Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt - Softcover

Mertz, Barbara

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9780872262232: Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt

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ISBN 10: 0872262235 ISBN 13: 9780872262232

Publisher: Peter Bedrick Books, 1990

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An eye-opening, edifying, and endlessly entertaining tour through an astonishing bygone world€”the acclaimed classic history of ancient Egypt, now newly revised and updated Writing as Elizabeth Peters, world-renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz is the author of the phenomenally popular New York Times bestselling mystery series featuring archaeologist Amelia Peabody. In Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs, Dr. Mertz explores the breathtaking reality behind her fiction by casting a dazzling light on a remarkable civilization that, even after thousands of years, still stirs the human imagination and inspires awe with its marvelous mysteries and amazing accomplishments. A fascinating chronicle of an extraordinary epoch€”from the first Stone Age settlements through the reign of Cleopatra and the Roman invasions€”Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs brings ancient Egypt to life as never before. Lavishly illustrated with

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About the Author:

Barbara Mertz is a New York Times bestselling author who writes the popular Amelia Peabody mystery series under the pen name Elizabeth Peters and romantic suspense novels as Barbara Michaels. She was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar Awards in 1998, she lives in a historic farmhouse in western Maryland.

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Barbara Mertz is best known as a novelist, writing under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels, but in her earlier life she was an archaeologist, specializing in Egyptology. Mertz brings a novelist�s skills to this popular history of ancient Egypt, first published in 1990, so the prose is hardly academic. However, even though the material has been revised and updated, it still feels dated in both its content and its cloying, almost patronizing, style. Lorna Raver�s narration is skillful as always, and she cannot be held responsible for the book�s tone. Neither can she shake off the flaws that make it sound schoolmarmish. D.B. � AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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