Crocodile on the Sandbank

This is an okay book written by Elizabeth Peters. Amelia Peabody is a 32-year-old independent and single Victorian woman. After her father passes away she inherits a large sum and decides to explore some of the ancient sites that her father studied, but had never visited. While in Rome she rescues a young woman from starvation and the two of them travel to Egypt. At a museum they meet two brothers, Emerson and Walter, who are experts in excavations and ancient languages and the two women fall in love with them. This is the first novel in the series. The title comes from an Ancient Egyptian love poem.