# Sphinx

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- Book: [Sphinx](https://www.bookquiver.com/tobsha-learner/sphinx) ([Sphinx.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tobsha-learner/sphinx.md))
- Authors: [Tobsha Learner](https://www.bookquiver.com/tobsha-learner)
- Publisher: Sphere
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4811-500-6
- Published: 2010-01-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Alexandria, Egypt, 1977. During a clandestine dive to an old shipwreck, archaeologist Isabella Warnock unearths an artefact unlike anything she has ever seen: an astrarium, a powerful ancient device rumoured to have shaped the destinies of pharaos and kings since the beginning of time. But her discovery comes at a terrible price, and it falls to her husband Oliver to keep the priceless object safe. Grief-stricken, Oliver refuses to believe in the astrarium's mysterious significance - until he finds himself up against someone willing to go to any lengths to obtain the powerful device. Catapulted into an extraordinary world of conspiracy and Egyptology, where age-old sorcery and ancient legends clash violently with modern-day ambitions and the gritty world of oil exploration, Oliver has little time to get the astrarium to safety, before he, too, pays with his life...