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Nefertiti Lived Here [Paperback]

Mary Chubb (Author)

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Paperback: 181 pages
Publisher: Libri Publications; Facsimile edition edition (January 1954)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1901965015
ISBN-13: 978-1901965018
Product Dimensions: 22.3 x 16.5 x 1.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 222 g

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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,228,104 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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In 1930 five young archaeologists embarked on an expedition to Egypt to investigate the site of Tell el Amarna, city of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. In this book Mary Chubb recalls her initiation into the world of Egyptology and the discoveries that she and her team made. It is an account of life on an excavation and includes a portrayal of the excavation's director, John Pendlebury.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Misleading title, Jan 17 2003

Gerard G. Passera (Chatenoy France) - See all my reviews

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Read carefully the book description. This is not a story of Nefertiti, but one of Mary Chubb. If you look for clues on the Amarna period and the Bible a few page are interresting.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Memoir Extraordinaire, Jun 22 2005

By Elizabeth Brackman - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Nefertiti Lived Here (Paperback)

Mary Chubb's writing is highly readable and engaging. Her memoir opens on a dreary 1929 February morning in Bloomsbury England, when she finds herself in the basement of the local Egyptological Society offices as the secretary searching for some lost file. She finds instead an ancient Egyptian tile, taken from a dig at Tell el Amarna and stored in the Society's offices with the sand from Egypt still on it.

That one little tile sparks her imagination to travel to Egypt with the next expedition and what follows is a fantastic true story of her adventures on the archaeological dig in the Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and his lovely Queen Nefertiti's city.

I have rarely read such a lovely, lighthearted but factual account of someone's travels. A witty, fast-paced book that reads much like a novel, I highly recommend Nefertiti Lived Here to anyone interested in Egypt, memoirs or travel writing in general.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Quite good, to me, May 6 2005

By Marlene R. Powell - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Nefertiti Lived Here (Paperback)

It's been a few years since I've read this book (from library), and was very sorry to find that, at the time, it was long out of print.

I'm glad to see that someone has taken enough interest to republish!

The first reviewer is right; it's not so much about Nefertiti as the ruins at Amarna (Ankhetaten), from the Amarna Period of Egypt. It's a sort of memoir, from Mary Chubb's point of view, of one particular excavation in Tel el-Amarna.

If you're interested in Ankhenaten and Nefertiti, suppositions on how they lived their life, guesses on how Tuthankhamen (king tut) was related to them, and how an expedition of a reletively new site is carried out, this is a very good book to read. But I'll warn you: it has far more to do with the archeology and the ruins than it has to do with Nefertiti herself.

Nefertiti lived in Amarna. Nefertiti lived here. Get it?

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3.0 out of 5 stars Charming, flitty little ditty; sometimes witty., Mar 10 2011

By Mendicant Pigeon "Mendicant Pigeon" - Published on Amazon.com

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This is a short, kind of slapdash memoir of a brief time spent on an archeological dig upstream of Cairo in Egypt during the year 1930.
The author was brought in as a kind of secretary cum general dogsbody.
It is a charmingly told tale, if a bit sketchy in detail more impressionistic actually, but generally a good, light read.
The included illustrations in the form of line drawings are especially appreciated and one wishes there had been more; a bit like the story itself, actually.

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