Lives of the Ancient Egyptians
Toby Wilkinson
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| ‘Highly recommended … remarkable vignettes of the normal people of ancient Egypt’ | | – Minerva |
What was it really like to live in the Nile Valley twenty, thirty or forty centuries ago? Here, in one hundred life-stories,
are both the powerful leaders of Ancient Egypt and its ordinary citizens
Lives of the Ancient Egyptians is packed with personal stories of ambition and intrigue, of triumph, despair and love, that recreate the world of the pharaohs in an innovative and compelling way.
• A sumptuously illustrated insight into a vanished and mysterious world
• Tells the personal stories of famous pharaohs, from Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid, to Akhenaten and Ramesses II
• Includes Egypt’s queens: the powerful Tiye, the beautiful Nefertiti, Tutankhamun’s tragic child-bride Ankhesenamun, and Cleopatra
• Gives a voice to ordinary men and women, so often ignored in histories of ancient Egypt: a doctor, a sailor, a housewife – and a serial criminal
Toby Wilkinson holds a doctorate in Egyptology from the University of Cambridge. His other publications include Early Dynastic Egypt, Genesis of the Pharaohs and The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Ancient Egypt.
Also of interest:
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Ancient Egypt
Exploring the World of the Pharaohs
Discovering Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture
Mummies: A Journey Through Eternity
Amazing Facts about Ancient Egypt
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500051488 | | ISBN-13 978-0500051481 | | | | 25.5 x 20.0 cm | | Hardback | | 336pp | | 200 illustrations, 80 in colour | | First published 2007 | | | | £24.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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