In ancient Egypt women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, or in fact by most women until the late nineteenth century. They could own and trade in property, work outside the home, marry foreigners and live alone without the protection of a male guardian. Some of them even rose to rule Egypt as ‘female kings’. Joyce Tyldesley’s vivid history of how women lived in ancient Egypt weaves a fascinating picture of daily life – marriage and the home, work and play, grooming and religion – viewed from a female perspective, in a work that is engaging, original and constantly surprising.

Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt

History

Tyldesley, Joyce A.

Ancient Civilizations

Penguin??Books

Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh

Egypt's Queen—or, as she would prefer to be remembered, King—Hatchepsut ruled over an age of peace, prosperity, and remarkable architectural achievement (c. 1490 b.c.). Had she been born a man, her reign would almost certainly have been remembered for its stable government, successful trade missions, and the construction of one of the most beautiful structures in the world—the Deir el-Bahri temple at Luxor. After her death, however, her name and image were viciously attacked, her monuments destroyed or usurped, her place in history systematically obliterated. At last, in this dazzling work of archaeological and historical sleuthing, Joyce Tyldesley rescues this intriguing figure from more than two thousand years of oblivion and finally restores the female pharaoh to her rightful prominence as the first woman in recorded history to rule a nation.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen

Nefertiti (c.1350 BC) is widely known from the exquisite painted bust of her in the Berlin Museum. But beyond this image we know little about her. Wife of Akhenaten, the monotheistic pharaoh, adored by her family, blessed by the sun god, and worshipped by her people, Nefertiti suddenly and completely vanished from the record. Was she banished by her husband or raised to rule as his equal? Did she reign, under another name, in her own right? Could she have been the `eminence grise' behind the young Tutankhamun, her son-in-law? Tyldesley draws on archaeological, textual and artistic evidence in a detailed discussion of Nefertiti's life and times at the ephemeral and heretical Amarna court.

Penguin Group USA Inc.

Ramesses II was the archetypal Egyptian pharaoh: a mighty warrior, an extravagant builder, husband of the beautiful Nefertiti, and father of scores of children. Even today, epic tales of Ramesses endure. Using a combination of historical and archaeological evidence, Joyce Tyldesley thoroughly explores the life and times of Egypt's greatest king.

Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh

Pyramids

This title follows the origins, development and final collapse of the pyramid as a form of royal tomb and includes a detailed history of the lives and deaths of the pyramid families - kings, servants and slaves.

Penguin Global

For over a decade, Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world: a beautiful queen blessed by the sun god, adored by her family, and worshipped by her people. Her image and her name were celebrated throughout Egypt and her future seemed golden. Suddenly Nefertiti disappeared from the royal family, vanishing so completely that it was as if she had never been. No record survives to detail her death, no monument serves to mourn her passing, and to this day her end remains an enigma—her body has never been found. Fully revising her classic biography of Egypt’s sun queen, historian Joyce Tyldesley draws on a wealth of scholarly and archeological evidence to investigate the truth behind the life, times, and mysterious disappearance of the legendary Nefertiti.

Nefertiti: Unlocking the Mystery Surrounding Egypt's Most Famous and Beautiful Queen

Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in the late eighteenth century sparked a global fascination with ancient Egyptian culture that remains undiminished to this day. This book, written by leading author and archaeologist Joyce Tyldesley, tells the full story of the discoveries of treasures that had lain completely hidden and undisturbed for nearly two thousand years. Tyldesley follows in the footsteps of real-life Indiana Joneses in their quest for the splendid monuments, tombs, and artifacts that have unlocked many of the secrets of this mesmerizing civilization. Crafting a riveting chronicle of historical intrigue and intrepid personalities, the author relates the beginnings of Egyptology, leading the reader from the nail-biting race to crack the code of ancient hieroglyphics to the heart-stopping moment when Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamen's burial chamber. 
 Egypt introduces the collectors, explorers, and archaeologists who have come to dominate the story of the rediscovery of ancient Egypt. Among these is Giovanni Belzoni, a circus strongman and diehard adventurer who uncovered many of the works of the greatest pharaoh of them all, Rameses II. Tyldesley describes the larger-than-life personalities and spectacular finds of characters such as Jean-François Champollion, Amelia Edwards, and Flinders Petrie. She delves into Howard Carter's dramatic discovery of the golden treasures lying deep in the burial chamber of the boy king Tutankhamen. Illustrated with full-color photographs, Egypt captures the excitement of these gripping adventures stories while highlighting the magnificence of the artifacts that were their object.

Egypt: How a Lost Civilisation was Rediscovered

University of California Press

A biography drawing on archaeological and historical evidence tells of the brilliant female pharaoh who ruled Egypt for more than twenty years, but whose name and image were viciously attacked after her reign came to an end. 12,000 first printing.

Viking Adult

A stunning re-creation of the life of an ancient Egyptian queen tells of the Pharaoh Akhenaton and his beautiful wife, whose painted bust has made her instantly recognizable to the world, and explores the reasons for her sudden disappearance from history.

The Ancient Egyptians were a fun-loving people who enjoying a wide range of sports and games. While the young men chased lions and ostriches across the desert, dignified husbands and wives relaxed over a game of senet, their children played with balls and dolls and entire families spent the day hunting fowl in the marshes. Egyptian kings took their own physical fitness and sporting prowess very seriously-as living demi-gods they expected to dominate on the sports field just as they dominated in every other sphere of Egyptian life. Sport even played an important role in Egyptian ritual, with aging kings required to demonstrate, by running a race, their continuing fitness to rule. This book traces the evidence for sport and games from Predynastic times to the end of the New Kingdom, combining archaeological, pictorial and textual sources to bring Egyptian leisure time to life. Different chapters consider athletics, hunting, martial arts and the female-dominated sports of acrobatics and dance. The board games, which played such an important role in Egyptian family life, are explored in detail-can we tell how these games were played?-and popular children's games and toys are described.

Egyptian Games and Sports (Shire Egyptology)

Sports & Outdoors

Shire

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Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt

Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh

Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen

Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh

Pyramids

Nefertiti: Unlocking the Mystery Surrounding Egypt's Most Famous and Beautiful Queen

Egypt: How a Lost Civilisation was Rediscovered

Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh

Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen

Egyptian Games and Sports (Shire Egyptology)