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Egypt in the age of the pyramids
- Title
- Egypt in the age of the pyramids / Guillemette Andreu ; translated from the French by David Lorton.
- Author
- Andreu, Guillemette.
- Publication
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DT61 .A6313 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Lorton, David, 1945-2011
- Description
- 171 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The Golden Age of Ancient Egypt comes alive as Guillemette Andreu re-creates the details of daily life. Construction sites team with workers building the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx. Administrators bustle to and fro, handling their assignments from the pharaoh's court. Scribes train themselves to draft a variety of letters. Andreu describes the Egyptians as they spend a day in the marshes with family and friends. They glide on light skiffs through the papyrus plants. Stopping occasionally to marvel at the marsh creatures: frogs, butterflies, kingfishers, ibises, herons, lapwings, weasels, and mongooses. Because the marshes also shelter crocodiles and hippopotamuses, the day is not without its perils. In her vivid representation of Egyptian life, Andreu makes use of letters from family archives, full of household instructions from travelers and nostalgic greetings from grown children living away from their parents. The principal source of evidence for Egyptian life styles between 2650 and 1750 B.C. are the scenes carved or painted on the walls of tombs. Short hieroglyphic inscriptions accompany these images, recording what might have been said by the men and women pictured.
- Series Statement
- Cornell paperbacks
- Uniform Title
- Egypte au temps des pyramides. English
- Cornell paperbacks
- Alternative Title
- Egypte au temps des pyramides.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-160) and indexes.
- Contents
- Age of the pyramids -- Pharaoh's subjects -- Public works -- Scribes and scholars -- Arts, crafts, and trades -- Family life -- Busy day -- Life in the country -- Fishing and hunting -- People of believers.
- ISBN
- 0801432227
- 9780801432224
- 0801483131
- 9780801483134
- LCCN
- 96048461
- OCLC
- ocm35849137
- 35849137
- SCSB-2122978
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library