Book Review

[redfiona99]

The Tutankhamun Conspiracy - Gerald O'Farrell

Here at LibraryThing - http://www.librarything.com/work/1207589/details/28961404

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This is possibly the worst book I have ever read. While I appreciate a good conspiracy theory, there is a saying that the more outlandish the theory is, the more evidence it has to have to back it up. None is given in this, only the author's gut instincts and feeling.

The author feels Carnarvon's and Carter's deception, he feels that they must have found papyri that show that Tutenkhamun was Jesus and that Ahkenaten was Moses, and offers nothing to suggest why. Given that he also suggest that the deaths associated with the dig were due to the Secret Service bumping people off because these papyri showed how similar Tutenkhamun's story is to Jesus's, one wonders why archeologists investigating Zoroaster since his story too is very similar to Jesus's.

Linking the death of Freud into this garbled narrative is an other added flavour of bizarreness in a theory too garbled to be possible, in a book too badly written to be recommend to all but die-hard conspiracy nuts (and not even to them, I think they could write better) and generally, it's a terrible book.


It's terrible and I almost want to send it to fangirl_lizzie to see her reaction.

Comments

[thedevilchicken.livejournal.com]

Even just reading this post, I think my BA (and my ba, I guess, if we're following the Egypt theme) wants to cry! I'm used to the nutters who think Tutankhamun was done in by his vizier and even the ones who think Ancient Egypt was visited by aliens or the classic to do with Atlantis and pyramids in South America, but... but, Jesus? I'm scared.