Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
by:
Barbara Mertz (author)
Esteemed Egyptologist Barbara Mertz updates her widely praised social history of the people of ancient Egypt, reconstructing the life of the Egyptians from birth to death, and beyond death, too.
Esteemed Egyptologist Barbara Mertz updates her widely praised social history of the people of ancient Egypt, reconstructing the life of the Egyptians from birth to death, and beyond death, too.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061252747 (0061252743)
Publish date: March 18th 2008
Publisher: William Morrow
Pages no: 410
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Reference,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Anthropology,
Ancient,
Egypt,
Research,
World History,
African Literature,
Egyptian Literature
I've been a fan of MPM, aka Barbara Mertz, aka Elizabeth Peters, aka Barbara Michaels, for years. Although I've read almost every book under almost all of her names, I still love the Amelia Peabody series the best. In these books, the indefatigable Amelia Peabody, parasol in hand, defies Victorian m...
Maybe it was because I was listening to this, but I had a lot of trouble staying with it, and I love Ms. Mertz's novels. I also enjoyed her other book on ancient Egypt, Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs.
~14hoursHow to be an ancient Egyptian: all you need to know about clothes, pyramids and papyrus.What a refreshing voice on a dusty subject......Elizabeth Peters writing under her real name and profession as an Egyptologist but the wry voice is unmistakable.
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