The World of the Pharaohs: A Complete Guide to Ancient Egypt [Hardcover]

Christine Hobson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 26, 1987

For anyone intrigued by the mysteries of the ancient land of the pyramids, this is a record of civilization along the Nile and an account of the growth of Egyptian archaeology from its beginnings. Through the work of pioneer archaeologists - from Flinders Petrie at Amarna and Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings, to Geoffrey Martin at Saqqara - all aspects of Egypt's rich culture are examined, including tombs, temples and pyramids, hieroglyphs and mummies. A gazetteer of sites to visit is provided, along with lists of pharoahs and a comparative chronology.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

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A book that can be read from start to finish just for the pleasure of it and then kept on the shelf as an excellent reference work. -- Charleston Evening Post

Beautifully illustrated...approaches the world of the pharaohs through the archaeological discoveries that slowly revealed this civilization. -- Science News --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd; 1st edition (October 26, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0500050465
• ISBN-13: 978-0500050460
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,848,187 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Completely covers all aspects of Ancient Egyptian culture, October 9, 1999

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This review is from: The World of the Pharaohs: A Complete Guide to Ancient Egypt (Paperback)

Christine Hobson's book is very good. I used it as a textbook for class, but found that the subjects in the book read more like a novel. There is humor, and concentrations on art, daily life, writings, individual archaeologists, etc. It is very interesting, and covers so many subjects!

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks Ms. Hobson, March 6, 2001

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This review is from: The World of the Pharaohs: A Complete Guide to Ancient Egypt (Paperback)

I always believed ancient Egyptian culture is the zenith point of the human kind on its age, their culture was far beyond complex than we believed, and gave birth to greek culture and roman empire's culture and nourished comtemporary cultures.

This book is an essential for an ancient egypt culture beginner and more, even it's an intermediate book for egypt it's very good on making you grasp egyptian heritage chronologically, informative and clear, easy reading. Very good covering of ancient egyptian culture.

I definetely recommend this book if you are a starter. It has plenty of pictures, diagrams which are adequate and correctly chosen for understanding egypt. It even has a hieroglyph reading section. But this book is scholarly minded and organized carefully. Not for magic or egyptian extraterrestrial mambo-jambo seekers nor serious researchers of egypian cryptology and mystery. Oh! Should I say thank you Ms. Hobson.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A little false pretences, December 24, 2010

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This review is from: The World of the Pharaohs: A Complete Guide to Ancient Egypt (Paperback)

I have given this book only 2 stars to adjust the 2 x 5 star reviews (these reviews being the reason why I bought the book). This book is not "The world of the Pharaohs" rather "The world of Egyptian Archaeologists and Egyptologists. There is almost as much text on these people than on the Pharaohs and after a while becomes annoying. Also "A complete history to Ancient Egypt" is not possible in 192 pages.
The book is Ok as an introduction if one understands and accepts the authors fascination with the Egyptologists etc., but there is very little background to the Pharaohs and Ancient Egyptian details in general (which is clear with the limited number of pages). I found myself checking for real background in Wikipedia, which shows how it should be done.
There must be much better books out there, that concentrate on the facts of the period and the civilization of Eygpt and not the 19th and 20th century discoverers of it.