The Egyptian by Mika Waltari - Book Review
The Egyptian By Mika Waltari Rating 5/5 Genres : Historical fiction, classics, Ancient Egypt, Akhenaten, Sinuhe, 2021-read, reviewed This book is a masterpiece!! Just like any masterpiece, it is thorough, has depth and is fantastic. And also like most historical fiction, it is based on few facts and rests itself on much conjecture/imagination of the author. Whoever tells it and however they tell it - its the same story - story of the reign and ruin of Akhenaten,the false prophet and king of Egypt - at the core with only some details altered. But what makes this such a good read is the depth of the story and the complete picture that is conveyed to the reader through the eyes of a head physician to the Pharoah, Sinuhe. I had great respect for him till the end when he gets himself embroiled in the affairs of kings and mixes politics into his former unbiased treatments there by using his potions to kill. He uses his noble professi...