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The Egypt story : its art, its monuments, its people, its history
- Title
- The Egypt story : its art, its monuments, its people, its history / photographs by Fred J. Maroon ; text by P.H. Newby ; consultants, art and Egyptology, Edna R. Russmann, David B. O'Connor, and David P. Silverman.
- Author
- Maroon, Fred J.
- Publication
- New York, New York : Abbeville Press, [1979]
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- Description
- 259 pages : illustrations, portraits; 32 cm
- Summary
- A look at the art and people that make up the history of Egypt.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "A Chanticleer Press edition."
- Includes index.
- Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.
- Contents
- Ramses the great -- The Pharaoh as theologian: Akhenaton and his predecessors -- Maat and other deities -- A different people -- The meaning of pyramids -- The new kingdom and the city of Thebes -- The Greeks and Alexandria -- The rivers gives all -- Farmers of the black land -- The people and the animals they loved -- The Christian wave: coptic monks -- The daily round -- Mosques and fatimid masters -- Mameluke rulers and moslem rituals -- The land of Egypt -- Modern Egypt in the making -- Suez and the wider world -- The Western Desert and the promise of the future.
- ISBN
- 0896590240
- 9780896590243
- LCCN
- 78032058
- OCLC
- ocm04593430
- 4593430
- SCSB-2272877
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries