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Teti

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Founder of the 6th Dynasty, around 2340 BCE, buried in a pyramid at Saqqara whose chambers carry the Pyramid Texts; Manetho's much later history says he was murdered by his own guards, a claim no contemporary source confirms.

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The Amarna Mysteries

Mystery novels of ancient Egypt, built on the scholarship of the Amarna period. Published by The WordFish Group GmbH, Basel.

The Series

  • Series overview
  • Geography of the series
  • Naming Ancient Egypt
  • Healers & poisons
  • Scribes & bureaucracy

The Amarna Period

  • Overview
  • Akhenaten & the Aten
  • The royal women
  • Succession & aftermath
  • Horemheb

Behind the Books

  • Overview
  • Methodology
  • Research
  • Reader's Companion
  • From the Notebook

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