Prince in Exile

  senet

  A board game played by ancient Egyptians. It involved two players each with seven pieces and was played on a rectangular board divided into thirty squares. Archaeologists have found many senet boards in tombs, but haven’t been able to work out what the rules of the game were.

  stele (plural stelae)

  A slab of stone or wood with an inscription or painting on it used in funerals. The stele had prayers to the gods on them, often mentioning all the offerings and worship that the dead person had given to the gods when he or she was alive.

  underworld, afterlife

  The ancient Egyptians believed that the earth was a flat disc. Beneath the earth was the underworld, a dangerous place. Egyptians believed that after they died they had to first pass through the underworld before they could live forever in the afterlife.

  vizier

  A very important person. He was the pharaoh’s chief minister. He made sure that Egypt was run exactly the way the pharaoh wanted it.

  First published in 2001

  by

  an imprint of Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd

  Locked Bag 22, Newtown

  NSW 2042 Australia

  www.walkerbooks.com.au

  This ebook edition published in 2014

  The moral right of the author has been asserted.

  Text © 2001 Carole Wilkinson

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise – without the prior written permission of the publisher.

  National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:

  Wilkinson, Carole, 1950– author.

  Ramose: prince in exile / Carole Wilkinson.

  Series: Wilkinson, Carole, 1950– Ramose series; bk. 1.

  For primary school age.

  Subjects: Princes – Juvenile fiction.

  Egypt – Juvenile fiction.

  A823.3

  ISBN: 978-1-742590-05-9 (ePub)

  ISBN: 978-1-925081-59-6 (e-PDF)

  ISBN: 978-1-742590-03-5 (.PRC)

  Cover image (Luxor Museum Statue) © GettyImages.com/Hisham Ibrahim

  Cover image (hieroglyphs) © GettyImages.com/Adam Crowley

  Map by Mini Goss

  Other books by Carole Wilkinson

  Ramose and the Tomb Robbers

  Ramose: Sting of the Scorpion

  Ramose: Wrath of Ra

  The Dragon Companion

  The Dragonkeeper series

  Dragonkeeper

  Garden of the Purple Dragon

  Dragon Moon

  Dragon Dawn (prequel)

  Blood Brothers

  Shadow Sister

  Young Adult

  Sugar Sugar

  Stagefright

  Picture Book

  The Night We Made the Flag

  True Tales series

  Ned Kelly’s Jerilderie Letter

  The Drum series

  Black Snake

  The Games

  Alexander the Great

  Fromelles: Australia’s Bloodiest Day at War

  The Beat series

  Hatshepsut: The Lost Pharaoh of Egypt

  Find out about Carole’s books on her

  website www.carolewilkinson.com.au