The Cry of the Nile: A Life in the Age of Pharaohs
Ancient Civilizations & Mythic Origins, Book 2
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Get 30 days of Standard free
The Cry of the Nile: A Life in the Age of Pharaohs
Buy Now for £13.79
-
Narrated by:
-
J. Scott Bennett
Summary
Egypt, 1360 BCE. The greatest civilization on earth is about to tear itself apart.
When Pharaoh Akhenaten launches the most radical religious revolution the ancient world has ever seen, temples are sealed, gods are erased from stone, and an entire capital rises from empty desert. Ordinary people must choose between obedience and conscience.
A scribe ordered to erase the names of gods he was raised to honour. A priestess driven underground, keeping forbidden rituals alive through memory alone. A soldier whose unquestioning loyalty makes him the instrument of a regime he slowly comes to doubt.
Spanning forty years from the golden age of Thebes through the brief reign of Tutankhamun to General Horemheb's systematic erasure of an entire era from history, The Cry of the Nile is a novel about what happens when the state demands that you forget, and the small, stubborn acts of preservation that outlast every empire.
The erasure failed.
The sand gave back what it was asked to swallow.
And the Nile kept flowing.
©2026 Dakikon Publishing (P)2026 Dakikon PublishingContinue the series
