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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Egypt	Stephen Krensky	This book examines life in ancient Egypt including the importance of the Nile River and the daily life of both nobles and commoners. Illustrations. Examines life in ancient Egypt, including the impor…	OL115753W
Religion and ritual in ancient Egypt	Emily Teeter	"This book is a vivid reconstruction of the practical aspects of ancient Egyptian religion. Through an examination of artifacts and inscriptions, the text explores a variety of issues. For example, w…	OL16113717W
The archaeology of ancient Egypt	Douglas J. Brewer	"Egyptologists, art historians, philologists and anthropological archaeologists have long worked side by side in Egypt, but they often fail to understand one another's approaches. This book aims to i…	OL16599621W
Secrets of the mummies	Shelley Tanaka	Describes the ancient Egyptian practice of preserving the dead through the process of mummification and explains what scientists have learned from unwrapping and examining mummies.	OL17838845W
The Egyptians	Stuart James Fleming	Describes the art, architecture, social structure, and history of the ancient Egyptian civilization.	OL18016761W
The Best-ever Book of Pyramids (Best-ever Book Of...)	Anne Millard,Ariane Bataille	Describes the pyramids of Egypt and the Americas and their significance in the social, political, and religious life of long-vanished civilizations.	OL1804480W
Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt	Lionel Casson,New Word City Editors	"In this latest work, Lionel Casson offers a comprehensive introduction to the people of ancient Egypt. He describes the structure of Egyptian society - the levels from peasant to pharaoh, the nature…	OL1884452W
Judgement of the Pharaoh	Joyce A. Tyldesley	This book unmasks Ancient Egyptian crimes and criminals, meticulously recreating a series of crimes, from grave robbing, false embalming, necrophilia, and bestiality to a re-creation of the murder of…	OL1945094W
Egyptomania	Emma Giuliani	Learn what Ancient Egyptians wore, what's inside a pyramid, how a mummy is made and much much more by lifting the flaps and discovering the secrets hiding underneath!	OL19739408W
The Nile	Toby A. H. Wilkinson	It was Herodotus who first called Egypt "the gift of the river." Now renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us along the Nile to reveal how it continues to hold the key to understanding the earli…	OL19983210W
Egypt	Valerie Bodden	In this title discover an historical overview of the Egyptian civilization from the perspectives of the social classes, from the king to the laborers, including the North African kingdoms growth and…	OL19985886W
The eloquent peasant	Loren R. Fisher	Four thousand years ago, Egyptian society struggled with the downfall of the Old Kingdom, which brought an end to material success and introduced anarchy and chaos. Out of this period of crisis came …	OL20974254W
Splendors of ancient Egypt	William H. Peck	This book was written to accompany an Egyptian exhibition from the collection of the Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany. It is a general introduction to Egyptian history, culture, and art. While…	OL2674895W
We can't go home again	Clarence Earl Walker	"As expounded by Molefi Kete Asante, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, and others, Afrocentrism encourages black Americans to discard their recent history, with its inescapable white presence, and to embrace inst…	OL2938555W
The Egyptians	Gillian Chapman	Describes various aspects of life in ancient Egypt and provides instructions for creating hieroglyphic messages, mummy cases, reed boats, board games, pharoah's jewels, and more.	OL477317W
The sarcophagus	Claudine Roland	45p. : 21cm	OL4844787W
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Pyramid Builder	Jacqueline Morley	Describes the construction of an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, the life and various jobs of the workers, and the burial of the pharaoh.	OL486271W
A History of Egypt	Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot	Egypt occupies a central position in the Arab world. Its borders between sand and sea have existed for millennia and yet, until 1952, the country was ruled by foreigners. Afaf al-Sayyid Marsot explor…	OL8326436W
Ancient Egypt	Giorgio Agnese,Maurizio Re	One of the most fascinating regions of Africa, the land that saw the rise and fall of the longest and most enigmatic of the Mediterranean civilizations, Egypt is full of landscapes of breathtaking be…	OL8493717W
Priests, Tongues, and Rites	Jacco Dieleman	This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of magical and alchemical manuscripts around 1828 i…	OL9091049W