Arthur Phillips search for meaning in life. The novel was well received commercially and critically, winning Phillips the 2003 Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award for Best First Fiction, as well as other honors. "The Egyptologist" is structured as journals, letters, telegrams, and drawings, from several different points of view. The main story is set in 1922 and follows a hopeful explorer who, working near Howard Carter (the man who discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun), risks more and more of his life and savings on an apparently quixotic effort to find the tomb of an apocryphal Egyptian king. The book was an
Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra is a novel written by Moyra Caldecott in 1989. It was first published in 1990 as "Daughter of Ra" in paperback by Arrow Books Limited (). Based on the lives of Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun. Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra is part of Moyra Caldecott’s Egyptian sequence, which also includes "" and "". Chronologically, Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra takes place after the other two books. Ankhesenamun has never been safe in all her short life – not even with her beloved husband and half brother Tutankhamun.