The Egyptian Kingdoms

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The Making of the Past
The Making of the Past is a new series designed to provide a complete survey of the early history of the world as revealed by archaeology and related disciplines. Its subject is a new history, the making of a new past, freshly uncovered and reconstructed in recent years by skilled specialists. Beautifully illustrated with photographs, many in full colour, and with maps, diagrams and line drawings including reconstructions, the series will be completely authoritative and up to date, while losing nothing of the excitement of recent discoveries about the ancient past.
About this volume
The Egyptian Kingdoms
A. Rosalie David.
over 230 illustrations
Here is a compact study of the remarkable civilization of ancient Egypt. Books on this popular subject have proliferated in recent years, particularly since the great Tutankhamun Exhibition at the British Museum in 1972, but few of them cover the story of ancient Egypt in such a lively and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

About the series
The Making of the Past
The Making of the Past is a new series designed to provide a complete survey of the early history of the world as revealed by archaeology and related disciplines. Its subject is a new history, the making of a new past, freshly uncovered and reconstructed in recent years by skilled specialists. Beautifully illustrated with photographs, many in full colour, and with maps, diagrams and line drawings including reconstructions, the series will be completely authoritative and up to date, while losing nothing of the excitement of recent discoveries about the ancient past.
About this volume
The Egyptian Kingdoms
A. Rosalie David.
over 230 illustrations
Here is a compact study of the remarkable civilization of ancient Egypt. Books on this popular subject have proliferated in recent years, particularly since the great Tutankhamun Exhibition at the British Museum in 1972, but few of them cover the story of ancient Egypt in such a lively and informative manner. The Egyptian Kingdoms is richly illustrated with photographs, the majority in colour, as well as maps, tables, line drawings and other aids to ihe reader.
The opening chapter gives a lucid summary of the 4000-year-long history of ancient Egypt, from prehistoric times to the Ptolemies. This serves as a setting for the following chapters on the rediscovery of this almost forgotten civilization by the scholars among Napoleon's invasion forces, by later travellers and explorers, and finally by professional scholars and archaeologists. Later chapters explore the civilization of ancient Egypt in more detail. The author explains, for instance, why Egyptian artists always portrayed the human figure in stiff, conventional poses, why the pharaoh, a king-god, was central to Egyptian rehgion,
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