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The Mask of Akhnaten, a standalone juvenile mystery novel by Robert Silverberg.

Publisher's Blurb – Jacket Flaps
"The water was rising. A world was drowning, a world half as old as time. A huge dam, the newest of the monuments of Egypt, had risen to throttle the Nile, and moment by moment, as the penned-up water mounted, the relics of the past were being swallowed up."

This novel tells of the real-life adventure fifteen-year-old Tom Lloyd steps into when he and his journalist uncle join an archaeological expedition in the Upper Nile Valley. In a desperate effort to unearth all they can before the Aswan High Dam is completed, archaeologists from Europe and America are speeding up their explorations. Dr. Falke's dig begins as a routine excavation of an ancient trading post, but shortly after the young American arrives events take an extraordinary twist: the lost tomb of the fabled Pharaoh Akhnaten is discovered intact. The three-thousand-year-old mystery surrounding this rebel king is about to be solved when a new, more sinister mystery springs up. The tomb is broken into and a priceless relic is stolen. The role Tom plays in the recovery of the treasure provides a climax charged with suspense, danger, and fast-paced action.

The author's vivid descriptions of Egypt, archaeological operations, and Egyptian art and history make this adventure tale unusually fascinating and informative.

About the author
ROBERT SILVERBERG was born in Brooklyn, New York, and began writing when he was still a teenager. Since his graduation from Columbia University in 1956, he has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction for young readers and adults, as well as a number of science-fiction magazine articles. Among his books dealing with archaeology – a favorite subject of his – are Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations, Empires in the Dust, and Great Adventures in Archaeology. When Mr. Silverberg is not traveling abroad, he resides with his wife in New York City, in a house once owned by Fiorello La Guardia.