The Scepter of the Nile

What does the first queen of Egypt have in common with an historian from Tangier, an archaeologist from Tel Aviv and a private investigator from Houston, Texas? What they have in common is a simple metal box that contains a smaller, intricately constructed wooden box meant to be hidden forever. It no longer is. In the wrong hands, what this small wooden box contains could doom humanity. There are tomb raiders and artifact thieves who will do anything to make the box theirs. They will kill and torture seemingly innocent men and women and they will kidnap children just to claim it. What is this mysterious artifact? The Scepter will answer this question. The Scepter is the first book in The Scepter of the Nile series.