The Experience of Ancient Egypt provides a comprehensive portrait of what we know about ancient Egypt today, examining in detail issues of religion, of beliefs and practices surrounding death, of everyday life and of literature. In an engaging style, the author traces Egyptology from its classical roots, through the painstaking process of deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the most up-to-date bio-medical and archaeological techniques, never forgetting how time has proved that it is impossible to deliver the absolute truth about ancient...
The Experience of Ancient Egypt provides a comprehensive portrait of what we know about ancient Egypt today, examining in detail issues of re...
This text presents the Egyptian builders of the pyramids as simple people, leading ordinary lives while they are engaged on building the great tomb for a Pharoah. The text is aimed at the general reader, offering a picture of a community that lived in Egypt and built one of the pyramids, some 4000 years ago.
This text presents the Egyptian builders of the pyramids as simple people, leading ordinary lives while they are engaged on building the great tomb fo...
