CHAPTER 5
The Shemsu BenuMeredith returned in early September with some of the papyrus pieces translated. They were, he said, fragments from many different times and places, written sometimes in old Egyptian demotic, some Greek or Latin, with a smattering of hieroglyphs from earlier times.
‘Do any of them make sense?’ Jack asked.
‘My friend concentrated most on the largest fragment. Some of it had been eaten away by insects, and it seemed to have been added to from time to time. Mostly it was a list of names, starting with reference to Akhenaten. At first we thought it might be a genealogy, but the names don’t seem to have any royal family significance except, possibly, Setepenra, which was the name of one of his younger daughters. But that may be coincidence. However there does seem to
