And so I drank the potion in the brimming cup. My monuments are still standing the stele recount my victories, though a thousand years have passed since I was pulled, a mortal child, from the womb.Īh, fatal moment now buried by time, when from a Hittite priestess I took the cursed elixir. But I was once Ramses the Great of Upper and Lower Egypt, slayer of the Hittites, father of many sons and daughters, who ruled Egypt for sixty-four years. For that is the name I have given myself. It was a tale told by the newspapers in 1914-of a spectacular find by a British Egyptologist in an isolated tomb outside of Cairo-a royal mummy of Egypt’s greatest monarch and, beside his painted sarcophagus, a vast collection of ancient poisons and a journal in Latin, written in the time of Cleopatra, comprising some thirteen scrolls.Ĭall me Ramses the Damned. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
She may be the only one who can make known to Ramses and Cleopatra the key to their immortality-and the secrets of the miraculous, unknowable, endless expanse of the universe.
This is a figure who ruled over an ancient kingdom stretching from the once-fertile earth of the Sahara to the far corners of the world, a queen with a supreme knowledge of the deepest origins of the elixir of life. But as these ancient rulers defy one another in their quest to understand the powers of the strange elixir, they are haunted by a mysterious presence even older and more powerful than they, a figure drawn forth from the mists of history who possesses spectacular magical potions and tonics eight millennia old. Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir whose unworldly force brings the dead back to life. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra. Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. From the iconic and bestselling author of The Mummy and The Vampire Chronicles, a mesmerizing, glamorous new tale of ancient feuds and modern passions.
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