Product Description

This work is a fascinating tour of the temples built to honour the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt, including Philae, Karnak and Abydos. It is beautifully illustrated with over 500 colour photographs, maps, diagrams and facsimiles. It contains stories of the marvellous travellers, scholars and explorers who brought ancient Egypt alive for the modern world. It includes close-up photography of carvings and hieroglyphs that illustrates Egypt's astonishingly rich antiquity. Ancient Egypt has fascinated travellers for centuries. This important volume offers an intriguing insight into the religious and burial practices of the Egyptians, examining the locations, temples, tombs, artefacts, and hieroglyphs discovered and investigated over the past 300 years to reveal the way the ancients lived their lives, worshipped their deities and honoured their rulers. Illustrated with beautiful photographs and detailed plans of the major sites, this informative book will inspire the reader with its fresh and authoritative view of this fascinating ancient civilization.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #144364 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 24
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

About the Author
Lorna Oakes lectures regularly at the British Museum and Birkbeck College, London University, and has led many lecture tours to Egypt and Syria. Her work with the Education Service at the British Museum has included producing trails and a teacher's guide on the Assyrian Galleries, taking part in the programme of gallery talks and lectures, and teaching school groups and theological college students. She has written a British Museum children's activity book, The Assyrians, and Teaching the Assyrians, a Historical Association booklet for teachers, at Key Stage 2 in the National Curriculum. She is also the author of The Pyramids and Tombs of Ancient Egypt, and Find Out About Mesopotamia (both Southwater).

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Introduction
This book is richly illustrated with full color photography and copious drawing that supplement the text. Not knowing too much about the history of the pyramids I found the text to be pitched at just the right level, neither to erudite or superficial. It would serve as a good introduction to the subject. Pictures can speak more loudly than words and the reliance on illustrations to supplement the text is a real winner. A chronology of ancient Egypt is provided, where it should be, right at the beginning of the book. The book cover has two folds that can also serve as book markers. A good index, vital for this kind of survey, is also provided. The quality of the books paper renders the color photography bright and vivid. Recommended.

very good book
very good price for a very good book easy to read and plenty of nice photos