Film, Video Amelia Peabody's Egypt
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- Amelia Peabody's Egypt
- Summary
- Elizabeth Peters, creator of the popular Amelia Peabody mystery series, discussed her latest book, her beloved main characters the Emersons and Egypt past and present.
- Event Date
- November 04, 2003
- Notes
- - Under the pen name Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Mertz has written 15 historical mysteries set in Egypt featuring Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, a husband-and-wife team of Victorian Egyptologists. In addition to the Amelia Peabody series, she has written approximately 50 thrillers under the pen names of Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. In real life, she is an expert on Egypt who holds a Ph.D. in the subject from the University of Chicago and is the author (writing under her own name) of two important scholarly works on Egyptology: "Red Land, Black Land: The World of the Ancient Egyptians," and "Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: The Story of Egyptology."
- Running Time
- 56 minutes 11 seconds
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