![]() ![]() They arrive in Cairo, hearing the talk of the curse of the pharaohs. They spend Christmas with Walter and Evelyn and their children at Chalfont House Emerson and Amelia travel the next day, leaving Ramses with his cousins. Lady Baskerville arrives in Kent and asks them to finish the excavation started by her husband Lord Henry Baskerville, who died mysteriously just before opening a tomb in Luxor. Ramses is a precocious 4-year-old who can identify a bone as the femur of an animal. The Emersons are at home in Kent, England Emerson is a professor, teaching and writing a book, and they are raising their young son Ramses. The Curse of the Pharaohs is a historical mystery novel by Elizabeth Peters, first published in 1981 and the second in the Amelia Peabody series of novels it takes place in the excavation season of 1892–93. ![]()
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