Publisher's Synopsis
Book 1: Cleopatra to Christ -- Using many strands of contemporary evidence, Ralph Ellis has pieced together a historical jigsaw puzzle which demonstrates that the biblical Jesus was directly descended from Cleopatra VII, the most famous queen of Egypt. But this is not all, for in piecing this story together it would seem that Jesus also had an aristocratic Roman and royal Parthian ancestry too; and it is the latter bloodline element that explains the appearance of Persian Magi at his birth. Book 2: Scota, Egyptian Queen of the Scots -- The legends of Ireland and Scotland tell a fantastic tale of an Egyptian queen and her Greek husband, who were exiled from Egypt at some point during the second millennium BC. These early Celtic myths were finally set down in a 14th century book called 'Scotichronicon', but is it based more upon fact or fiction? Historians have taken the story to be complete fiction; but there are many elements that demonstrate that the authors knew a great deal about the ancient history and language of Egypt. Ralph Ellis has taken a lateral look at this mythology, and found many links and associations that lead to one inescapable conclusion -- that the extraordinary tale of Queen Scota and King Gaythelos is probably true.
