Egypt: People, Gods, Pharaohs - Hardcover

Hagen, Rose-Marie; Hagen, Rainer

 
9783822847671: Egypt: People, Gods, Pharaohs
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3822847674 ISBN 13: 9783822847671
Verlag: Taschen GmbH, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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 place in 1152 BC during work on the necropolis in the Valley of the Kings, a protest by construction workers against delayed deliveries of oil and flour? Two fairly banal commodities maybe, but essential: oil protected the skin against the savage desert climate, whilst flour was the base ingredient for thirty different kinds of nutritional cake. It is this detailed examination of the evidence that distinguishes this volume, with chapters on

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Taschen GmbH
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3822847674
ISBN 13 
9783822847671
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
240
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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