Sinuhe knew that without the proper funerary rites, he would not live eternally in the Duat, the Egyptian afterlife. He frequently discussed his homesickness with Amunenshi, but the ruler insisted ...

In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and ...