The Red Pyramid (2010)
The Red Pyramid is a 2010 serie:the_kane_chronicles book written by Rick Riordan.
Carter and Sadie Kane barely know each other. He travels the world with their Egyptologist father; she lives in London with their grandparents. A holiday visit to the British Museum is meant to fix that, until their father's experiment shatters an ancient tablet and looses the god Set. Suddenly the siblings are on the run, learning that the old Egyptian gods are awake and one of them wants the Kane family gone. Rick Riordan swaps Greek myth for the Nile here, splitting the narration between two very different, very funny voices.
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What is The Red Pyramid about?
Carter and Sadie Kane barely know each other. He travels the world with their Egyptologist father; she lives in London with their grandparents. A holiday visit to the British Museum is meant to fix that, until their father's experiment shatters an ancient tablet and looses the god Set. Suddenly the siblings are on the run, learning that the old Egyptian gods are awake and one of them wants the Kane family gone. Rick Riordan swaps Greek myth for the Nile here, splitting the narration between two very different, very funny voices.
When was The Red Pyramid published?
The Red Pyramid was published in 2010.
Who made The Red Pyramid?
The Red Pyramid was written by Rick Riordan.
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The Kanes' Egypt has plenty of screen cousins. Marvel's Moon Knight runs on the same waking-gods premise, with Khonshu pulling a mortal into divine feuds. The game Assassin's Creed Origins lets you walk a gorgeous ancient Egypt, and the 1999 film The Mummy matches Riordan's mix of tomb dust, banter and runaway curses.
Egyptian gods loose in the modern world
The Red Pyramid wakes the Egyptian pantheon in present-day museums and lets two siblings deal with the fallout. Assassin's Creed Origins rebuilds Cleopatra's Egypt street by street, The Mummy remains the most fun the genre ever had with a sarcophagus, and Moon Knight gives Khonshu a mentally fraying avatar in London.
Magic training houses and secret orders
Carter and Sadie spend The Red Pyramid learning magic from a secret order older than the pharaohs. If the House of Life is your favorite room, Hogwarts still runs the deepest curriculum across the first three Harry Potter books, and the School for Good and Evil sorts its students before they can object.
Ordinary kids, extraordinary doorways
The Red Pyramid starts with a museum visit that cracks the world open, the oldest trick in children's fantasy and still the best. The wardrobe does it in Narnia, the alethiometer does it for Lyra, The Magician's Nephew does it with rings, and Zathura does it with a board game that will not stop playing.