Prince in Exile
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senet
A board game played by ancient Egyptians. It involved two players each with seven pieces and was played on a rectangular board divided into thirty squares. Archaeologists have found many senet boards in tombs, but haven’t been able to work out what the rules of the game were.
stele (plural stelae)
A slab of stone or wood with an inscription or painting on it used in funerals. The stele had prayers to the gods on them, often mentioning all the offerings and worship that the dead person had given to the gods when he or she was alive.
underworld, afterlife
The ancient Egyptians believed that the earth was a flat disc. Beneath the earth was the underworld, a dangerous place. Egyptians believed that after they died they had to first pass through the underworld before they could live forever in the afterlife.
vizier
A very important person. He was the pharaoh’s chief minister. He made sure that Egypt was run exactly the way the pharaoh wanted it.
First published in 2001
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Text © 2001 Carole Wilkinson
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:
Wilkinson, Carole, 1950– author.
Ramose: prince in exile / Carole Wilkinson.
Series: Wilkinson, Carole, 1950– Ramose series; bk. 1.
For primary school age.
Subjects: Princes – Juvenile fiction.
Egypt – Juvenile fiction.
A823.3
ISBN: 978-1-742590-05-9 (ePub)
ISBN: 978-1-925081-59-6 (e-PDF)
ISBN: 978-1-742590-03-5 (.PRC)
Cover image (Luxor Museum Statue) © GettyImages.com/Hisham Ibrahim
Cover image (hieroglyphs) © GettyImages.com/Adam Crowley
Map by Mini Goss
Other books by Carole Wilkinson
Ramose and the Tomb Robbers
Ramose: Sting of the Scorpion
Ramose: Wrath of Ra
The Dragon Companion
The Dragonkeeper series
Dragonkeeper
Garden of the Purple Dragon
Dragon Moon
Dragon Dawn (prequel)
Blood Brothers
Shadow Sister
Young Adult
Sugar Sugar
Stagefright
Picture Book
The Night We Made the Flag
True Tales series
Ned Kelly’s Jerilderie Letter
The Drum series
Black Snake
The Games
Alexander the Great
Fromelles: Australia’s Bloodiest Day at War
The Beat series
Hatshepsut: The Lost Pharaoh of Egypt
Find out about Carole’s books on her
website www.carolewilkinson.com.au