The Serpent on the Crown By: Elizabeth Peters
Historic Fiction, Mystery 543 pages (large print) 8th grade reading level copyright 2005
This book takes place in Egypt during 1922 and is about a mystery that finds a family of archeologist. It was written by a Ph. D. in Egyptology, so as one can guess it is really rich in information on ancient Egypt. However, the storyline of the mystery itself doesn’t require a large amount of knowledge of archeology or ancient Egypt. All one needs to know beyond common knowledge of ancient Egypt is that this story takes place before Howard Carter started to dig on that year. (1922 being the year that he found King Tut’s tomb.) But knowing a fair amount of info on Egypt makes the book more enjoyable. (Expect ones constant desire to yell at the book about the heir of Pharaoh Akhenaten.) All and all though we found the book a fun read and plan on looking for other books by the same author.
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