| Feature 1: Fun Facts about the GEM When it is completed, the Grand Egyptian Museum just outside of Cairo on the Giza Plateau and next door to the Pyramids will not only be the new crown jewel of Egypt, but it will also be one of the largest, most modern, and most renowned museums in the entire world | Historical accuracy [ ] The novel's reputation of historical flawlessness has been often repeated, by the egyptological congress of Cairo, French egyptologist Pierre Chaumelle, and U |
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| [ So Has It Been and Will Always Be] TV documentary in Finnish | Losing the "popular fiction" stigma [ ] In Finnish academic literary circles, critics had generally regarded Waltari as an author of |
But the book opens one's eyes to an ancient world, nearer to ours than we think.
6| Apart from incidents in Egypt, the novel charts Sinuhe's travels in then Egyptian-dominated Syria , in , , , and among the | was among the novel's admirers |
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| Similar themes are expressed via repetition throughout the novel, such as: everything is futile, the tomorrow is unknowable, no one can know why something has always been so, all people are fundamentally the same everywhere, the world year is changing, and death is better than life | Sinuhe is attracted to the teachings that the new king proclaims and, as he feels, focus on light, equality and justice, and joins Akhenaten's court |
The book is indeed a work of art, its language and effects fit splendidly with the French language, it contains not a single tasteless nor crude spot nor archaeological error.
26| Kerttula, Suvi 6 December 2017 | Supporting historical characters include the old Pharaoh and his conniving favorite wife, ; the wife of Akhenaten, ; the listless young King Tut , who succeeded as Pharaoh after Akhenaten's downfall; and the two common-born successors who were, according to this author, integral parts of the rise and fall of the heresy of Akhenaten: the priest and later Pharaoh and the warrior-general and then finally Pharaoh, |
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| Both Sinuhe and Kaptah participate in this battle, as Sinuhe wanted to know what war is like | Soon after its release in the , it was selected book of the month in September 1949, and then entered the bestseller lists in October 1949, where it remained the unparalleled two years — 550 000 copies were sold in that time |
Even the day of the false king has its basis on reality, with ancient Babylonians killing a surrogate king to save their real king should he have been prophesied to die.
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