Ancient Egypt MYSTERY "compellingly brought to life' - the unknown, the enigmatic, the hidden, the buried, the strange, the undiscovered, the unidentified, the shadowy, the veiled, the uncanny, the mystical…

Beauty is mystery, mystery beauty - that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know. A paraphrase of poet Keats who wrote "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”. Einstein concurred about mystery: “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.” If you are lover of mystery “dive into" Roy Lester Pond fiction on Amazon Kindle and paperback.

Goddess of the Library in "THE FORBIDDEN GLYPHS of THOTH". Anson Hunter Egypt archaeology mystery thriller series

"The Open SARCOPHAGUS" Can an archaeologist rescue his loved one from The Mummy King's Realm?

“Such a good story. Have read it for the fourth time," a reader writes

Adventure, mystery, across the boundaries of time... the Mummy King's Realm. An archaeologist armed with a bow shoots an arrow into adventure... Wilson Ryder discovers a mysterious empty sarcophagus in a tomb. Then his Egyptologist partner Janet goes missing after a sojourn alone in the tomb. He vows to go after her, even if it means journeying across the boundaries of reason and existence. Ahead of Ryder and his dog lies a pre-dynastic realm of myth: the mysterious Mistress of the Bow and Ruler of Arrows, the evil Lord Set, legions of animal-headed creatures, the venerable bird-man, the child Horus. And key to it all is the quest for the magical amulets of power. A life-and-death struggle is on at the edge of time. And the universe watches - and waits.

The Archaeologist Detective - Start this highly-rated series with the first two cases

THE SERIES

Book Video COME ON AN "UNDERWORLD JOURNEY" - A Near Death Egypt Adventure

"UNDERWORLD JOURNEY A Near Death Egypt Adventure" on Amazon Kindle

NEW RELEASE: "UNDERWORLD EGYPT A Near Death Egypt Adventure” (formerly Egypt Demons") has all the makings of a thrilling blockbuster! A mix of mystery, adventure, and ancient Egyptian mythology perfect for the big screen. With the right cast and director, it could be the next cult classic.”

GET A WORLD AWAY IN A BOOK. Mystery, adventure, archaeology, mythology-haunted Egypt fiction.

Author's wife Brenda, "my photographic eye" in Egypt and elsewhere", took these ibis pics shown here in my BOOK VIDEO

Brenda also captured this fine Thoth ibis photo in Luxor Temple, Egypt, the image used for the cover of THE IBIS APOCALYPSE novel. .

Early Brenda on our first ever trip to Egypt.

SOAR into 5-star ancient Egypt fiction reading. Mystery thrillers, archaeology, adventure, mythology...

Mysterious ancient-Egypt inspired fiction that "escapes the noise of the moment"

NEW RELEASE FICTION. A Near-Death Egypt Adventure…. A young writer and visitor to Egypt's ancient sites and sanctuaries meets his personal demons. Can he survive the ‘life, or eternal death’ choices of an ancient Egyptian underworld? And who is his mysterious female Egyptian tour guide along the way? READ IT NOW ON AMAZON KINDLE

"UNDERWORLD JOURNEY A Near Death Egypt Adventure"

NEW RELEASE: "UNDERWORLD EGYPT A Near Death Egypt Adventure” (formerly Egypt Demons") has all the makings of a thrilling blockbuster! A mix of mystery, adventure, and ancient Egyptian mythology perfect for the big screen. With the right cast and director, it could be the next cult classic.”

UNDERWORLD JOURNEY. A Near-Death Egypt Adventure A young writer and visitor to Egypt's ancient sites and sanctuaries discovers his personal demons. But who is his mysterious female Egyptian tour guide? And can he survive the existential terrors of what appear to be ‘life-or-eternal death’ challenges in an ancient Egyptian underworld? READ IT NOW ON AMAZON KINDLE

A night of mythological terrors for the world of Egyptology - archaeology mystery thriller in the Anson Hunter series

Rameses the Great, brought down to earth. Pharaonic Egypt is a vivid reminder of how self-glorification, super-wealth and super-celebrity falls off its pedestal and lies tumbled in the dust in the end.

Wadi El-Sebua, Lake Nasser appears in Murder in Nubia, Amazon Kindle and paperback.

"Great stories" of archaeology, mystery, mythology and adventure "that untangle new mysteries of ancient Egypt's hidden past."

"Monumental....momentum..." A cubic granite statue hurtles down a ramp at Anson Hunter in a scene from "The Ibis Apocalypse" archaeological Egypt thriller

From THE IBIS APOCALYPSE (Amazon Kindle)

Ibis catacomb, el-Ashmunein, Egypt

“SORRY, ANSON. Your search for the stela ends here!”

The voice of the young woman funneled down the underground passage, the echoes fluttering off the stone like startled bats.

Anson Hunter, alternative Egyptologist and theorist, felt a chill as the words reached his ears. It was caused as much by the emotional separation in her voice as by its distance. Her voice was startlingly removed. It was also hard and cold. A few minutes earlier she had been a companionable presence at his shoulder. Now this. She had deserted him, stealing back up the ramp of the passage.

Why?

A rumble of thunder came to deepen his puzzlement and then a screech, the sound of stone moving over stone, grinding, scouring. He felt a tremble under his feet. He spun his flashlight. The abrasion grew to a roar that made his eardrums cower.

A slab of darkness surged out of deeper darkness. His beam flared on a block of granite in a humanoid shape. A man mountain. It was a stone block with a carved head on top… a colossal block-statue of a High Priest of Thoth, weighing tons.

The cubic man, with head, feet and hands protruding, squatted on a base with his knees raised and arms folded across them under a cloak to form a crushing volume in stone.

In the turmoil, the passage trembled and so did Anson.

The wigged and bearded face on top of the block wore a

smile that belied the missile’s crushing intent as the statue shuddered over the floor. Hieroglyphs on the front of the block leapt into Anson’s vision like an execration hurled at him, a spell to obliterate an intruder.

The attack of the granite rock slide turned him to stone.

He had seen the block statue earlier, bulking at the head of the passage, and, fearing a trap, had urged his female companion to step over a granite flagstone in the floor, fearing it might trigger disaster.

But she had slipped back and deliberately set it off.

Now he understood the reason for the vast corridor and the ramped floor that plunged into the earth. It was built to speed the massive plug on its rush down the passage.

The cubic man gathered momentum and the sound of tortured stone assaulted his ears as he felt a blast of arriving air hit his body. It felt like a train coming down a tunnel.

He could never outrun it.

Then what?

A glance told him there was no room in the passage to jump clear. That left one option. Jump on board the block statue before it gathered more speed. Go along for the ride.

Instead of fleeing, he went to meet his fate and the stony smile on the face seemed to spread.

Jump! Hold on to the head.

The throaty roar of the slab filled his ears and sparks showered from its base.

He sprang like a suicide throwing his body into the path of a train.

The stone mass slammed into his body. He lost his torch and his wind in the impact. The polished surface tried to repel him and he felt his body skidding. He threw his arms out and hooked them around the pyramidal bulge of the block-priest’s wig, clamped on tight.

He rode the human slab in darkness broken by sparks showering upwards to illuminate sliding passage walls. The flicker revealed the statue’s brutal face and stone ears curved like bowls against the wig. The grind and screech of the block’s descent sent shock waves through the core of the colossus and it seemed to be shaking underneath him as if in a rage.

The slab thundered on. It was as if the priestly defender of the tomb were trying to sweep him off by speed alone.

Down, down Anson slid, riding a rock fall on a journey through the darkness of an underworld.

He had clung to ancient Egypt all of his life and now he was hanging on to it for his very life, not to its mystery or allure or its esoteric beliefs, but to its concrete monumentality.

He never imagined it would end like this in the hell of screaming, spark-showering stone, betrayed by a woman he trusted. Yet this was where his journey had always been going.

His obsession to find a stone book called the Destiny Stela, inscribed with the most dangerous texts ever composed, was carrying him to destruction.

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