A four-thousand-year-old Scarab Amulet leads our intrepid adventurers on an undertaking to impersonate ancient Egyptians. Their quest is to travel back to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and solve a crime in process. A magical scarab amulet in the present day is being called back to its origins by corrupt priest magicians of the Pharaoh.

The team of three magic users and one muggle are joined by an Egyptologist and a friendly witch. Travel with this motley crew as they encounter magic, crime and life in ancient Egypt.

Challenges emerge as they create identities to blend into the culture of Middle Kingdom Egypt. No clothing has survived for them to clone. Money per se did not exist. Their plan is to travel to ancient Egypt with nothing more than an educated guess and their wits. But then, there are magic users and a witch.

Posing as travelers from Napata, a city in lower Egypt, they travel to Ankh-Tawy, modern day Memphis. They are saved from discovery by a scribe who suspects their duplicity and befriends them.