|
Archaeology
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Tutankhamen: The Search for an Egyptian King by Joyce Tyldesley Publisher Comments The discovery of King Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922 was perhaps the world’s most important archaeological find. The only near-intact royal tomb to be preserved in the Valley of the Kings, it has supplied an astonishing wealth of artifacts,... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Hardcover 
add to wish list |
|
Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz Publisher Comments World-renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz explores the reality behind the bestselling fiction she writes (as Elizabeth Peters) and casts a dazzling light on a remarkable civilization. Afascinating chronicle of an extraordinary people—from the... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Egyptians by Cyril Aldred Publisher Comments Ancient Egypt may have been, to paraphrase Herodotus, "the gift of the Nile", but Egypt's civilization was no less the product of her god incarnate, the pharaoh. These twin themes -- the overwhelming importance of the annual inundation of the Nile and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Life Under the Pharaohs by Leonard Cottrell Publisher Comments This book, written by one the masters of popular history, is for the interested amateur and reconstructs every day life in the Egypt of 1500 BCE. The central character, a real person whose tomb still exists, is Vizier Rekhmire. You meet with him and go... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.75 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs: How to Read the Secret Language of the Pharaohs by Bridget Mcdermott Publisher Comments For beginners and Egyptologists alike, reading hieroglyphs provides fascinating insights into the land and lore of the pyramids. Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs is the only fully illustrated, easy-to-use guide to the meaning and mystery behind this ancient... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Her-Bak: Egyptian Initiation by Isha Schwaller De Lubicz Publisher Comments In these fictional accounts, Ancient Egypt is made accessible, revealed through the eyes of young Her-Bak, candidate for initiation into the Inner Temple.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Wondrous Curiosities Wondrous Curiosities Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum Ancient Egypt at the British Museum Ancient Egypt by Stephanie Moser Publisher Comments When the British Museum opened its doors more than two centuries ago, scores of visitors waited eagerly outside for a first glimpse of ancient relics from Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Even today, in this age of satellite television and high-speed Internet... (read more) Your price: $26.75 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Ancient Egypt (97 Edition) by David P. Silverman Publisher Comments 'The ancient Egyptians lived in a remarkable culture that created some of the world\'s most beautiful art and architecture. It was a land where Pharaoh was the monarch of the entire world, the living emodiment on Earth of the god Horus, son of Osiris... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Life of the Ancient Egyptians by Eugen Strouhal Publisher Comments "Strouhal's book is essentially a descriptive ethnography of ancient Egypt. Its 20 concise chapters lucidly summarize the evidence -- textual, artistic, and archaeological -- for such topics as childhood, education, courtship and marriage, farming and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Temples of Ancient Egypt by Byron E Shafer Publisher Comments Five distinguished scholars summarize the state of current knowledge about ancient Egyptian temples and the rituals associated with their use. This first volume in English to survey the major types of Egyptian temples from the Old Kingdom to the Roman... (read more) List Price $75.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Egyptian Language by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Comprehensive beginner’s manual includes extensive glossary of characters, phonetic values, grammar, selected readings. Standard guide.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Ancient Egypt by Jon E Lewis Publisher Comments In this new Mammoth volume's variety of firsthand accounts--from papyri, chiseled tablets, court records, temple texts, graffiti, classical Greek and Roman histories--the ancient Egyptian way of life is unfolded in colorful detail with dramatic immediacy.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt by Zahi A. Hawass Publisher Comments Beautiful, mysterious, and tragic, Cleopatra remains one of the most mesmerizing women of all timeand here is her story, based on the latest archaeological research. Secrets unfold in the official companion book to the new exhibition cosponsored by... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Sungod's Journey Through the Netherworld: Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat by Andreas Schweizer Book News Annotation Jungian psychoanalyst Schweizer offers this glimpse into the ancient Egyptian psyche via the daily journey of Re, the sun god, into the depths of the underworld and back. The texts and images of the Amduat are closely analyzed by the author and are... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt by Werner Forman Publisher Comments With the help of Werner Forman's beautiful full-color photographs, Egyptologist Stephen Quirke explains the Pyramid Texts, created for kings and queens ca. 2400 to 2100 B.C.; the Coffin Texts, used by the affluent as well as royalty during the Middle... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz Publisher Comments Internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz transports us back thousands of years and immerses us in the sights and sounds of day-to-day life in a vanished desert culture. Their civilization has inspired myriad films, books, pieces of art, myths,... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Temples, Tombs, & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz Publisher Comments An eye-opening, edifying, and endlessly entertaining tour through an astonishing bygone world—the acclaimed classic history of ancient Egypt, now newly revised and updated Writing as Elizabeth Peters, world-renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz is... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Hatchepsut: The Female Pharoah by Joyce Tyldesley Publisher Comments Egypt?s Queen?or, as she would prefer to be remembered, King?Hatchepsut ruled over an age of peace, prosperity, and remarkable architectural achievement (c. 1490 b.c.). Had she been born a man, her reign would almost certainly have been remembered for... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Life in Ancient Egypt by Adolf Erman Publisher Comments The fullest, most thoroughly detailed account — including much material not found in more recent books — of domestic life, religion, magic, medicine, commerce, and much more in ancient Egypt. Many illustrations reproduce tomb... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Old Kingdom Pottery from Giza by Zahi Hawass Synopsis This publication discusses the pottery that was discovered by Zahi Hawass's excavations at Giza, including the Cemetery of the Pyramid Builders, the Western Cemetery, and the settlement beneath the modern suburb of Nazlet el-Samman. It is a comprehensive... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
