Egyptian Art
by:
Cyril Aldred (author)
His eloquent ability to weave facts, insights and interpretations into a compulsively readable account sets his book far above the clogged texts that too often pass for art history.—The Times Educational Supplement
His eloquent ability to weave facts, insights and interpretations into a compulsively readable account sets his book far above the clogged texts that too often pass for art history.—The Times Educational Supplement
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780500201800 (0500201803)
Publish date: February 17th 1985
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Pages no: 252
Edition language: English
From the introduction:Manetho, the learnéd High Priest in Heliopolis who was commissioned by Ptolemy I in the third century BC to write a history of Egypt, divided into thirty-one dynasties the entire chronicle of events, from the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under Menes, the first pharaoh, ...
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