History offers shelter to all kinds of legends, myths and, why not, also mysteries with certain semblance of certainty. Because anyone who delves into undiscovered ancient worlds can easily find controversial spaces compared to the official chronicles.
From apocryphal texts of all kinds to relics or details that escape the most purist historical interpretation. Thanks to guys like Nacho Ares, whether on the airwaves or on paper, delving into past civilizations is an amazing journey towards the presentation and sometimes the discovery of the most incredible mysteries in the future of humanity in this world.
Evoking the already disappeared Terenci moix or to so many others who made Egypt their literary base, Nacho Ares offers us in his fascinating books glimpses of the civilization of civilizations around the Nile River as a watchman of a channel of time that led thanks to them to much of what we are now...
Top 3 recommended novels by Nacho Ares
the white pyramid
Beyond all that wisdom collected by the Egyptians, and discovered as it has been unearthed and interpreted, their interpretation of life after death, with its rites and paraphernalia, lead us to suggestive approaches about that afterlife. Maybe we've missed something. Perhaps Khufu still has secrets to reveal. Nacho Ares turns on the chronoviewer so that we can discover so much to know about pharaohs and immortality...
An exciting novel that takes us into the deepest secrets of ancient Egypt through one of its most emblematic monuments: the Great Pyramid of Cheops.
Pharaoh Cheops plans the construction of what will be his eternal abode, a colossal tomb designed to withstand the passing of the centuries and the perfidious intentions of tomb robbers.
There is only one man in the entire kingdom capable of fulfilling the pharaoh's wishes: Djedi, a mysterious young priest dedicated to the study of dark texts. He will be in charge of turning the pyramid into a magical and impregnable fortress, the perfect abode for the sovereign's eternal rest. To do so, however, he must confront the betrayals of the court that threaten to send him prematurely to the realm of the dead.
History, magic and intrigue come together in this exciting adventure that recreates the construction of one of the most important and enigmatic monuments of Egyptian culture.
Daughter of the sun
At book the daughter of the sun, Nacho Ares masterfully delves, as a good Egyptologist that he is, in a specific period of the Egyptian Empire in which Thebes was still known as Uaset, which leads us beyond a thousand years before Christ.
The large city, prosperous and organized around the bed of the Nile, is suffering from a brutal plague that is spreading among the population with dire consequences for a large part of its citizens. Little by little, the large city is decreasing its population in the face of a disease that has no signs of ever ending.
Meanwhile, between misery, disease and destruction, the priests hide in their privileges and in their respected figure to continue in their unbreakable status, similar to that of Pharaoh Akhenaten himself.
The extreme situation that exists in the city strains the position of the pharaoh to the maximum, who decides to dispossess so many privileges and perks from the parasitic religious caste.
The priests of the god Amon rebel and will not hesitate to incite the will of the people against their pharaoh. They control the deep-rooted beliefs of the people and consider that they can put them on their side no matter what, frightening them as almost always or even stirring them up through that same fear of Amun.
The conflict between the two powerful factions moves an interesting plot that presents us in a pleasant and precious way the lives of each other, at the level of any of the strata in which that remote society was established. Special consideration has the character of Isis, who became an advisor to her powerful brother the Pharaoh.
The dream of the pharaohs
The best thing about historians with as much knowledge of their subject as Nacho Ares, is that they may be able to narrate, around the closest chronology to the events, with that point of adventure that closes on the enigmas that pass by the most profane eyes. unnoticed...
Egypt, XNUMXth century. The discovery of an important cache of royal mummies in Deir el-Bahari hides a mystery that goes back many centuries... No one should desecrate the sleep of the pharaohs...
Egyptologist Émile Brugsch tries to find out the origin of some valuable objects that have appeared in the antique shops of Luxor. His instinct tells him that, behind those objects that are sold as souvenirs to tourists, lies a dense network of traffickers who act without the slightest scruple, protected by corrupt local authorities.
What both he and the tomb robbers ignore is that this place that is being mercilessly looted also hides the proof of something that happened many centuries ago, when the pharaohs ruled Egypt: a terrible history marked by greed, betrayal and cruelest of revenge. An adventure that recreates one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the XNUMXth century while immersing us in the exciting court intrigues of ancient Egypt.
