Death on the Nile.

Conspiracy, murder, revenge—it’s all at Saqqara, a cemetery of ancient Egypt’s rich and powerful.
Princess Idut didn’t live to adulthood. The limestone reliefs that line her mortuary chapel show her only as a child. Finely modeled scenes celebrating the abundance of the Nile River Valley surround her—fish and waterfowl, a crocodile snapping at a newborn hippo, cows with their calves, gaggles of geese—all normal decoration for a royal Egyptian burial. But something isn’t right.
“Idut has replaced someone else,” says Naguib Kanawati, professor of Egyptology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. “Look here,” he continues, pointing to a rough patch by Idut’s knee in a boating scene. “A foot has been erased, chiseled out and sanded View the rest of this article