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L'affaire Toutankhamon

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Au début du siècle, un jeune pharaon inconnu repose depuis des millénaires, sous son masque d'or, dans les ténèbres d'un tombeau qui était resté inviolé. Il s'appelle Toutankhamon. Deux hommes vont l'arracher à l'oubli et tenter de résoudre son énigme.

Trahisons, jalousies : l'affaire Toutankhamon commence, sur laquelle plane une étrange malédiction. Elle se poursuivra durant un demi-siècle de drames, de folies et d'épisodes hallucinants. Racontée par Christian Jacq, historien aussi rigoureux que visionnaire inspiré, elle atteint la dimension d'une légende épique.

"L'affaire Toutankhamon" a reçu le prix des Maisons de la presse 1992.

512 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1992
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512 pages, Paperback
Published
January 1, 1994 by Pocket
ISBN
9782266052351
ASIN
2266052357
Language
French
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  • Howard Carter

    Howard Carter

    Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, noted as a primary discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.In 1891, at the age of 17, Carter, a talented young artist, was sent out to Egypt by the Egypt Explor...

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christian jacq

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Christian Jacq is a French author and Egyptologist. He has written several novels about ancient Egypt, notably a five book suite about pharaoh Ramses II, a character whom Jacq admires greatly.

Jacq's interest in Egyptology began when he was thirteen, and read History of Ancient Egyptian Civilization by Jacques Pirenne. This inspired him to write his first novel. He first visited Egypt when he was seventeen, went on to study Egyptology and archaeology at the Sorbonne, and is now one of the world's leading Egyptologists.

By the time he was eighteen, he had written eight books. His first commercially successful book was Champollion the Egyptian, published in 1987. As of 2004 he has written over fifty books, including several non-fiction books on the subject of Egyptology.

He and his wife later founded the Ramses Institute, which is dedicated to creating a photographic description of Egypt for the preservation of endangered archaeological sites.

Between 1995-1997, he published his best selling five book suite Ramsès, which is today published in over twenty-five countries. Each volume encompasses one aspect of Ramesses' known historical life, woven into a fictional tapestry of the ancient world for an epic tale of love, life and deceit.

Jacq's series describes a vision of the life of the pharaoh: he has two vile power-hungry siblings, Shanaar, his decadent older brother, and Dolora, his corrupted older sister who married his teacher. In his marital life, he first has Isetnofret (Iset) as a mistress (second Great Wife), meets his true love Nefertari (first Great Wife) and after their death, gets married to Maetnefrure in his old age. Jacq gives Ramesses only three biological children: Kha'emweset, Meritamen (she being the only child of Nefertari, the two others being from Iset) and Merneptah. The other "children" are only young officials trained for government and who are nicknamed "sons of the pharaoh".

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plasticruler
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April 17,2025
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Scoprendo Tuta

Il romanzo tratta un evento storico di impareggiabile interesse, che l'autore è riuscito solo parzialmente a suscitare; ha smarrito un po' il senso della scoperta, togliendo al lettore proprio quel legame che avrebbe dovuto tenerlo abbracciato alle pagine.
Da leggere per farsi un quadro degli avvenimenti che hanno portato alla scoperta del faraone più famoso di tutti i tempi, non tanto per riviverne il fascino.
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No-Life-101
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April 17,2025
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Excellent book if you have visited Luxor and Valley of the Kings! I wish I had read this before my trip..
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screwballer
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April 17,2025
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I enjoyed this book. It ended rather abruptly. I would have like a few more details at what Carter was up to at the end. But still a good read. Thank you to the Author!
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ronyharsono
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April 17,2025
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Bien qu’on apprenne plein de choses sur les difficultés de Howard Carter et sur le contexte des fouilles archéologiques en Égypte, le roman est long, laborieux et redondant. On finit par se lasser.
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MokkeKat
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April 17,2025
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I always enjoy seeing Egypt through the eyes of Christian Jacq.
I've said before how much I wish I could read his works in their native French. A translation can easily detract from the feel of a novel, and there were a few times in this book where I paused; thrown by a word choice or sentence structure. I maintain that the translation style of Mary Feeney in Jacq's Ramses series was superior, despite a few anachronistic idioms here and there, but The Tutankhamun Affair read well overall.
To be fair, it's hard to go wrong when you put me and Egypt together.
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FancyBratCat
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April 17,2025
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I think I like his novels set in ancient Egypt more but I enjoyed this one too. The finding of Tutankhamun is one of the most exciting things in egyptology.
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guenfo
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April 17,2025
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Simply delightful! I loved it to bits. Being an archaeologist I appreciated even more the descriptions about the excavation and the recording of artefacts. The details are amazing and offer a better understanding of the events which surrounded the discovery and early study of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Christian Jacq's books are always good but this one is mesmerizing.
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Mohireza
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April 17,2025
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I felt like this was wonderful historical fiction retelling of Howard Carter and his discovery of Tutankamun.
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