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God Save the King

January 6, 2017 by expandingbookshelf 2 Comments

I think all of us went through an Egypt phase in school. It was right after our paleontologist phase and right before we became too cool for phases. We devoured any National Geographic with the pyramids on the cover, became a little too knowledgeable about the macabre process of mummification, and spouted off as many facts about the “cool” pharaohs that our patient parents would listen to. There was the trifecta of the most badass pharaohs to ever pharaoh-Nefertiti, King Tut and Cleopatra. Well, with […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History Tagged With: biography, egypt, Kara Cooney, Non-Fiction, The Woman Who Would Be King

expandingbookshelf's CBR9 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History · Tags: biography, egypt, Kara Cooney, Non-Fiction, The Woman Who Would Be King ·
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