Egypt
Regina Schulz and Matthias Seidel
H. F. Ullmann
2007
ISBN 978-3-8331-1037-5
This 507 page book is compiled from various authors and edited by Regine Schulz and Matthias Seidel the book is filled with lots of great photos many of which I have never seen before. The first 300 pages of the book are a chronological order of Egyptian history and filled with great details.
Unfortunately some of the facts are off and twice it was repeated that Ahmes-Nofretari was the wife of Amenhotep I when in fact she was his mother. The book is certainly extensive and covers numerous aspects of ancient Egyptian life including its temples, its tombs, burial practices and the archaeology involved in the discovery of its monuments.
The book is in depth but to a certain degree too in depth and though I found it interesting to hear the quarrying was not conducted by wetting wood wedges so that they would expand until the Romans I found too many subjects were not explored with any depth.
With my personal interests being mummies there were some great images but too few and the subject was mostly the same old thought, can anyone talk about Egyptian mummification without mentioning what Herodotus said late in Egyptian history. Everyone else tells the same story.
The book was long and intimidating with perhaps the best part being the images and though I did find it a little tedious I would recommend it if for nothing else than definitely for the images.
The book would have had a better impact on me with more of a concentration on certain subjects and less on an over all view.
- Mummies A Voyage Through Eternity
Francoise Dunand and Roger Lichtenberg Discoveries Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1994 ISBN 0-8109-2886-8 This small colourful book opens with full page head shots of nine mummies from the necropolis at Duch excavated by the Institut Francais d'Archeologie...
- 100 Hieroglyphs: Think Like An Egyptian
Barry Kemp Granta Books London 2005 ISBN: 1 86207 658 8 This book is based on 100 hieroglyphs that will help one think like an ancient Egyptian The concept of the book interests me very much and is filled with plenty of literary citations from Pharaonic...
- Valley Of The Kings: The Tombs And The Funerary Temples Of Thebes West
Kent Weeks VMB Publishers Italy 2008 ISBN: 978-88-540-0976-9 This book edited by Kent R. Weeks and with photographs by Araldo De Luca has 14 contributors who represent a who's who of Egyptology so much is expected from it. Right off the start the...
- The Pyramids By Ahmed Fakhry
Ahmed Fakhry The University of Chicago Press 1961 U.S.A. Library of Congress No. 61-8654 This 249 page read from the University of Chicago press contains many images and schematics to help in the explanation of the monuments including at the back of...
- The Splendour That Was Egypt
Margaret A. Murray Sidgwick; Jackson London 1977 Reprint ISBN: 0 283 97892 9 This sixty year old book is hopefully just what I needed to forget the last book I read, though the chronology is off with dates of the Middle Kingdom as an example being more...
Egypt
Egypt: The World of the Pharaohs
Regina Schulz and Matthias Seidel
H. F. Ullmann
2007
ISBN 978-3-8331-1037-5
This 507 page book is compiled from various authors and edited by Regine Schulz and Matthias Seidel the book is filled with lots of great photos many of which I have never seen before. The first 300 pages of the book are a chronological order of Egyptian history and filled with great details.
Unfortunately some of the facts are off and twice it was repeated that Ahmes-Nofretari was the wife of Amenhotep I when in fact she was his mother. The book is certainly extensive and covers numerous aspects of ancient Egyptian life including its temples, its tombs, burial practices and the archaeology involved in the discovery of its monuments.
The book is in depth but to a certain degree too in depth and though I found it interesting to hear the quarrying was not conducted by wetting wood wedges so that they would expand until the Romans I found too many subjects were not explored with any depth.
With my personal interests being mummies there were some great images but too few and the subject was mostly the same old thought, can anyone talk about Egyptian mummification without mentioning what Herodotus said late in Egyptian history. Everyone else tells the same story.
The book was long and intimidating with perhaps the best part being the images and though I did find it a little tedious I would recommend it if for nothing else than definitely for the images.
The book would have had a better impact on me with more of a concentration on certain subjects and less on an over all view.
- Mummies A Voyage Through Eternity
Francoise Dunand and Roger Lichtenberg Discoveries Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1994 ISBN 0-8109-2886-8 This small colourful book opens with full page head shots of nine mummies from the necropolis at Duch excavated by the Institut Francais d'Archeologie...
- 100 Hieroglyphs: Think Like An Egyptian
Barry Kemp Granta Books London 2005 ISBN: 1 86207 658 8 This book is based on 100 hieroglyphs that will help one think like an ancient Egyptian The concept of the book interests me very much and is filled with plenty of literary citations from Pharaonic...
- Valley Of The Kings: The Tombs And The Funerary Temples Of Thebes West
Kent Weeks VMB Publishers Italy 2008 ISBN: 978-88-540-0976-9 This book edited by Kent R. Weeks and with photographs by Araldo De Luca has 14 contributors who represent a who's who of Egyptology so much is expected from it. Right off the start the...
- The Pyramids By Ahmed Fakhry
Ahmed Fakhry The University of Chicago Press 1961 U.S.A. Library of Congress No. 61-8654 This 249 page read from the University of Chicago press contains many images and schematics to help in the explanation of the monuments including at the back of...
- The Splendour That Was Egypt
Margaret A. Murray Sidgwick; Jackson London 1977 Reprint ISBN: 0 283 97892 9 This sixty year old book is hopefully just what I needed to forget the last book I read, though the chronology is off with dates of the Middle Kingdom as an example being more...