内容简介：
One of the most realistic, fictional accounts of ancient Egyptian life ever penned, Scribeas Ascent is the first novel in the Amenhotep, Son of Hapu: A Tale of Egypt series. As Egyptas foremost A(c)minent grise, Amenhotep narrates in Scribeas Ascent his rise from a miserable provincial backwater to a position second only to Pharaohas in power. The story unfolds as Egypt is on the verge of a cultural and religious upheaval that threatens everything the aged scribe cherishes. Tenaciously devoted to tradition, betrayed by his family, and with a new king, his one-time pupil, plotting to destroy him, Amenhotep now understands he played a pivotal role in triggering the coming catastrophe, an era later called the aAmarna Revolution.a To avoid everlasting damnation, Amenhotep begins to plead his case: that his single purpose in life was to preserve the established orderathe perfection of things at the beginningaagainst change, confusion, and chaos.