Nefertiti Lived Here [Facsimile] [Paperback]

Mary Chubb (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1901965015 | ISBN-13: 978-1901965018 | Publication Date: December 1, 1998

This is the first book written by archaeologist and broadcastor Mary Chubb about her adventures and experiences on various digs in the Near East and East Mediterranean. This story concerns her time at the site of Tell el Amarna in Egypt, the city of Akhenaten, in 1930. Written as a novel, but full of historical facts and real-life experiences.

Product Details

• Paperback: 181 pages
• Publisher: Libri Publications (December 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1901965015
• ISBN-13: 978-1901965018
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,876,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Memoir Extraordinaire, June 22, 2005

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Elizabeth Brackman (Tampa, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nefertiti Lived Here (Paperback)

Mary Chubb's writing is highly readable and engaging. Her memoir opens on a dreary 1929 February morning in Bloomsbury England, when she finds herself in the basement of the local Egyptological Society offices as the secretary searching for some lost file. She finds instead an ancient Egyptian tile, taken from a dig at Tell el Amarna and stored in the Society's offices with the sand from Egypt still on it.

That one little tile sparks her imagination to travel to Egypt with the next expedition and what follows is a fantastic true story of her adventures on the archaeological dig in the Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and his lovely Queen Nefertiti's city.

I have rarely read such a lovely, lighthearted but factual account of someone's travels. A witty, fast-paced book that reads much like a novel, I highly recommend Nefertiti Lived Here to anyone interested in Egypt, memoirs or travel writing in general.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quite good, to me, May 6, 2005

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Marlene R. Powell (Cincinnati) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nefertiti Lived Here (Paperback)

It's been a few years since I've read this book (from library), and was very sorry to find that, at the time, it was long out of print.
I'm glad to see that someone has taken enough interest to republish!

The first reviewer is right; it's not so much about Nefertiti as the ruins at Amarna (Ankhetaten), from the Amarna Period of Egypt. It's a sort of memoir, from Mary Chubb's point of view, of one particular excavation in Tel el-Amarna.

If you're interested in Ankhenaten and Nefertiti, suppositions on how they lived their life, guesses on how Tuthankhamen (king tut) was related to them, and how an expedition of a reletively new site is carried out, this is a very good book to read. But I'll warn you: it has far more to do with the archeology and the ruins than it has to do with Nefertiti herself.

Nefertiti lived in Amarna. Nefertiti lived here. Get it?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Charming, flitty little ditty; sometimes witty., March 10, 2011

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Mendicant Pigeon "Mendicant Pigeon" (pdx, or United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nefertiti Lived Here (Paperback)

This is a short, kind of slapdash memoir of a brief time spent on an archeological dig upstream of Cairo in Egypt during the year 1930.
The author was brought in as a kind of secretary cum general dogsbody.
It is a charmingly told tale, if a bit sketchy in detail more impressionistic actually, but generally a good, light read.
The included illustrations in the form of line drawings are especially appreciated and one wishes there had been more; a bit like the story itself, actually.