The Day of All Days enchanted me, fascinated me and managed to project me into the story. I lived the reading of the book "from within" together with the cosmopolitan crowd of the protagonists of the story, with whom I shared amazement, dramas, loves, defeats and successes. It is the first time, at least for me, that an archaeological event, the discovery of the tomb of the young pharaoh Tu
tankhamun, has managed to fascinate me to the point of reading the book in one breath.
I thank the author for having revealed to me after 3,300 years, with a breathtaking story, the mysterious world of the ancient Egyptians, the complex world of archaeologists and their eccentric patrons and that colorful côté of characters that animate the story: from famous thieves of historical artifacts to Lawrence of Arabia, up to some European royal families ...
For me, the book, so attentive to historical reconstruction, supported however by stupendous metaphysical digressions, will by right become part of the essential texts for those who want to know the history of the very young pharaoh Tutankhamun, and when we will visit the museum that collects them the remains, he will materialize in the features described in the book, very young, beautiful, fragile, but stubbornly determined to defend his role and the search for the reasons that led to the total removal of his predecessor and father from the history of his family by the its ruthless controllers: the priestly class. Tutankhamun a character to be admired, remembered and loved.
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