The Judgement of the Pharaoh: Crime and Punishment in Ancient Egypt
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Tyldesley s startlingly original book carefully unmasks for the first time Ancient Egyptian crimes and criminals. She meticulously recreates a series of crimes, from grave-robbing, false embalming, necrophilia and bestiality to a superb recreation of the murder of Tutankhamen (in which she reassesses the evidence for the murder and rejects it). She also introduces us to some of the inhabitants of the town of Dair et Medine, the dwelling place of fifty craftsmen and their families who worked exclusively in the nearby Valley of the Kings. Their crimes and misdemeanours were carefully recorded and give a vivid insight into Ancient Egyptian attitudes towards sex and death, property and punishment. This inventive and elegantly written book is a brilliant evocation of Ancient Egypt, and highly original; no other book on this gripping subject exists.
Author: Joyce A. Tyldesley
Format: Hardback, 199 pages, 162mm x 241mm, 515 g
Published: 2000, Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom
Genre: Ancient History
Tyldesley s startlingly original book carefully unmasks for the first time Ancient Egyptian crimes and criminals. She meticulously recreates a series of crimes, from grave-robbing, false embalming, necrophilia and bestiality to a superb recreation of the murder of Tutankhamen (in which she reassesses the evidence for the murder and rejects it). She also introduces us to some of the inhabitants of the town of Dair et Medine, the dwelling place of fifty craftsmen and their families who worked exclusively in the nearby Valley of the Kings. Their crimes and misdemeanours were carefully recorded and give a vivid insight into Ancient Egyptian attitudes towards sex and death, property and punishment. This inventive and elegantly written book is a brilliant evocation of Ancient Egypt, and highly original; no other book on this gripping subject exists.