Why are gypsies believed to be able to predict the future? Why is there a pyramid and a glowing eye on the dollar bill? Why does Michelangelo's statue of Moses have horns on its head? Because the modern era was preceded by Egypt; not Egypt, but Egypt. Because before everything was different from what it is now, and other laws ruled, and soon everything will change again, and the forgotten gods will reign again in souls and in heaven. Because New York academic intrigues and zigzags of cocaine dealerships lead the humble historian Piers Moffett into the American wilderness, while Giordano Bruno goes on a journey of a lifetime and at the cost of his life, and John Dee and Edward Kelly see angels in a magic crystal. All this is discussed in the novel “Egypt” by the incomparable John Crowley; the first novel of the tetralogy, which is called “Egypt.”