- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1904292437
- ISBN-13: 978-1904292432
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 862 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,865,398 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A fabulous collaboration of images and text encompassing all areas of Egypt's rich culture With a wonderful marriage of text and stunning design, Ancient Egypt takes us on a captivating journey exploring all the key themes of this extraordinary culture including the history, the religion, the art and the science as well as the myths and legends. Providing a perfect backdrop are wonderful color photographs, which help to encapsulate the vivid and powerful symbols of this fascinating civilization - from temple stone carvings to the famous Book of the Dead. This book covers themes that have long preoccupied the popular imagination and the contributors provide a fantastic insight into this compelling subject area
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Egypt lies at the northern end of the longest river in the world: the Nile, which rises in the East African highlands and flows into the Mediterranean more than four thousand miles (6,500km) away. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Egypt lies at the northern end of the longest river in the world: the Nile, which rises in the East African highlands and flows into the Mediterranean more than four thousand miles (6,500km) away. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Walk Like An Egyptian,
By Author Bill Peschel "Writers Gone Wild" (Hershey, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
"Ancient Egypt" is the perfect antidote to those Time-Life books about ancient civilizations, where you look at the pictures and read the text and wonder, "is that all there is?"Well, of course there is. The problem is finding it. This collection of essays uses words, pictures, artwork and imaginative reconstructions to describe the ancient world ruled by gods and which built monuments that have lasted millennia. The book's 15 chapters opens all aspects of the Nile kingdom's world. In addition to the expected sections on the pyramids, its hieroglyphs and Pharaohs, "Ancient Egypt" also delves into religious beliefs, political campaigns, the role of women, the development of towns and trade and the daily rituals of its people. Wrapped around the text are superlative photographs, shorter articles about equally fascinating subjects (a profile of Ramesses the Great in the section on Pharaohs, for example, or on the "letters" to the dead, written on simple pottery bowls and deposited in the tomb or coffin), plenty of colorful reproductions of Egyptian art so vivid that the course of individual brush-strokes could be seen, and commissioned drawings giving theories of how pyramids were built, and what the Temple of Karnak must have looked like at its height. But what really shines are the little touches. A closeup of an Egyptian artist, his scruffy hair and scraggy beard making him look like a New York bohemian, using an odd-shaped tool on a wooden beam; the vivid face of a long-dead woman painted on a board and included with her mummy wrappings, gazing at the reader with the poise of nobility; a piece of prose passed among the scribes that mocks all other trades ("the potter is under the soil, although he stands among the living / He grubs in the mud more than a pig in order to bake his pots"); a drawing of a fortress built to impress the Nubians in southern Egypt, looking for all the world, with its towers and crenellations like something out of medieval Europe. So much about ancient Egypt seems so familiar, but, really, we were just watching "The Ten Commandments," or remembering the villain King Tut from the old Batman TV show."Ancient Egypt" shows us what we were missing.
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Excellent work of research. Unforgetable images.,
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This review is from: Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
Since my childhood I was fascinated about Egypt and egypcian people. Pharaos, pyramides, Cleopatra, Ramses, etc, all this things interest me a lot. David Silverman edited one of the best books available on the subject. I have some other books about Egypt but no one compares to this.Five stars deserved !!!
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If I could only have one book on Ancient Egypt...,
By Platanthera102 "Platantheralady" (Forest Park, IL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
David Silverman, author of several fine books as well as Curator of the Egyptian Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, has made a major contribution to the literature in this comprehensive, engagingly written and well-illustrated volume. I have to admit a bias, since I studied hieroglyphics in one of his classes at the University of Chicago a while ago. His enthusiasm and knowledge shine forth in this mature work, which draws on the talents of the best people in the field today. I would give this book a ten-star rating!
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