Colors
You might have guessed from the fact that Egyptian tombs are so lavishly decorated that they have a thing for visual art, and that includes colors. And because pretty much everything in ancient Egy...
Clothing
Clothes make the man, they say—and the woman, and the god. Both Julius and Amos Kane are sharp dressers according to mortal standards, as though they're saying, "Yeah, we're secretly magicians, w...
Names
In Egyptian magic, names grant power. Here's how Thoth explains it: "Everything in Creation has a secret name… Even gods. To know a being's secret name is to have power over that creature" (23.14...
The Ankh
Drawn like a cross with a loop at the top, the ankh is an ancient Egyptian symbol for life. Even Sadie, with little knowledge of Egyptian stuff at the novel's start, knows an ankh when she sees one...