The irascible husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody demonstrates again why he has been nicknamed "Father of Curses." Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, Emerson is awarded instead the "pyramids" of Mazghunah: countless mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. Nothing in this barren spot seems worthy of interest—until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his Cairo shop.

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Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia Peobody--indomitable archaeologist-sleuth--once again sets sail for Egypt, where ghosts of an ancient past and specters of a present-day evil hover silently over an inscrutable land.

Archeologist Amelia and her family are sent to the Nubian desert to find the explorer Willoughby Forth.

While excavating a previously undiscovered tomb, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody's son is kidnapped forcing her to use all of her detective skills to discover the identity of the kidnapper and location of her son.

Archaeologist Amelia Peabody is working with her husband to uncover some of Egypt's ancient tombs, but soon she becomes involved in a modern day mystery that has strange attachments to the past.

Convinced that the tomb of the little-known king Tutankhamon lies somewhere in the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson and his intrepid wife, Amelia Peabody, seem to have hit a wall. Having been banned forever from the East Valley, Emerson, against Amelia's advice, has tried desperately to persuade Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter to relinquish their digging rights. But Emerson's trickery has backfired, and his insistent interest...

The Great War is finally over, but if Amelia Peabody thinks that this year's excavations will be uneventful, she has something else coming.

On the gleaming banks of the Nile, the brilliant Taita -- slave and advisor to the Pharaoh -- finds himself at the center of a vortex of passion, intrigue, and danger. His quest to destroy the Hyksos army and form an alliance with Crete takes him on an epic journey up the Nile, through Arabia and the magical city of Babylon, and across the open seas. With the future of Egypt itself on his shoulders, Taita enters a world where the line between loyalty...

If the biblical plagues of Egypt truly happened -- could they happen again -- on a global scale? Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, Professor Harold McCabe comes stumbling out of the sands, but he dies before he can tell his story. Then an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor's body -- while he was still alive. Subsequently, the medical team who had performed the man's autopsy has fallen...