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http://www.robingames.com/games/treasure-pyramid/

"Lost for more than 5000 years, the Treasure Pyramid has been waiting to be discovered. You've found an ancient map that will lead you there. Embark on an adventure that will have you puzzling your way through the lost temples of Egypt. Dodge dangers, find treasures and collect the 7 jewels that will unlock the long-lost majestic pyramid."

Amenhotep, Son of Hapu: A Tale of Egypt

http://tinyurl.com/3xmoyz
"One of the most realistic, fictional accounts of ancient Egyptian life ever penned, Scribe’s Ascent is the first novel in the Amenhotep, Son of Hapu: A Tale of Egypt series. As Egypt’s foremost éminent grise, Amenhotep narrates in Scribe’s Ascent his rise from a miserable provincial backwater to a position second only to Pharaoh’s in power."

A Queen's Destiny
http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=41397&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
"Nobilis announces Kheops Studio' Cleopatra: A Queen's Destiny, an adventure game in which the player will be plunged in the tormented period of the Antique Egypt. Help the young new queen Cleopatra to take the good decisions for her Empire and become the queen of kings. Scheduled for Q3 2007, your quest will lead you through Alexandria and all its mythic monuments like: the Library or the Lighthouse of Alexandria."

Ankh
http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=41445&mode=thread&order=0

"Cairo... the ancient city of thousand shapes, colors and smells. And of Pharaohs, crocodiles and assassins. It won't be easy for Assil to get an audience at the palace to get rid of his death curse. Even worse, the number of his foes is growing faster than his curse takes posession of him. And that's already quite fast. Only a keen mind can save Assil from certain death: You!
During his quest, Assil meets a whole bunch of weird people, from happy slaves to frightened crocodiles and finally Osiris himself, the god of the underworld.
Based on the original Ankh from Artex Software (1998), Ankh will be fateful port of ts PC countpart although restricted in specifications such as limited voiceovers, and graphics, but the point & click adventure aspect will remain identical.
Currently only scheduled for release in Germany, somewhere in August 2007."

King Tut's Gold
http://www.ereleases.com/pr/20070308009.html

"A young Egyptian boy studying to be a scribe embarks on a series of adventures and mysteries that propel him into the services of three royal families in Bill Butler's new book, "King Tut's Gold: Mystery of the Golden Water-Screw" (now available through AuthorHouse). Ahmes-VI is a 14-year-old student scribe at the Temple of Karnak. He is invited to travel with his father, an irrigation engineer, to Nubia, the land of gold and "Ta-Seti," the bow people. With invitations from the royal sculptor Bek, they travel on the royal barge with Egypt's most powerful lady, Tiye, the queen and wife of King Amenhotep-III. Tiye and Amenhotep-III are the grandparents of the boy King Tutankhamen. The queen is making her last journey to Nubia, where she has been summoned by her aunt Catava, a powerful sage who gives prophecies of the next two kings. Catava predicts that one king will cause a crack in the religious foundation of Egypt's 2000-year-old pantheon of gods. As a tribute to the next kings of Egypt, the sage Catava orders the preparation and construction of a 10-foot cylinder, a golden water-screw that will be kept in a sacred magical pond. The wondrous object will be used to pour out unlimited amounts of the finest, purest Nubian gold for King Akhenaten, Queen Nefertiti and their son, the most memorable monarch in all human history, King Tutankhamen. "

See the above page for more.

Book review (fiction): THE WATER THIEF By Ben Pastor Thomas Dunne
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/08/AR2007030802514.html

"Ben Pastor's The Water Thief is one of those books that undermine the categories of fiction. It has all the earmarks of a mystery: a disputed death in the past, present-day murders (the book's "present," that is: the 4th century), an investigating hero and a surprise villain. But Pastor has taken such pains to conjure up Italy and Egypt back then, to take the temperature of the Roman Empire, to depict local officials coping with the challenges posed by the spread of Christianity, that the result is far richer than the traditional whodunit."

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