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Gunn leaned forward as he read the article Then he slumped into his seat and loosened his tie “Hira to need some coffee”

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St Julian Perl his favorite paisley robe, when the phone rang He reached past a stack of open books and a plate of half-eaten Danish, to answer a brass telephone salvaged from a 1940s luxury liner

“Perlinated deep in his massive frame

“Hi, Julian It’s Summer”

“Well, hello, Miss Pitt” His voice s in the Nile Valley?”

“Insufferably hot, and as dry as a naked martini I hope I didn’t wake you”

Perllanced at an antique clock ht-fifteen a around with your inquiry”

“So you received my email?”

“Indeed It’s quite a tale you two have cooked up Egyptian princesses and ancient plagues”

“It does sound rather unbelievable,” she said “That’s anted to run it by your learned eye, as well as to ask if you had any research on Princess Meritaten fleeing Egypt by sea”

Perltime friend of the Pitt family, was perhaps the world’s foreton was packed to the rafters with ship logbooks, sailing narratives, and maritime history books The heavily built historian, known for his fondness of goure of sea vessels, froout canoes to the latest cruise ships

He chuckled into the phone “I’ood one, Bob Samuelson out of Columbia We had a nice chat about your discoveries He confirs about the Habiru and their connection to Meritaten are quite stunning, particularly the Aue

“As your British archeologist noted,” Perl the reign of Akhenaten that may have killed me fact After Akhenaten, no pharaoh sired a e, there was a long-ter”

“That’s curious,” Suue, Meritaten may have had some sort of cure in the form of the Apium of Faras”