Harrowhark the Ninth, Bone Empress, Crepuscular Queen, Marchioness of Bones. The first in what’s likely to be a (slow) portrait series. I don’t think I’ve ever read a set of books so fast I am obsessed.
NOT EVERYTHING IN EGYPT IS SAND NOT EVERYTHING IN EGYPT ANCIENT OR MODERN IS DESERT EGYPT LITERALLY IS A BIGASS RIVER VALLEY + DELTA THAT IS GREEN AND HAS PLANTS AND SHIT BECAUSE OF THE RIVER NOT. EVERYTHING. IS. FUCKING. SAND.
“but the pyramids were built in the desert and th-”
okay one: OBVIOUSLY THEY’RE NOT BUILDING GIANT FUCK OFF MONUMENTS TOO CLOSE TO WHERE WATER CAN GET TO IT BECAUSE AMONG OTHER THINGS THEY MAY HAVE FIGURED OUT THAT THIS WOULD NOT LEAD TO CONTINUED STRUCTURAL SOUNDNESS OF ROUGHLY 6 MILLION TONS OF ROCK
and secondly the Giza pyramids are built far closer to the valley than you think if you’ve never been to Egypt:
