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Bestselling novelist Marie Benedict’s DAUGHTER OF EGYPT
Host Diana Korte speaks with Marie Benedict, known for her suspenseful historical fiction, about her 10th book, DAUGHTER OF EGYPT, a story of two ambitious women who lived centuries apart. In the 1920s, British archeologist Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon of Highclere Castle (the real life Downton Abbey) made headlines around the world with the discovery of the treasure-filled tomb of the boy Pharaoh Tutankhamun—also known as King Tut. But behind it all stood Lady Evelyn Herbert—daughter of Lord Carnarvon who made the momentous find possible. Nearly 3,000 years earlier, another woman defied…
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