy "Master Criminal" in the Amelia Peabody series of historical mystery novels. Role in the novels He is first encountered in '' The Mummy Case'', as the mastermind of an organized gang of thieves attempting to steal antiquities from Dahshoor, in which he is partially foiled by Amelia Peabody and her husband, Radcliffe Emerson. To their surprise, he reveals that he has spent most of the novel right under their noses, pretending to be a Coptic priest of the local village. Despite his disguise, Amelia feels sure he is English in origin. In '' Lion in the Valley'', his nom de guerre is revealed, and he is thus described by an Englishman who hears of him during his brief foray into slum life: :"He has no name, only a variety of appellations. Those in his employ, I believe, refer to him as the Master. To others, less intimately associated with him, he is known as Sethos... The men who work for the Master are the cream of the criminal crop. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children Of The Storm
''Children of the Storm'' is the 15th in a series of historical mystery novels, written by American writer Elizabeth Peters, first published in 2003. The audiobook is narrated by British actress Barbara Rosenblat. ''Children of the Storm'' features fictional sleuth and archaeologist Amelia Peabody. The story is set in the 1919–1920 dig season in Egypt. Explanation of the novel's title The title is an excerpt from an ancient Egyptian horoscope: :"The day of the children of the storm. Very dangerous. Do not go on the water this day." —Ancient Egyptian horoscope Epigraph of ''Children of the Storm'' Plot summary The 1919 season opens with the Vandergelts and Emersons packing the God's Wives treasures found (in the previous book) for Cyrus Vandergelt by his adopted son Bertie. Just after the Service d'Antiquités representative comes to inspect their work, several items disappear together with the conservator Cyrus had hired on Sethos's recommendation. The conservator's s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden One (novel)
''The Golden One'' is the 14th in a series of historical mystery novels, written by Elizabeth Peters and featuring fictional sleuth and archaeologist Amelia Peabody. It was first published in 2002. The story is set in the 1916–1917 dig season in Egypt. Plot summary There are two plot lines. The first story deals with the search for an unknown tomb whose artifacts have started to appear on the black market. The second story follows Ramses Emerson as he is sent on another mission behind Turkish lines. After arriving in Egypt in January, 1917, Amelia acquires a magnificent cosmetic jar with the cartouche mainly rubbed off, strong evidence for the truth behind the rumors of a new, previously untouched tomb. After a brief stay in Cairo, the family moves on to their home in Luxor. They find a murdered man in a hard-to-reach cave in the area of the princess tombs. Selim figures it is Abdul Hassan, one of the group who found those tombs. Two of that original group of six are now dead. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seshat
Seshat (, under various spellings) was the ancient Egyptian Ancient Egyptian religion, goddess of writing, wisdom, and knowledge. She was seen as a scribe and record keeper. She was also credited with inventing writing. She became identified as the goddess of measurement, accounting, architecture, science, astronomy, mathematics, geometry, history and surveying. She was variously depicted as the consort, daughter, or female counterpart of Thoth, who was also associated with knowledge, astronomy, measurement, and writing. History Seshat is attested from at least the First Dynasty of Egypt, First Dynasty. Her priests and image are referenced in the Palermo Stone, Royal Annals of the Old Kingdom, during the reign of Den (pharaoh), Den. She was depicted in image as early as the second Dynasty of Egypt, Second Dynasty, where she was shown conducting the "Rope stretcher, stretching the cord" ritual with Khasekhemwy. The antiquity of her symbols, such as the notched Palm branch, palm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horus
Horus (), also known as Heru, Har, Her, or Hor () in Egyptian language, Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as the god of kingship, healing, protection, the sun, and the sky. He was worshipped from at least the late prehistoric Egypt until the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Egypt (Roman province), Roman Egypt. Different forms of Horus are recorded in history, and these are treated as distinct gods by Egyptology, Egyptologists."The Oxford Guide: Essential Guide to Egyptian Mythology", Edited by Donald B. Redford, Horus: by Edmund S. Meltzer, pp. 164–168, Berkley, 2003, . These various forms may be different manifestations of the same multi-layered deity in which certain attributes or Syncretism, syncretic relationships are emphasized, not necessarily in opposition but complementary to one another, consistent with how the Ancient Egyptians viewed the multiple facets of reality. He was most often depicted as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snake, The Crocodile, And The Dog
''The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog'' is the seventh in a series of historical mystery novels, written by Elizabeth Peters and featuring fictional archaeologist and sleuth Amelia Peabody. It was first published in 1992. The story is set in the summer of 1898 in England and the 1898–1899 archaeological dig season in Egypt. Plot summary After returning from their adventure at the Lost Oasis, the Emersons try to get Nefret, their new ward, integrated into English country life. She has difficulty with the immaturity and meanness of girls her age, but is determined to learn the ways of her newly adopted culture. Nefret decides she will stay in England to study while the Emersons return to Egypt as usual in the fall, and Walter and Evelyn Emerson glady take her in. Ramses also decides to stay in England, as his crush on Nefret becomes more obvious to his mother, but to no one else. Amelia and the Professor sail east to the place where they met, Amarna—the complete clearing o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anubis
Anubis (; ), also known as Inpu, Inpw, Jnpw, or Anpu in Ancient Egyptian (), is the god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide to the underworld in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head. Like many ancient Egyptian deities, Anubis assumed different roles in various contexts. Depicted as a protector of graves as early as the First Dynasty (), Anubis was also an embalmer. By the Middle Kingdom (c. 2055–1650 BC) he was replaced by Osiris in his role as lord of the underworld. One of his prominent roles was as a god who ushered souls into the afterlife. He attended the weighing scale during the "Weighing of the Heart", in which it was determined whether a soul would be allowed to enter the realm of the dead. Anubis is one of the most frequently depicted and mentioned gods in the Egyptian pantheon; however, few major myths involved him. Anubis was depicted in black, a color that symbolized regeneration, life, the soil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Curse Of The Pharaohs (novel)
''The Curse of the Pharaohs'' is a historical mystery novel by Elizabeth Peters, first published in 1981 and the second in the Amelia Peabody series of novels; it takes place in the excavation season of 1892–1893. Plot summary The Emersons are at home in Kent, England; Emerson is a professor, teaching and writing a book, and they are raising their young son Ramses. Ramses is a precocious 4-year-old who can identify a bone as the femur of an animal. Lady Baskerville arrives in Kent and asks them to finish the excavation started by her husband Lord Henry Baskerville, who died mysteriously just before opening a tomb in Luxor. They spend Christmas with Walter and Evelyn and their children at Chalfont House; Emerson and Amelia travel the next day, leaving Ramses with his cousins. They arrive in Cairo, hearing talk of the curse of the pharaohs. Reporter Kevin O'Connell of the ''Daily Yell'', inventor of the curse, introduces himself. The Emersons arrive at the Baskerville compound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seeing A Large Cat
''Seeing a Large Cat'' is the ninth novel in the Amelia Peabody historical mystery series by Elizabeth Peters, first published in 1997. The story takes place in Egypt during the archaeological dig season of 1903–1904. Plot summary The story opens at Amelia's favorite hotel, Shepheard's in Cairo in 1903. The family reunites with son Ramses, now age sixteen, and their adopted nephew David, age 18. The two boys spent six months with a Bedouin friend of the family in Egypt, learning manly skills. In previous summers, the children spent months with Emerson's brother Walter and his wife Evelyn and their children; that couple took in David as their son. The two couples worked on finishing a major book; Walter and Evelyn stay in London to see the book through publication instead of joining Emerson and Amelia in Egypt. Daughter Nefret, same age as David, spent her summer studying anatomy with Louisa Aldrich-Blake at the London School of Medicine for Women. Radcliffe Emerson receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bast (mythology)
Bastet or Bast (), also known as Ubasti or Bubastis, is a goddess of ancient Egyptian religion, possibly of Nubian origin, worshipped as early as the Second Dynasty (2890 BC). In ancient Greek religion, she was known as Ailuros (). Bastet was worshipped in Bubastis in Lower Egypt, originally as a lioness goddess, a role shared by other deities such as Sekhmet. Eventually Bastet and Sekhmet were characterized as two aspects of the same goddess, with Sekhmet representing the powerful warrior and protector aspect, and Bastet, who increasingly was depicted as a cat, representing a gentler aspect.Serpell, "Domestication and History of the Cat", p. 184. Name Bastet, which is the form of the name that is most commonly adopted by Egyptologists today because of its use in later dynasties, is a modern convention offering one possible reconstruction. In early Egyptian hieroglyphs, her name appears to have been ''bꜣstt''. James Peter Allen vocalizes the original form of the name as ''bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nubian People
Nubians () ( Nobiin: ''Nobī,'' ) are a Nilo-Saharan speaking ethnic group indigenous to the region which is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt. They originate from the early inhabitants of the central Nile valley, believed to be one of the earliest cradles of civilization. In the southern valley of Egypt, Nubians differ culturally and ethnically from Egyptians, although they intermarried with members of other ethnic groups, especially Arabs. They speak Nubian languages as a mother tongue, part of the Northern Eastern Sudanic languages, and Arabic as a second language. Neolithic settlements have been found in the central Nubian region dating back to 7000 BC, with Wadi Halfa believed to be the oldest settlement in the central Nile valley. Parts of Nubia, particularly Lower Nubia, were at times a part of ancient Pharaonic Egypt and at other times a rival state representing parts of Meroë or the Kingdom of Kush. By the Twenty-fifth Dynasty (744 BC–656 BC), all of Egypt wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
