The Egyptologist
What is the setting of The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips?

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Set in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, Ralph's find becomes the primary surroundings in which he goes insane and commits murder. Ralph transforms a series of empty rooms with only one containing unfinished columns from a dry hole to a tomb fit for a madman. He paints hieroglyphs and scenes all through the rooms and on the columns. He furnishes the rooms with objects, a dead cat and a dead man, both wrapped like mummies. He finishes his demented work of art with his own body wrapped in linen and doused with deadly chemicals.