Chapter 3-4 Summary

Amelia and Emerson are in Cairo, and they attend dinner at the Sheppards Hotel where they are staying. At dinner they hear all the local gossip from the other archaeologists. Their evening is interrupted by Kevin O'Connell, a reporter from the London Daily Yell, who insinuates Emerson has a previous relationship with Lady Baskerville, and that there is a curse on the tomb where Sir Baskerville was working.

In Chapter 4, Amelia and Emerson arrive at Luxor, and she is immersed in memories of their past times there. They are met by Karl von Bork, the site epigrapher, or ancient language specialist. Karl has made arrangements for them to go out to the site and tells Emerson of the guards already posted. Emerson is concerned that there is no artist on the site. Armadale was the artist for the excavation, but he...