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Originally Posted by ShellShock
"Norman Mailer’s dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti...
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Instant fail.
Rameses II ruled in the 19th Dynasty, not the 18th. His wife was
Nefertari, not
Nefertiti. (Nefertiti was the wife of Akhenaten, who did indeed rule in the 18th Dynasty.)
There's nothing I hate more than authors (or publishers) who can't be bothered to get basic facts right
.