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Egyptian history • Thé inuERkfici^^f the NireSsThe construction of the Pyramids e sec^fe of the hieroglyphics -"Jouriie^itiiQU^rfjUhe UnderwWld • A pleasure for the nose \ dicing Magic • Mummies for ai^etErmt^'The ^tîi^s of wom^i^ The power of the writers The world's first ever stnîi€'~The cobra proî^s land aftd, leader \

The world's first ever strike took place in 115Z B.C. We do not know how many workers laid down their tools, but we do know why they did so: They hadn't been paid their rations of grain and oil, and so the tomb workers in the Valley of the Kings went on strike.
In modern times, the ancient history of Egypt has only been about its rulers and its monumental architecture. You will certainly find the Pyramid of Cheops and the Temples of Ramesses and Hatshepsut in this book. But what you will also find is an account of a long-neglected side of Egyptian history: the people's everyday lives.
How did they picture the world? What sort of relationship did men... Tovább

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Egyptian history • Thé inuERkfici^^f the NireSsThe construction of the Pyramids e sec^fe of the hieroglyphics -"Jouriie^itiiQU^rfjUhe UnderwWld • A pleasure for the nose \ dicing Magic • Mummies for ai^etErmt^'The ^tîi^s of wom^i^ The power of the writers The world's first ever stnîi€'~The cobra proî^s land aftd, leader \

The world's first ever strike took place in 115Z B.C. We do not know how many workers laid down their tools, but we do know why they did so: They hadn't been paid their rations of grain and oil, and so the tomb workers in the Valley of the Kings went on strike.
In modern times, the ancient history of Egypt has only been about its rulers and its monumental architecture. You will certainly find the Pyramid of Cheops and the Temples of Ramesses and Hatshepsut in this book. But what you will also find is an account of a long-neglected side of Egyptian history: the people's everyday lives.
How did they picture the world? What sort of relationship did men and women have to each other? How did they spend their leisure time? And why did they develop such a perfect technique of preserving the body after death in the form of a mummy - "as light as a blown egg and as hard as a statue"?
The authors investigate stimulating questions and dare to take a fresh look at an ancient past that seems much more real to us from this new perspective.
Rose-Marie Hagen was born in Switzerland and studied history as well as the Romance languages and literature in Lausanne. After longer study periods in Paris and Florence, she began lecturing at different institutions including the American University in Washington D.C. Rainer Hagen was born in 1928 in Hamburg and graduated in literature and theatre studies in Munich. He went on to work for radio and TV where his latest job has been as chief editor of North Germany's public broadcasting service (Norddeutscher Rundfunk). The two authors have previously worked together for Benedikt Taschen on a monograph of Pieter Bruegel the Elder as well as on three volumes in the series What Great Paintings Say.
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