Christian Jacq is a French author and Egyptologist. He has written several novels about ancient Egypt, notably a five book suite about pharaoh Ramses II, a character whom Jacq admires greatly. Jacq's interest in Egyptology began when he was thirteen, and read History of Ancient Egyptian Civilization by Jacques Pirenne. This inspired him to write his first novel. He first visited Egypt when he was seventeen, went on to study Egyptology and archaeology at the Sorbonne, and is now one of the world's leading Egyptologists. By the time he was eighteen, he had written eight books. His first commercially successful book was Champollion the Egyptian, published in 1987. As of 2004 he has written over fifty books, including several non-fiction books on the subject of Egyptology. He and his wife later founded the Ramses Institute, which is dedicated to creating a photographic description of Egypt for the preservation of endangered archaeological sites. Between 1995-1997, he published his best selling five book suite Ramsès, which is today published in over twenty-five countries. Each volume encompasses one aspect of Ramesses' known historical life, woven into a fictional tapestry of the ancient world for an epic tale of love, life and deceit. Jacq's series describes a vision of the life of the pharaoh: he has two vile power-hungry siblings, Shanaar, his decadent older brother, and Dolora, his corrupted older sister who married his teacher. In his marital life, he first has Isetnofret (Iset) as a mistress (second Great Wife), meets his true love Nefertari (first Great Wife) and after their death, gets married to Maetnefrure in his old age. Jacq gives Ramesses only three biological children: Kha'emweset, Meritamen (she being the only child of Nefertari, the two others being from Iset) and Merneptah. The other "children" are only young officials trained for government and who are nicknamed "sons of the pharaoh".
Series
Books
Que la vie est douce à l'ombre des palmes
Dernières nouvelles d'Égypte
2005
Tutankhamun
The Last Secret
1995
The Flaming Sword
2002
L'assassin de la Tour de Londres
1984
Néfertiti et Akhénaton
1990
La maledizione di Tutankhamon. Le indagini dell'ispettore Higgins
2016
The Great Magician
2006
Manhunt
2006
Meurtre sur invitation
2012
La Vengeance d'Anubis
2014
The War of the Crowns
2002
Ramses
Under the Western Acacia - Volume V
1997
Le crime du Sphinx
2015
La reine soleil
2001
O Egipto dos Grandes Faraós
1981
The Conspiracy Of Evil
2003
Mozart III. El Hermano del Fuego
2007
Barrage sur le Nil
1994
L'assassinat de Don Juan
2014
Ramses
The Son of Light - Volume I
1995
Master Hiram and King Solomon
1989
Die Braut des Nil
1997
The Living Wisdom of Ancient Egypt
1998
Brexit Oblige
2017
Le tueur du Vendredi 13
2015
IMHOTEP - L'INVENTEUR DE L'ETERNITE.
2010
The Divine Worshipper
2007
The Black Pharaoh
1985
Mozart, II. El Hijo de la Luz
2007
The Great Secret
1998
Le Crime de Confucius
2013
Crime Academy
2012
Ramses
The Lady of Abu Simbel - Volume IV
1996
The Way of Fire
2004
Mourir pour Léonard
2013
Champollion the Egyptian
1987
Beneath The Pyramid
1993
Le démon de Kensington
2017
Le secret des Mac Gordon
1985
les enquetes de Setna t2
le livre interdit
2015
La Valle dei Re
1992
Qui a tué l'astrologue?
1993
Crime sur le lac Léman
2018
RAMSES III. L'ultimo gigante
2024
J'ai construit la grande pyramide
2015
For the Love of Philae
1999
Paneb the Ardent
2000
The Place of Truth
2000
Comédien, assassin ?
2018
Le Frère du Feu
2006
The Tree of Life
2003
L'aimé d'Isis
1990
13 à table ! 2017
2017
Meurtre Sur Invitation
1988
The Judge of Egypt Trilogy
2001
Les Enquêtes de l'inspecteur Higgins - Tome 20 Justice est faite
2016
Shadow of the Sphinx
1994
La città sacra. Il figlio di Ramses. Un giallo nell'Antico Egitto
2015
L'assassin du Pôle Nord
2013
Néfertiti
l'ombre du soleil
2013
Les Egyptiennes
1996
Crime dans la vallée des Rois - Les enquêtes de l'Inspecteur Higgins #16
2015
Ramses
The Battle of Kadesh - Volume III
1996
The Empire of Darkness
2001
La tombe maudite
2014
The Tutankhamun Affair
1992
Ramses
The Eternal Temple - Volume II
1995
The Wise Woman
2000
Le Crime de la Momie
2011
La Disparue de Cambridge
2014
Il ladro di anime. Il figlio di Ramses. Un giallo nell'Antico Egitto
2015
Secrets of the Desert
1993
La Guerre des Clans
2010
Fascinating Hieroglyphics
Discovering, Decoding & Understanding the Ancient Art
1994
Le Profil de l'assassin
2012
Magic and Mystery in Ancient Egypt
1983
Nefer the Silent
2000
Un assassin au Touquet
2015
The Last Dreams of Cleopatra
2012
Le Moine et le vénérable
1985
Les trois crimes de Noël
1996
O Filho da Luz
2006
The Judgement of the Mummy
1984
L'oeil du faucon
2012
Les enquêtes de l'inspecteur Higgins - Tome 39 Le monstre du Loch Ness
2021
