The book unfolds as the fictional travel journal of Miss Emily Sands, who sets off in 1926 along the Nile seeking the mythical Tomb of Osiris, four years after King Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered.
 
Here are just a few of Egyptology's special features:
 An extravagantly gilded cover, featuring a raised Horus hawk pendant with three encrusted gems.
A playable game of Senet — ancient Egyptian checkers — including board, pieces, original-style dice, and rules.
A souvenir booklet showing how to read simple hieroglyphs
A scrap of textured "mummy cloth"
A large, jeweled Eye of Re “amulet” embedded in the last page of the book.