If you’re like me, you’ve read every novel in Elizabeth Peters’ beyond-delightful Amelia Peabody mystery series about eight times over. The wit! The adventure! The exotic locations, archaeological mysteries, and prolific corpses! Egyptologist Barbara Mertz (who wrote under the name Elizabeth Peters) was kind enough to give us nineteen (and a bit) Amelia adventures before […]
Christina Startt was a high school student in 2008 when she discovered the books of Barbara Mertz. She was instantly drawn into the fictional world of Amelia Peabody, the late 19th-century Egyptologist who was the main character in many of Mertz’s books.
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If you want to read a cosy mystery series set in Egypt, you'll end up reading the Amelia Peabody series due to it is extreme popularity. Elizabeth Peters
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Barbara preslotted Mertz couldn’t make it to Cairo for her 85th birthday, so Cairo came to her in Frederick. On Sept. 29, the queen of Egyptian mysteries, known to her legion of fans as Elizabeth Pet...
The Amelia Peabody series is a set of historical mystery novels written by University of Chicago-trained Egyptologist Barbara Mertz under the pen name
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UCL’s Petrie Museum began it’s story before the collections of Flinders Petrie. In fact, both the Petrie Museum and Flinders Petrie himself owe their successful future to one determined and passionate woman, Amelia Blanford Edwards (b.1831-1892). Born in London, Amelia started working in journalism to help earn money for her elderly parents. A prolific writer, she wrote
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Frisches aus dem Jahr 1842: Sophia und Nathaniel Hawthornes zweihändig geführtes Journal erscheint zum 150. Todestag des amerikanischen Erzählers
"An unfinished sketch of Amelia Peabody, submitted by Evelyn Barton-Forbes in the year 1884, before they embarked for Egypt."
