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Tutankhamun and the Luxor Widow
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781937774080
Publisher: Adair Digital
Published: May 31 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Tutankhamun's tomb hid many secrets - but one of them did not stay in Egypt.
For three thousand years, a small collection of unremarkable objects waited in silence.
Not gold. Not treasure.
Something older. Something meant to be forgotten.
In 1922, during the winter Howard Carter opened Tutankhamun's tomb, a grieving widow carried those objects out of Egypt in a simple casket - no customs, no questions. Only love. Only sorrow.
A century later, in a quiet family home, they are discovered again.
When Emily and her daughter Abagail open an inherited armoire with a stubborn drawer, they uncover an old suitcase hidden deep within. Inside are the same mysterious items once carried home from Luxor - objects preserved without understanding, passed down without explanation.
Their shapes are simple. Their purpose is lost. Their meaning is buried in time.
As mother and daughter begin to trace the story behind what they've found, the objects draw them into a lineage shaped by memory, grief, and acts of quiet devotion. Each generation carried them forward, not knowing why - only that they mattered.
Secrets Carried by the Dead.
What begins as a modest discovery becomes a journey across time, linking the living to the forgotten and the ordinary to the sacred. A haunting historical novella of overlooked lives and fragile inheritances - where some stories survive in full, some survive in fragments, and some survive only because someone cared enough to carry them forward.
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