Susan H. (symphonie) reviewed The Hippopotamus Marsh (Lords of the Two Lands, Volume 1) on + 158 more book reviews
The Hyksos - interlopers from Asia Minor with Cretan and Minoan trading connections - ruled Egypt for over two hundred years, after the end of the Middle Kingdom. But in the middle of the Seventeenth Dynasty the descendants of the last true pharaohs rallied the native princes of Upper Egypt to rebel against the foreigners, their alien gods and ways. Seqenenra Tao, Prince of Weset, led the revolt. The Hippopotamus Marsh begins a trilogy that brings to vivid life the passions and intrigues which ushered in the great Eighteenth Dynasty.
