This fascinating study brings to life the people who lived and died at Deir el-Medina over three thousand years ago--the workers who built the tombs of the pharaohs in the nearby Valley of the Kings. Dr. Bierbrier draws on the thousands of documents, letters, literary texts, and drawings found at the site to give an intimate glimpse of life in the village.
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Morris Bierbrier is an assistant keeper in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, and the author of The Late New Kingdom in Egypt.
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An Excellent history of a little known group of Egyptians,
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This review is from: The Tomb-Builders of the Pharaohs (Paperback)
The valley of the Kings in Egypt has enticed numerous archeologists in search of the burial sites of the Pharoahs. These remarkable tombs were built by skilled workers who had a special city built for them and their families. Mr. Bierbrier has researched and done a scholarly work about these workers and their day to day lives. We learn that the more things change, the more they stay the same, as the same day to day and family problems that we have today are very much the same as those who lived 3,000 years ago. It is certainly a distant mirror and one that students of Egypt will enjoy. It is well written and I am particularly proud of this book as Mr. Bierbrier is a cousin of mine. This however did not affect my opinion of this fine work.
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MUCH OF WHAT WE KNOW of ancient Egypt comes to us from royal inscriptions, from the tombs of the Pharaohs, and from the monuments of officials. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Valley of the Kings, British Museum, Eighteenth Dynasty, Medinet Habu, Twentieth Dynasty, Valley of the Queens, Nineteenth Dynasty, Twenty-first Dynasty, Berlin Museum, Duke of Hamilton, Henry Salt, New Kingdom, Upper Egypt New!
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MUCH OF WHAT WE KNOW of ancient Egypt comes to us from royal inscriptions, from the tombs of the Pharaohs, and from the monuments of officials. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Valley of the Kings, British Museum, Eighteenth Dynasty, Medinet Habu, Twentieth Dynasty, Valley of the Queens, Nineteenth Dynasty, Twenty-first Dynasty, Berlin Museum, Duke of Hamilton, Henry Salt, New Kingdom, Upper Egypt New!
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- Valley of the Kings by Elizabeth E. Carter on page 141
- The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh by W. M. Flinders Petrie in Back Matter
- Hieratic Ostraca, Vol. 1 by J. Cerny in Back Matter
- Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae, etc.: Pt. 10 by British Museum in Back Matter
- Egyptian Archaeology by G. Maspero in Back Matter
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- Pharaoh's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt by T. G. H. James on 4 pages
- Pharaoh's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt by T. G. H. James on 4 pages
- Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller (Studies in African American History and Culture) by Nilgun Anadolu-Okur in Front Matter
- The Sculptors Models of the Late Ptolemaic Periods: A Study of the Type and Function of a Group of Ancient Egyptian Artefacts by Nadja Tomoum on page 53
- The Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David in Back Matter
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