“La conjura del Valle de los Reyes,” by Luis Melgar, blends Carter and Carnarvon with Lawrence of Arabia or Aleister Crowley in a joyous collage that celebrates the centenary of the discovery of the pharaoh's tomb.

We have a novel for this year of the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, which is coming up in November. It is “La conjura del Valle de los Reyes,” and it does not come in English from the Anglo-Saxon world but in Spanish and has just been published by La Esfera de los Libros in their collection of historical novels.

Its author is Luis Melgar (Madrid, 41 years old), who last year published in the same publishing house “La peregrina de Atón,” a novel about the time of Amarna (the same as the young pharaoh) that attributed a queer identity to Akhenaten. In “La conjura del Valle de los Reyes,” he really weaves a sensational collage, perfectly researched, set at the time of the most famous find in the history of archaeology.

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