Fülszöveg
A bestseiling popular history and a unique work of reference
• Contents include:
Biographical accounts of all the 170 or more known pharaohs
•
Lives and personalities of famous kings - Djoser, Akhenaten,Tutankhamun,
Ramesses the Great - and famous queens - Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, Cleopatra
•
Timelines throughout with at-a-glance visual guides to the length of each reign, and
the overlapping of certain reigns •
Datafiles for every pharaoh listing key information such as royal titles, place of burial
and family relationships •
Cartouches (royal names written in hieroglyphs) for each king or queen
•
Tables listing genealogies, royal mummies and main events, plus special features on
everything from the eight wives of Ramesses the Great to the pharaoh of the Exodus
•
350 illustrations, 130 in colour, including portraits of all the major rulers and diagrams and plans of royal tombs and monuments
Peter A. Clayton is an Egyptologist, archaeologist and numismatist who has...
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Fülszöveg
A bestseiling popular history and a unique work of reference
• Contents include:
Biographical accounts of all the 170 or more known pharaohs
•
Lives and personalities of famous kings - Djoser, Akhenaten,Tutankhamun,
Ramesses the Great - and famous queens - Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, Cleopatra
•
Timelines throughout with at-a-glance visual guides to the length of each reign, and
the overlapping of certain reigns •
Datafiles for every pharaoh listing key information such as royal titles, place of burial
and family relationships •
Cartouches (royal names written in hieroglyphs) for each king or queen
•
Tables listing genealogies, royal mummies and main events, plus special features on
everything from the eight wives of Ramesses the Great to the pharaoh of the Exodus
•
350 illustrations, 130 in colour, including portraits of all the major rulers and diagrams and plans of royal tombs and monuments
Peter A. Clayton is an Egyptologist, archaeologist and numismatist who has excavated at sites in England and Egypt. He is the author of The Rediscovery of Ancient Egypt (Thames & Hudson) and over a dozen books on Egypt and the ancient world as well as numerous articles. For over thirty years he has been a Guest Lecturer on cruises in Egypt and the Mediterranean, and is the Consultant Editor of MinervaiTlie International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology.
On the cover: front (top) gold and feience bracelet from the tomb of King Djer; (centre) bead belt from the tomb of Seneb-tisi, Lisht, photo Peter A. Clayton; (bottom, left to right) wooden coffin of Ramesses II, wonders: the Memphis International Cultural Series, photo Jon Abbot; gold funerary mask ofTutankhamun, photo Kodansha Ltd.Tokyo; yellow steatite statue of Akhenaten. photo Peter A. Clayton. back: Rebus pectoral ofTutankhamun, Cairo Museum.
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