Beauty of Re
by Mark Gajewski
Set during the building of King Khufu’s great pyramid, between the years 2571
and 2566 BC, The Beadnet Dress is the story of the seamstress Maetkra, the
167th person to bear a sacred talisman given her family by the falcon god
nearly three thousand years earlier, detailing her rise from worker in King
Khufu’s pyramid village to become a member of his court, and her subsequent
fall. And it’s the story of Ahmes, the man Maetkra loves, low-born on an
estate in the Nile delta, his life caught up in and shaped by royal
machinations beyond his control.
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and 2566 BC, The Beadnet Dress is the story of the seamstress Maetkra, the
167th person to bear a sacred talisman given her family by the falcon god
nearly three thousand years earlier, detailing her rise from worker in King
Khufu’s pyramid village to become a member of his court, and her subsequent
fall. And it’s the story of Ahmes, the man Maetkra loves, low-born on an
estate in the Nile delta, his life caught up in and shaped by royal
machinations beyond his control.
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