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The main protagonist and narrator is sinuhe, priestphysician to the pharaohs amenhotep iii and akhenaten called akhnaton in the story, whose consort, nefertiti, is the subject of the above quotation. It was first published in finnish in 1945, and in an abridged english translation by naomi walford in 1949, from swedish rather than finnish. With egyptian literature, we have little evidence of this original context. Mika waltaris 1945 novel the egyptian was turned into a deluxe color epic film by 20th century fox in 1954 and was nominated for an academy award a year later. The great ancient egyptian civilization dates back over six thousand years, thats a very long time. Free ebooks library download pdf ebooks, read ebooks online free in the sense of freedom. Mika toimi waltari was a writer, best known for his bestselling novel the egyptian. As a boy, he witnessed the finnish civil war in helsinki.
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