At the dawn of the 20th century, in the darkness of a hidden tomb deep in the Valley of the Kings, a young, unknown pharaoh lay beneath a golden mask, undisturbed for over a thousand years. His name was Tutankhamun.
Two English adventurers, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, were to wrest him from obscurity and attempt to solve the enigma surrounding him.
Jealously, betrayal, intrigue and madness: the Tutankhamun Affair was about to begin.
Combining historical fact with a potent imagination, Christian Jacq tells the incredible true story of the strange curse of Tutankhamun which was to wreak havoc among its unfortunate victims for the next half-century.
