In Rosalie David's hands, the Egyptian builders of the pyramids are revealed as simple people, leading ordinary lives while they are engaged on building the great tomb for a Pharoah. This is an engrossing detective story, bringing to the general reader a fascinating picture of a special community that lived in Egypt and built one of the pyramids, some four thousand years ago.
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...[T]he book is a valuable introduction to the study of ancient Egyptian daily life that will certainly repay careful reading and study. Pleasant, compact, and easy to read, the book strikes a good balance between a strictly scholarly and a more general approach. Now in a more affordable paperback format, this book is certain to attract a broad readership.
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Rosalie David is an Egyptologist at the Manchester Museum and Director of the Manchester Egyptian Mummy Research Project and the Kahun Project. She is Honorary Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester.
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accurately presents life around Egypt's pyramid workers,
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This is the story of the first pyramid workmen's town, a fascinating story for those who want to know more about Ancient Egypt's everyday life. The image of the 'whip-driven slave' is replaced by skilled workers who worry about normal everyday problems such as family, food and work conditions. Sure, the pyramids were made by very special people, but no, these people were not mysterious aliens. This study helps humanize the Ancient Egyptians.
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a complete criticism of the egytian beliefs& traditions,
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THIS BOOK IS A FARCE-IT COMPLETELY RUINS ALL BELIEFS ABOUT,AND THEORIES ON,THE TYPICAL DAILY LIFE OF ANCIENT EGYPT.IT IS A RUTHLESS ATTACK ON THE CONCRETELY DISCOVERED FACTS ABOUT THE ANCIENT WORLD.NOT WORTH PRINTING,LET ALONE READING.
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Every civilisation reflects, to some degree, the influence of its environment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pyramid workmen, royal workmen, royal jewellery, baby burials, ground loom, limestone flakes, funerary goods, tomb scenes, pot marks, foundation deposits, medical papyri, pyramid site, pyramid complex, alluvial mud, shaft tombs, vertical loom, tomb goods, predynastic period, wooden figurine, mortuary temple Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Kingdom, Old Kingdom, New Kingdom, Beni Hasan, Manchester Museum, Upper Egypt, Papyrus Kahun, Middle Minoan, Near East, Valley of the Kings, Bahr Yusef, Jesse Haworth, King Sesostris, Berlin Papyrus, Petrie Museum, William Flinders Petrie, Archaic Period, British Museum, Lower Egypt, New York, Graeco-Roman Period, Kahun Minoan, King Akhenaten, Princess Sit-Hathor-lunut, The Histories New!
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Every civilisation reflects, to some degree, the influence of its environment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pyramid workmen, royal workmen, royal jewellery, baby burials, ground loom, limestone flakes, funerary goods, tomb scenes, pot marks, foundation deposits, medical papyri, pyramid site, pyramid complex, alluvial mud, shaft tombs, vertical loom, tomb goods, predynastic period, wooden figurine, mortuary temple Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Kingdom, Old Kingdom, New Kingdom, Beni Hasan, Manchester Museum, Upper Egypt, Papyrus Kahun, Middle Minoan, Near East, Valley of the Kings, Bahr Yusef, Jesse Haworth, King Sesostris, Berlin Papyrus, Petrie Museum, William Flinders Petrie, Archaic Period, British Museum, Lower Egypt, New York, Graeco-Roman Period, Kahun Minoan, King Akhenaten, Princess Sit-Hathor-lunut, The Histories New!
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- Multimedia Kits: Ancient Egypt *Cd by Teacher Created Materials in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Studies in Ancient Technology by R. J. Forbes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Beni Hasan: Pt. 1 (Archaeological Survey Memoirs) by P.E. Newberry on page 253, and Back Matter
- Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization by Barry J. Kemp in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Seventy Years in Archaeology by William Matthew Flinders Petrie in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Ancient Inventions by Peter James on page 640, and page 641
- Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture by Dieter Arnold on page 118, and page 187
- The Big Argument: Twenty-Four Scholars Explore How Science, Archaelogy, and Philosophy Have Proven the Existence of God by John Ashton on page 264, and page 271
- Egypt and the Egyptians by Douglas J. Brewer on page 68, and Back Matter
- Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology by Colin Chant on page 46
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