The Mystery Of The Pink Phoenix Papers - Plot & Excerpts
We pass through halls of jewelry and slabs of stone engraved with Egyptian symbols called hieroglyphics. At last we find it: the Pink Phoenix! It is in a case by itself. Its rose color glows against black velvet. A gold plaque reads as follows: THE NAME OF THIS SCARAB COMES FROM ITS UNIQUE COLOR AND THE ENGRAVING OF A PHOENIX ON ITS UNDERSIDE. THE PINK PHOENIX IS ONE OF THE GREAT TREASURES OF THE 18TH DYNASTY. DATING FROM CIRCA 1350 B.C., IT WAS ONE OF THE PRIZED POSSESSIONS OF QUEEN NEFERTITI, WHO BELIEVED IT TO HAVE MAGICAL POWERS. IT WAS DISCOVERED IN 1864 BY AN ENGLISH ARCHAEOLOGIST, VIOLET PILFER-SNODGES, WHOSE JOURNAL WAS LOST IN A LONDON HOUSEFIRE. STOLEN FROM LONDON’S VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM IN 1922, THE SCARAB RESURFACED YEARS LATER AT AN AUCTION IN BANGLADESH. “I’m certain that at least one copy of that diary survives,” says Dorothy as we leave the museum. Ravenous, we buy two falafels at a stand. “Fit for a pharaoh!” says Dorothy with glee. “I must find that journal,”
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