The pharaohs who created such great monuments as the Valley of the Kings and the temples at Karnak have been the subject of many books. But there has been little written for the general reader about the lives of ordinary Egyptians - the bureaucrats, scribes, craftsmen, and farmers - who were also part of this great civilization. In this book, T.G.H.James shows us in fascinating details what paintings and inscriptions from tombs and temples, official archives, private correspondence, accounts, and dispatches reveal aboutthe lives of men and women who lived more than three thousand years ago.

Pharaoh's People

History

T.G.H. James

Middle East

University of Chicago Press (Trd)

An Introduction to Ancient Egypt

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

An illustrated collection of fourteen Egyptian myths accompanied by background material about Egyptian civilization.

Myths and legends of ancient Egypt, (A Grosset all-color guide, 27)

Grosset&Dunlap

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Kegan Paul International

British Museum and Ancient Egypt

Ancient Civilizations

BRITISH MUSEUM PUB.

From tbe earliest times the Egyptians used bold, bright colours to decorate their buildings, sculptures, papyri, coffins and funerary chests. The large tomb-paintings in the British Museum are the most brilliant examples of their artistry but their love of colour shows also in the small vignettes of painted papyri. 
 This book surveys the whole range of Egypian painting, illustrated chiefly by the wealth of material in the British Museum. T.G.H. Jamesexamines the material used by the ancient painters and explains the conventions and methods which governed some great artists, whose work should be valued in its own right as well as for its incomparable record record of Egyptian life 3000 years ago.

EGYPTIAN PAINTING

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

BRITISH MUSEUM

Tutankhamun: The Eternal Splendor of the Boy Pharaoh Tutankhamun: The Eternal Splendor of the Boy Pharaoh Tutankhamun: The Eternal Splendor of the Boy Pharaoh

Tutankhamun: The Eternal Splendor of the Boy Pharaoh

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Fall_River_Press

Egypt : The Treasures of the Great Pharaohs

VMB.

The Great Pharaohs

White Star Publishers

The purpose of this book is to describe by text and illustration the extraordinary tomb of this seemingly unimportant king of the late Eighteenth Dynasty, with its exceptional contents. An introductory chapter sets the historical scene for the reign of Tutankhamun, placing it in the context of the anciently reviled period of heresy associated with King Akhenaten, and its disintegration after his death. Tutankhamun ruled on the point of the change back to a traditional Egyptian regime, with the rehabilitation of the old gods, a change, which was consolidated after his death by his general Horemheb. A second chapter discusses the archaeology of the discovery of the tomb by Howard Carter in 1922. It will show, more clearly than has previously been appreciated, how Carter's obsession with the Valley of the Kings and, secondarily with the Amarna Period and its aftermath, developed from his earliest days in Egypt, the course of this search for 'the' royal tomb. The drama of the final season, with the discovery, the revelation of a virtually un-robbed royal tomb's contents, and the poignant death of the Earl of Caernarfon, provides the element of the Greek tragedy to this unique event. A large selection of the objects found in the tomb is described in the main body of the book. Colour photographs specially taken for this publication accompany the descriptive texts, which place the objects in their distinctive settings as exceptional example of the creativity of the ancient Egyptian artists and craftsmen.

Tutankhamun (Treasures of Ancient Egypt)

White Star 2006-05

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