Popular interest in ancient Egypt has too often tended to focus on the deeds of rulers, great nobles and priests. In Pharaoh's People, T.G.H. James by contrast examines the daily working lives of ordinary Egyptians. What sort of houses did they live in and how were they furnished? What do we know about their family relationships, their rivalries and quarrels and the daily minutiae of their lives? T.G.H. James has drawn on the evidence of paintings and inscriptions from tombs and temples, from official archives, private correspondence, accounts and dispatches. As he reveals the fascinating intricacies of daily life under the pharaohs, we realise how much our own lives have in common with those who worked along the Nile nearly four thousand years ago.
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"Detailed and lucidly written."--Barry Kemp, Times Literary Supplement
"…the depiction of Egyptian life is both accurate and convincing."-- Bruce Trigger, IJAHS
"A fine book, worthy of recommendation to anyone …"-- J.A.S. Evans, American Historical Review
"…the depiction of Egyptian life is both accurate and convincing."-- Bruce Trigger, IJAHS
"A fine book, worthy of recommendation to anyone …"-- J.A.S. Evans, American Historical Review
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T.G.H. James was formerly Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum. He is the author of the acclaimed biography Howard Carter (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) and of a large number of books on other Egyptological subjects, including Tutankhamun (Tauris Parke).
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A WONDERFUL OVERVIEW OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN NEW KINGDOM EGYPT,
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This review is from: Pharaoh's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt (Hardcover)
For anyone interested in knowing how was it like to live under the rule of the great New Kingdom Pharaohs of Egypt, this is the book. With grace and elegant style, Dr. James gifted us with a wonderful overview of everyday life taking as evidence the registers from tomb and temple wallpaintings and inscriptions, from which he has taken nice and amusing "bites of reality". There are texts from private and official letters and bussiness-documents; everything was masterly handed by the great British Egyptologist, so as to let us recover a lively glimpse of ancient Egyptians and their way-of-life in those golden ages.
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The kings of Egypt ruled an undivided nation in antiquity for three thousand years, with occasional, relatively short, periods of anarchy and foreign domination, before their country was absorbed into the ambit of the Graeco-Roman world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
five open wounds, tomb scenes, transverse hall, student scribes, scribal training, new papyrus, hieratic script, hieroglyphic script, two craftsmen, posthumous existence, funerary temple, scribal schools Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, British Museum, Middle Kingdom, Twelfth Dynasty, Old Kingdom, Nineteenth Dynasty, The Book of the Dead, Medinet Habu, Abydos Temple of Sethos, King's House, Cambridge Ancient History, New York, Satire of Trades, Twentieth Dynasty, Upper Egypt, The Hekanakhte Papers, First Intermediate Period, King Sethos, Late-Egyptian Miscellanies, Nauri Decree, Wadi Natrun, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Commodity Prices, Eleventh Dynasty New!
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The kings of Egypt ruled an undivided nation in antiquity for three thousand years, with occasional, relatively short, periods of anarchy and foreign domination, before their country was absorbed into the ambit of the Graeco-Roman world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
five open wounds, tomb scenes, transverse hall, student scribes, scribal training, new papyrus, hieratic script, hieroglyphic script, two craftsmen, posthumous existence, funerary temple, scribal schools Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, British Museum, Middle Kingdom, Twelfth Dynasty, Old Kingdom, Nineteenth Dynasty, The Book of the Dead, Medinet Habu, Abydos Temple of Sethos, King's House, Cambridge Ancient History, New York, Satire of Trades, Twentieth Dynasty, Upper Egypt, The Hekanakhte Papers, First Intermediate Period, King Sethos, Late-Egyptian Miscellanies, Nauri Decree, Wadi Natrun, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Commodity Prices, Eleventh Dynasty New!
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- Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries by A. Lucas on 6 pages
- The Tomb-Builders of the Pharaohs by Morris Bierbrier on 4 pages
- Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction (Galaxy Books Series Gb P) by Sir Alan H. Gardiner in Front Matter, page 39, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 5: The Fifth Century BC (Volume 5) by David M. Lewis on page 64, page 209, and Back Matter
- Man, Settlement and Urbanism: Proceedings of a Meeting of the Research Seminar in Archaeology and Related Subjects Held at the Institute of Archaeology, London University by Research Seminar in Archaeology and Related Subjects London university on page 209, page 240, and page 241
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