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Christian Jacq

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Born: April 27 1947

Christian Jacq is a French author and Egyptologist. He has written several novels about ancient Egypt, notably a five book suite about pharaoh Ramses II, a character whom Jacq admires greatly.

Jacq's interest in Egyptology began when he was thirteen, and read History of Ancient Egyptian Civilization by Jacques Pirenne. This inspired him to write his first novel. He first visited Egypt when he was seventeen, went on to study Egyptology and archaeology at the Sorbonne, and is now one of the world's leading Egyptologists.

By the time he was eighteen, he had written eight books. His first commercially successful book was Champollion the Egyptian, published in 1987. As of 2004 he has written over fifty books, including several non-fiction books on the subject of Egyptology.

He and his wife later founded the Ramses Institute, which is dedicated to creating a photographic description of Egypt for the preservation of endangered archaeological sites.

Between 1995-1997, he published his best selling five book suite Ramsès, which is today published in over twenty-five countries. Each volume encompasses one aspect of Ramesses' known historical life, woven into a fictional tapestry of the ancient world for an epic tale of love, life and deceit.

Jacq's series describes a vision of the life of the pharaoh: he has two vile power-hungry siblings, Shanaar, his decadent older brother, and Dolora, his corrupted older sister who married his teacher. In his marital life, he first has Isetnofret as a mistress , meets his true love Nefertari and after their death, gets married to Maetnefrure in his old age. Jacq gives Ramesses only three biological children: Kha'emweset, Meritamen and Merneptah. The other "children" are only young officials trained for government and who are nicknamed "sons of the pharaoh".

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Christian Jacq

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Books from Christian Jacq

Ramses: The Son of Light

The Eternal Temple

The Battle of Kadesh

Ramses: The Lady of Abu Simbel

Ramses: Under the Western Acacia

Nefer the Silent

The Wise Woman

Paneb the Ardent

Beneath The Pyramid

Secrets of the Desert

The Tutankhamun Affair

For the Love of Philae

Champollion the Egyptian

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The Divine Worshipper

آخر أحلام كليوباترا

La justicia del visir

Il faraone nero

Il libro proibito. Il figlio di Ramses. Un giallo nell'Antico Egitto

Il ragazzo che sfidò Ramses il Grande