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Cleopatra
Shakepeare's "lass unparallel", the mistress of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, Cleopatra was born in 69 BC and died before she reached the age of forty, when Alexandria fell to...
Mummy: The Inside Story
The 3,000 year-old mummy of the Egyptian priest Nesperennub has never been removed from its beautifully painted case, but now the latest non-invasive imaging technology has revealed what lies inside....
A Dictionary of Ancient Egypt
From Aha, king of the 1st Dynasty at Memphis (2920 B.C.), to the vast complex of pleasure palaces at Zerukha this A-Z dictionary places more than 1,500 entries on the...
Egypt and the Egyptians
The richness of more than 3000 years of Egyptian civilization comes alive in the pages of this book. From the geology of the land, the first cities, social structure, religion,...
Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids
Recreates the golden age of ancient Egypt. Here, for example, the pyramids and the sphinx are construction sites teeming with workers. Administrators bustle to fulfil their assignments from the Pharaoh's...
The Penguin Guide to Ancient Egypt
This work combines a guide with a cultural history. The first section, which provides a background to ancient Egypt, its institutions and its people, is fully cross-referenced to the sights...
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani: Egyptian Text,
Complete reproduction of Ani's papyrus, finest ever found. Full hieroglyphic text, interlinear transliteration, word-for-word translation, smooth translation. The sacred wisdom of the priests of ancient Egypt and the experiences of...
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
A brilliantly readable, beautifully illustrated general history of ancient Egypt, from the builders of the first pyramids to Cleopatra. 'A sophisticated and complete account' The Times : Books of the...
The Cosmography and Geography of Africa
The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance- an African diplomat's guide to Africa In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a...
Ancient Lives: Story of the Pharaoh's Tombmakers
More than 3000 years ago a village was established at Thebes on the west bank of the Nile. Situated amid a barren landscape are housed the workers who created the...
The Egyptians
The book titled The Egyptians by the author Michael Hayes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Ancient Egypt
$30.00 AUD
Here is the most extensive illustrated single-volume dictionary of ancient Egypt in existence. From Aba to Zoser, from aegis to zodiac, this book will be invaluable to all those seeking...
Sunken cities: Egypt's lost worlds
Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, at the edge of the northwestern Nile Delta, lie the submerged remains of once-lost ancient Egyptian cities that sank over 1,200 years ago, but...
Ancient Egypt on Five Deben a Day
An essential guide for the discerning time-traveller: take a trip to ancient Egypt at the height of its power and prosperity in the reign of Ramesses II. More reliable than...
The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power
With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea - both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea - and the Nile, this book offers a new and...
Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and
'A wonderful debut by a talented and exciting young historian' Peter Frankopan ' Simultaneously capacious and personal...a masterful achievement ' Tom Holland 'Elegant and powerful, Pepera's magnificent book elevates our...
Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and
'A wonderful debut by a talented and exciting young historian' Peter Frankopan ' Simultaneously capacious and personal...a masterful achievement ' Tom Holland 'Elegant and powerful, Pepera's magnificent book elevates our...
House of the Eagle
The first volume of The Ptolemies Quartet triumphantly brings to life the dark and glittering history of ancient Alexandria and the Greek Pharaohs of Egypt, whose extraordinary dynasty spanned twelve...
The Private Lives of the Pharaohs
Ancient Egypt, land of the pharaohs, bore witness to the rise and fall of the world's greatest civilization. A combination of evidence ranging from the pyramids and rock-cut tombs to...
The Mummy, The
The Mummy follows the history of mummification in Egypt from the dynastic age to the present day, including a consideration of the mummy in modern popular culture, films and literature,...
Imagining Egypt: A Living Portrait of the Time of the Pharoahs
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The glory of ancient Egypt comes alive as never before in this colourful, information-packed book featuring new and detailed recreations of ancient pyramids and temples, plus the history, rituals, language,...
The Search for Cleopatra
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Cleopatra is wreathed by so many outsized myths that it is sometimes difficult to tell the woman from the legend. For centuries, historians have scarcely deviated from the occidental, Horatian...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization
An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale...
Egypt
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Cleopatra's Palace
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