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The pyramids of ancient Egypt
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Zahi A. Hawass |
iv, 52 p. : 23 cm |
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An Account of Egypt
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Herodotus |
The father of story-tellers, Herodotus had a philosophy of history. Most of his life is unkonwn, except that he spent much of it traveling to collect to material for his writings. A very delightful r… |
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Cleopatra
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Stacy Schiff |
From back cover: Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons; her supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a mas… |
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Handbook to life in ancient Egypt
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A. Rosalie David,Rosalie David |
Covers such topics as the geography of Ancient Egypt, society and government, religion, funerary beliefs and customs, architecture, trade and transport, the army and navy, economy and industry, and e… |
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A brief history of Cleopatra
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M. J. Trow |
A Brief History of Cleopatra draws on recent archaeological finds and fresh interpretations of ancient texts to separate truth from myth to set this incomparably beautiful queen in context. |
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Hatshepsut and ancient Egypt
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Miriam Greenblatt |
Describes the tumultuous reign of Hatshepsut, daughter of Thothmes I, and life in ancient Egypt during her reign. |
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The birth of a new physics
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I. Bernard Cohen |
Relates man's search from the sixteenth century to the present for a physics to describe the dynamics of a universe in motion. |
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Amarna diplomacy
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Cohen, Raymond,Raymond Westbrook |
"In 1887, a peasant woman stumbled across a 3,000-year-old trove of cuneiform tablets in the ruins at Amarna, in Upper Egypt. The find, mostly letters from foreign kings to the Egyptian court, was pa… |
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Tutankhamun's Egypt
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Penelope Davies |
An account of the life and times of a child Pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the discovery of his tomb thousands of years later. |
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Ancient Egypt
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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… |
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