Egypt
Christine Hobson
Thames & Hudson
New York
ISBN: 0-500-27560-2
1987
The author starts out strong in its introduction with an interesting overview of Pharaonic history leading into the archaeologists who discovered the various epoch's of Egypt's long reign of the Pharaoh's. The lists of Archaeologist and their contribution made the science of today from men like Walter Emery to Amelia Edwards as well as the stars of the field like Belzoni and Champollion.
Chapter three is a bright description of the history of royal tombs focusing mainly on the successive known Kings who created the pyramids of the Old Kingdom. As addicting as the text is the photos are of standard fair though there are some gems like the relief from the tomb of Ankmahor.
The author has a pleasant voice with the simplicity of words that make a tough subjects like the Pantheon of gods easy to understand though I must say that there were a number of inaccuracies, Mentuhotep II was not the first king of the 12th Dynasty.
These inaccuracies did not outweigh my interest in the book and the pictures became more interesting as the book went along. The last chapter was as well written complete with a good introduction as to how to read hieroglyphs and the rescue of the Nubian monuments from the raising of the Aswan dam.
But still there were more mistakes in the archaeology and I wondered how many mistakes that had gone over my head. It is hard to criticize a book I liked but the facts go astray while the obvious talent of the author looses only a little of the books glimmer to me.
I am glad I read this book, I think!
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Egypt
The World of the Pharaoh's, A Complete Guide to Ancient Egypt
Thames & Hudson
New York
ISBN: 0-500-27560-2
1987
The author starts out strong in its introduction with an interesting overview of Pharaonic history leading into the archaeologists who discovered the various epoch's of Egypt's long reign of the Pharaoh's. The lists of Archaeologist and their contribution made the science of today from men like Walter Emery to Amelia Edwards as well as the stars of the field like Belzoni and Champollion.
Chapter three is a bright description of the history of royal tombs focusing mainly on the successive known Kings who created the pyramids of the Old Kingdom. As addicting as the text is the photos are of standard fair though there are some gems like the relief from the tomb of Ankmahor.
The author has a pleasant voice with the simplicity of words that make a tough subjects like the Pantheon of gods easy to understand though I must say that there were a number of inaccuracies, Mentuhotep II was not the first king of the 12th Dynasty.
These inaccuracies did not outweigh my interest in the book and the pictures became more interesting as the book went along. The last chapter was as well written complete with a good introduction as to how to read hieroglyphs and the rescue of the Nubian monuments from the raising of the Aswan dam.
But still there were more mistakes in the archaeology and I wondered how many mistakes that had gone over my head. It is hard to criticize a book I liked but the facts go astray while the obvious talent of the author looses only a little of the books glimmer to me.
I am glad I read this book, I think!
- Mummies Myth And Magic In Ancient Egypt
Christine El Mahdy Thames & Hudson New York 1989 Library of Congress Catalogue No. 89-50542 This 1989 book by author Christine El Mahdy was appointed with a number of nice images gracing its 192 pages though there was interesting details I also...
- The Mummy By Joyce Tyldesley
Joyce Tyldesley Carlton Books Limited 1999 ISBN: 1 85868 714 4 On my journey back to Vancouver I was browsing through this book which I had just picked up while visiting Victoria finding, to my chagrin, that a number of the photos bore incorrect captions...
- The Rape Of The Nile
Brian M. Fagan Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1975 ISBN 0-684-15058-1 It has taken me a while to get to this book the last year I have been "showered" with books having to select from too many possibilities. That loss of time was truly a loss when...
- 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 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...