The Court of the Pharaohs

The “MediaBook” studio presents an audiobook by the famous English novelist Henry Rider Haggard—“The Judgment of the Pharaohs.” His works are well known to us through “Solomon’s Mines” and “Daughter of Montezuma,” but those two books are only a small part of the author’s rich creative legacy.

When he saw at the British Museum a plaster cast of the head of an ancient Egyptian statue, Smith fell in love with the queen Ma-Mi depicted in the cast. He studied Egyptology and went to Egypt to find the tomb of the woman he had come to love. After 2 years, he found it…