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The female pharaoh Hatshepsut reigned for nearly twenty years during Egypt's early New Kingdom in the fifteenth century B.C. First acting as regent for her young nephew/stepson Thutmose III, she in time assumed the title of king and exercised the…

Story of the boy Her-Bak, and his growing up, illustrates the pattern of Daily life in Egypt of the 19th to 21st dynasties.

"This volume is devoted not to remains of royalty but to the tombs of private people." "Sigrid Hodel-Hoenes leads us on an expedition to the cemetery used by the officials of New Kingdom Egypt on the eastern flanks of the Western Mountain across from…

This work is a critical examination of Maat, the moral ideal in ancient Egypt. It seeks to present Maat in the language of modern moral discourse while at the same time preserving and building on its distinctiveness as a moral ideal capable of…

Examines the connections between myth and magic and the deities who had special magical importance. Discusses the techniques of magic, its practitioners, and the surviving magical texts, as well as the objects that were used in magic.

This beautifully illustrated book presents the thousand-year drama which has centered on the mysteries of the Great Pyramid of Cheops.