Scroll of Saqqara // Mirage — Pauline Gedge

A tale of magic, power and unnatural lust set in Ancient Egypt. Prince Khwaemwaset seeks the mysterious Scroll of Thoth, which will give its possessor the power to raise the dead and thus attain immortality, but he encounters dark forces which he should never have awakened.

MIRAGE is the US title, published 1991.

Original CAN & UK title: SCROLL OF SAQQARA (1990)