The Curse of Kalaan

, Egypt - Nove

h the regions of Lower, Middle and Upper Egypt and, in the summer, during the annual flood season, she generously fertilized her banks with a rich black silt which the people called "kem

, and date trees, as well as lotus and reeds. And when the eyes finally broke away from the bewitching green to look beyond this

temperatures. Its message was silent, terrifying and macabre: "From this point on, all life ends." In places like this heaven and h

f the Nile, boats belonging to Akhenaten, the tenth pharaoh of the eig

and gave it the name of Akhetaten or "Horizon of Aten." Akhetaten was a spectacular city, with magnificent architecture, in red bricks and talatats2; and within

erted at the end of Akenaten's reign, the capital was no more than a pile of ruins swept by the burning desert winds, and watched ove

s and the Horus- and a small felucca5.TheIsis and the felucca belonged to Jean-Fran?ois Champollion's Franco-Tuscan expedition, which had just arrived at

mana, an unexpected encounter would perm