The Watch Gods
by Barbara Wood
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The powerful tale of an Egyptologist determined to find a mythic treasure buried in the desert sand--even if it costs him his life. After losing a chance to be an assistant professor, Dr. Mark Davison is saved from unemployment by a stroke of extraordinary good fortune. A stranger arrives on his doorstep with an item any historian would envy--the journal of a Victorian Egyptologist who disappeared while looking for the legendary tomb of King Akhnaton. Mark accepts the offer to dig in the show more fabled sands of Tel el-Amarna to discover the grave--and a treasure that has eluded every seeker thus far. He then embarks on the journey to Egypt, leaving behind the woman he loves and finding himself in the company of two beautiful yet mysterious women. But Mark didn't bargain for the seven curses of the Watch Gods. Silent and stone-faced, the seven gigantic carved figures have stood sentinel at the entrance to the tomb for more than three thousand years, created by a fearful priesthood who knew that what they kept in everlasting quarantine must never be let loose. The guardians were charged with an evil power that could bring to life the oldest, most dreadful nightmares of mankind--nightmares that could annihilate the expedition that dares to disturb the tomb. But not even danger, myth, or legend will keep Mark from making the discovery of a lifetime. show lessTags
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Hace treinta y tres siglos reinaba en Egipto el faraón Ajenatón que, entre otras medidas revolucionarias, había sustituido la vieja religión por una monoteísta, lo que había perjudicado a los sacerdotes, y trasladado la capital de Tebas a Tell el-Amarna. A su muerte, toda su obra desapareció. Incluso sus restos fueron enterrados por los sacerdotes de la antigua religión, de nuevo en el poder, en un lugar desconocido.En la California actual, el egiptólogo Mark Davison lee el diario de una expedición a la zona de Amarna que acabó de forma desastrosa al morir todos sus componentes. Una muerte que, de un modo u otro, parece relacionada con una maldición que pesa sobre quienes violen determinada tumba, la tumba de alguien sin show more nombre...Los dioses guardianes es una novela de acción y de amor que se desenvuelve en el mundo, apasionante y misterioso, de las excavaciones arqueológicas. Una obra tan imaginativa, dinámica y rigurosa como se debe esperar del extraordinario talento de Barbara Wood show less
Jan 23, 2011Spanish
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- Canonical title
- The Watch Gods
- Original title
- The Watch Gods
- Original publication date
- 1981-05
- People/Characters
- Mark Davison
- Important places
- Egypt
- Dedication*
- Für Barbara Young
- First words*
- Er hielt in dem dunklen Gang inne, um sich den Schweiss vom Gesicht zu wischen, und dachte: So ist es also, wenn man stirbt...
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Uns gehört die Ewigkeit.
- Original language*
- Englisch
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Suspense & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Horror, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3573 .O5877 .W3 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- ISBNs
- 16
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