Omm Sety - a brilliant, eccentric Englishwoman with uncanny knowledge of New Kingdom Egypt, its royal secrets and religious practices - worked under some of the 20th century's greatest Egyptologists and lived a life of magic and memory. Omm Sety's EGPYT contains never-before-seen episodes from her life, and important, previously unknown details of Egyptian history.

Hanny el Zeini is the retired director of Egypt's national sugar industry, a lifelong amateur Egyptologist and closest confidant of Omm Sety, with whom he recorded hundreds of hours of conversations about her strange life in two worlds, and the unsolved mysteries of Egyptian history.

Catherine Dees is a California writer and editor with an abiding love for ancient Egypt and its brilliant, still-mysterious legacy. She is the author of several historical and romance novels and was co-producer of Continuum: the Immortality Principle, a major public exhibit that explored the limits of consciousness.