House of Scorpion: A Tale of Predynastic Egypt

Fourth novel in a series about Predynastic Egypt, following Daughter of the Falcon God (5453-5439 BC), The Potter (4009-3997 BC), and The Women and the Boatman (3456-3436 BC). House of Scorpion (3260-3250 BC) is the story of the mightiest of the kings who reigned in the southern section of the Nile valley in the century before Narmer unified the North and South, a time when trade was expanding beyond the delta and along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, when the first rudimentary attempts at writing were being made, when bureaucracies were being established, when the valley’s proto-kingdoms began to combine. House of Scorpion is a tale of the men and women who laid the groundwork for the creation of the Egyptian state, the greatest and longest lasting civilization the world has ever known.