Omm Sety's Egypt: A Story of Ancient Mysteries, Secret Lives, and the Lost History of the Pharaohs

by Hanny El Zeini, Catherine Dees

Overview

Revelations in Egyptology, based on the diaries of Dorothy Eady, better known as Omm Sety.

Omm Sety, a brilliant, adventuring Englishwoman, worked under some of the greatest Egyptologists of the 20th century and "saw" into the past. Hers is a story of ancient love – of gods, pyramids, pharaohs and queens, and treasures that wait beneath the sand.

In Omm Sety's Egypt, the authors present never-before-seen episodes from her truly incredible life, including important revelations about Egypt's lost history. Hanny el Zeini was her close friend during the many years she lived in the ancient holy city of Abydos. It was a friendship filled with star-lit evenings among the ruins of ancient temples, speaking of the mysteries of this land they both loved. Dr. el Zeini was her trusted confidant to whom she revealed her secret other life in 19th Dynasty Egypt. Shortly before her death in 1981, she gave him her diaries, which chronicled her life in two worlds.

Drawing on Omm Sety's diaries and on hundreds of hours of recorded conversations and Dr. el Zeini's own writings, co-author Catherine Dees brings this extraordinary material together into a story that asks the reader to suspend disbelief and enter into the mystery that was Omm Sety.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780976763130
Publisher:	St. Lynn's Press
Publication date:	11/24/2006
Pages:	350
Sales rank:	124,729
Product dimensions:	6.08(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Hanny el Zeini is the retired director of Egypt's national sugar industry, a lifelong amateur Egyptologist and closest confidant of Omm Sety, with whom he recorded hundreds of hours of conversations about her strange life in two worlds, and the unsolved mysteries of Egyptian history.

Catherine Dees is a California writer and editor with an abiding love for ancient Egypt and its brilliant, still-mysterious legacy. She is the author of several historical and romance novels and was co-producer of Continuum: the Immortality Principle, a major public exhibit that explored the limits of consciousness.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"The authors navigate this explosive material with elegance and sympathy...readers may have trouble putting this book down." John Anthony West, author, The Serpent in the Sky

"Omm Sety knew things she could not have known without some extraordinary extension of consciousness." Stephan A. Schwartz, author, Opening to the Infinite

Editorial Reviews

"This is a fascinating read, telling of contradictions of scholarly work, of informed speculation and of her deep and personal connection to the past." -Ancient Egypt Magazine

"The authors navigate this explosive material with elegance and sympathy...readers may have trouble putting this book down." -John Anthony West, author, The Serpent in the Sky

"Omm Sety knew things she could not have known without some extraordinary extension of consciousness." -Stephan A. Schwartz, author, Opening to the Infinite

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