| #2761868 in Books | Taschen | 1999-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 12.84 x1.08 x9.88l,.0 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | ||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Don't judge this book by its cover!|By Diotima|The best picture is on the cover (courtesy of e.t. archive, London). There's nothing new here: all the pictures are reproduced from various photo archives. Quite a few photos are out-of-focus and/or over-exposed. If you're looking for really good pictures that have been newly photographed see those by Araldo De Luca in "|About the Author|The authors: Rose-Marie Hagen was born in Switzerland and studied History and Literature in Lausanne. Rainer Hagen studied Literature and Theater Science in Munich. They are also the authors of What Great Paintings Say.
What do we really know about our ancestors? Not about the rulers and generals, but about laborers, farmers, soldiers and families. Egypt is a perfect case in point, almost a blank slate for most of us as it regards details of their everyday life. This useful and informative book attempts to set the record straight by offering a distinctive take on that most mythologized of epochs. Who would have guessed, for example, that the first strike in recorded history took pl...
You easily download any file type for your device.Egypt: People, Gods, Pharaohs (Jumbo) | Rose-Marie Hagen, Rainer Hagen. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
