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               A thought provoking book.

The tomb of Tutankhamun was undoubtedly the greatest archaeological discovery of all time. What is not so well known is that among the wonderful treasures were rumoured to be papyri that held the ‘true account’ of the biblical Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. At a time when Arab hostility was erupting over Britain’s support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, archaeologist Howard Carter’s threat to make the contents of the papyri known to the world could have caused chaos across the Middle East.

The book is the outcome of extensive research undertaken by two authors determined to get to the truth of what has become Egypt’s and archaeology’s most baffling mystery. It forms the most comprehensive, detailed and accurate book ever written on the events surrounding the discovery of the tomb, and the relationship between the age of Tutankhamun and the origins of Israel. The conclusions are starting.

Reviews:

—- What secrets lie behind the controversial opening of Tutankhamun’s tomb?

Did the contents of papyri found in the tomb reveal the true story of biblical Exodus?

Was Tutankhamun the Pharaoh of the Exodus? And did the conquest of Canaan, as described in the Old Testament, ever take place?

The tomb of Tutankhamun was undoubtedly the greatest archaeological discovery of all time. What is not so well known is that among the wonderful treasures were rumoured to be papyri that held the ‘true account’ of the biblical Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. At a time when Arab hostility was erupting over Britain’s support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, archaeologist Howard Carter’s threat to make the contents of the papyri known to the world could have caused chaos across the Middle East.

The book is the outcome of extensive research undertaken by two authors determined to get to the truth of what has become Egypt’s and archaeology’s most baffling mystery. It forms the most comprehensive, detailed and accurate book ever written on the events surrounding the discovery of the tomb, and the relationship between the age of Tutankhamun and the origins of Israel. The conclusions are starting.

—- This is an interesting new angle on the Tutankhamun story. Supposedly Howard Carter found some papyri in the tomb shortly after its discovery. These papyri supposedly contained new information on the early history of the Jewish people. And supposedly this information would place in doubt the historic claim of the Jewish people to the land of Israel.

On one level this is a rather entertaining book because its an archaeological mystery story with sidelights into the occult. On a deeper level it doesn’t really hold much water. Regardless of the origin of the ancestors of the Jewish people (and this book has some intriguing material on that subject) nothing can deny that Jews did live in Israel/Judea for many hundreds of years.

Furthermore, thinking about those papyri, the authors can give very little real evidence that they ever really existed, or if they did,that they really contained the explosive material the authors maintain they did.

So, the book is well written, contains some interesting archaeological information on the early history of the Jews and their religious beliefs, and also provides some previously unknown (at least to me) insights into the occult beliefs of Lord Carnarvon and others involved in the tomb’s discovery. But as to how accurate it is, and how much stock to place in its theories, I’m much less willing to state an opinion. Buy it if you like mysteries, but look elsewhere for serious archaeological/historical analysis.

Authors: Andrew Collins is the author of From the Ashes of Angels, Gateway to Atlantis, and Gods of Eden, and the organizer of the Questing Conference, Britain’s largest annual conference on alternative history. Chris Ogilvie-Herald is former editor of Quest for Knowledge magazine and the coauthor of Giza: The Truth.