It was not supposed to have turned out the way it did. It was supposed to be a simple trip across the Sahara desert to visit some pyramids. Lorie was an ancient Egyptian history buff and the opportunity to actually visit an ancient pyramid was too good to pass. She was in Cairo on business and was supposed to go back to New York today. But her plane had deve...
Kasmut was perturbed. She always got her wishes, but today she had been denied. Menna her favorite tutor had been conscripted to work at Giza. As of the next full moon, he would be working there without time off. The pharaoh had needed more men; the slaves had not been sufficient to finish the monument to his life. Kasmut looked off into the distance and s...
The morning sun had risen high enough in the sky already for the temperature to rise to uncomfortable, but not unbearable levels. Within a few more hours however, the heat would get there. It always got there, that stifling oppressive heat that can sap a man's will to live faster than the harshest working conditions. And as always, when the heat has reached...
Poof! History and Science explode bible as pure myth? Proven history is an objective observer that has no agenda. Science is a search for truth such as it upturns that which is proven wrong. The bible is static, full of errors that many cling to without question or care of proof otherwise. That would be fine if they didn't try to forcibly make everyone else...
1648 B.C.: Anen ran down the temple corridor. He could hear the dying cries of his fellow priests as they mustered the best defense they could against the formidable warriors. Enkartep had done something bad, but they did not know what; all they knew was that they needed to defend their high priest. He turned the corner and saw a crack in the wall. Beyon...
Fighting tears of frustration, I climbed the bus steps with my oversized backpack and a crumpled hamburger bag. I was embarking on an eight-hour ride from my parents’ Maryland home back to my university in Ohio. The station was closed, I had nearly taken the wrong bus, and I had forgotten to bring my paperback novel. By the time I boarded at the last possibl...
I place my journey, throughout the ancient ruins, within the heart of the Egypt. She was called the wife of pharaoh. Her name is etched upon the pillars, ever so high. I visit the site of the Aztec, her name is written on the temple. I am in awe. The ancients speak of her as the beauty of life. She is the beauty to be, the beauty of old, and the one to come,...
It's been a couple months since we started smuggling people from my hometown to our tomb. There were various reasons why they went with us. Some were in disbelief that monsters could be living this close by and they just had to see it for themselves. Others were sick of working and close to being tossed aside. Some were old, others broken from labor. But the...
By the close of the Achaemenid Empire, there was a great movement across the plains of this side of Armenia, and with it a new age and a new leader. I'd already heard of Alexander III of Macedon, having come from the west already myself, and I was learning that his name was well firmed with the powers here, too. The man had even been made a Pharaoh in Egypt!...
The cushions were soft as silk as the young pharaoh lay to rest after the wedding. Tonight was special...tonight was the night that he would take his young love, his new wife; into the marriage bed and make love to her. Tonight he would pledge his love to her in flesh and blood. He lounged lazily, sipping sweet wine, trying his best to calm his nerves as t...