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The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller by James Patterson Publisher Comments A secret buried for centuries Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace's veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among the Boy King's most... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Secrets of Tomb 10a by Rita Freed Publisher Comments In 1915, a team of American archaeologists in Bersha, Egypt, blasted through solid rock to reach a tomb later to be designated as 10A. Inside this tomb they found a mummy, an exquisitely-painted coffin and arguably the largest assemblage of burial... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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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: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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Books of the Dead (Art & Imagination Series) by Stanislav Grof Synopsis The art of dying and the posthumous journey of the soul have been the subject of extensive literature in many cultures. This book considers some of these most important works: the ancient Egyptian funerary texts; the Tibetan Bardo Thodol; and the Maya... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments The sacred wisdom of the priests of ancient Egypt and the experiences of the soul after death: one of the most important books in history. Includes full hieroglyphic text along with a transliteration of sounds, word-for-word translation; a separate... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Life in Ancient Egypt by Adolf Erman Publisher Comments The most thoroughly detailed account -- including material not found in more recent books -- of domestic life, religion, magic, medicine, commerce, and more in ancient Egypt. Illustrations include tomb paintings, carvings, more.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ancient Egypt: The Great Discoveries by Nicholas Reeves Publisher Comments The history of Egyptian archaeology, beginning with Napolean's Great Expedition in 1799 through to the excavation of the golden mummies in 1999, is chronicled in this book that includes excerpts from the notebooks and diaries of excavators. 350 photos... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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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) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Hatchepsut: The Female Pharoah by Joyce Tyldesley Publisher Comments The forgotten pharaoh -- brilliant, defiant, statesmanlike, and a woman<P>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.).... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Treasures of Ancient Egypt by Alessand Bongioanni Publisher Comments This volume documents the entire collection of archeological and artistic treasures at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Presenting each artifact in spellbinding full-color photos, the volume also details its history and its exact placement within the museum... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $9.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley Publisher Comments During the dynastic period (3000 BC - 332 BC), as the Greek historian Herodotus was intrigued to observe, Egyptian women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, unrivalled, indeed, by women in Europe... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics) by E. A. Wallis Budge Synopsis The most famous of all ancient Egyptian textsawith an introduction by one of the most celebrated Egyptologists of our time AMONG THE MOST WIDELY read and studied of all ancient writings, The Egyptian Book of the Dead consists of funerary texts that... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Egyptian Painting & Relief by Gay Robins Publisher Comments The artists of Ancient Egypt reached a level of sophistication and technical mastery unsurpassed by other early peoples. They perfected a style which was less naturalistic than that later employed by the Greeks and Romans but which is particularly... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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Warfare in Ancient Egypt by Bridget Mcdermott Synopsis In a book that brings new insights into both military history and the history of ancient Egyptian civilizations, Bridget McDermott surveys three thousand years of continuous development of arms and armour, beginning with the early predynastic culture and... (read more) Your price: $22.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Dwellers on the Nile by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Beginning with a history of ancient Egypt, the author then discusses daily life of the people, examines the Egyptian family and school, furniture, jewelry, food and drink, work and play; the Egyptian religion, medicine, much mmore.<BR>... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $1.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Egyptian Temple Architecture: 100 Years of Hungarian Excavations in Egypt, 1907-2007 by Gyozo Voros Publisher Comments This jubilee book celebrates a century of Hungarian excavations in Egypt, which began on 1 January 1907 with the first of nine archaeological missions over four academic generations. Through the beautifully illustrated pages of this centenary volume, the... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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Tutankhamun: The Story of Egyptology's Greatest Discovery by Jaromir Malek Synopsis When Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon discovered the burial ground of King Tutankhamun on November 26, 1922, they found it in perfect condition, with all the richness of its contents still intact. Never before had an excavation uncovered such a perfectly... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Lost Tomb by Kent R Weeks Publisher Comments Kent Weeks made international headlines when, seventy feet below the surface of Egypt's Valley of the Kings he found the largest and most complicated mausoleum yet discovered, the tomb of Ramesses II's sons. Now for the first time, Weeks shares up-to-the-... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.40 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret of the Great Pyramid: How One Man's Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt's Greatest Mystery by Bob Brier Publisher Comments A decade ago, French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin became obsessed by the centuriesold question: How was the Great Pyramid built? How, in a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age, could such a massive, complex, and enduring structure... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost Tombs of Saqqara by Alain Zivie Publisher Comments Saqqara, as the principal necropolis of Memphis, was a crucially important site in all periods of Egyptian history, from the Old Kingdom through the Late Period, and it has been a fruitful area of excavation and investigation for Egyptologists since the... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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