The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Egypt
The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Egypt provides a lively and accessible introduction to ancient Egyptian life for general readers and students. The nearly independent chapters provide a comprehensive survey of ancient Egypt and its rich and well-documented culture. In addition to individual chapter bibliographies there is a general bibliography, an annotated list of important museum collections, a king list with a selected set of illustrated royal cartouches, and a general index.

Highlights include:

  • Lively overviews distilled from the latest discoveries and research
  • Maps, plans, reconstruction drawings, chronologies, site lists and recommendations for further reading
  • Hundreds of color and black-and-white illustrations

T.G.H. James is a former Keeper of the Department of Ancient Egypt and the Sudan in the British Museum and is the author of several books on Egypt and Egyptology, including Pharoah's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt; Howard Carter; Tutankhamun; and others.

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The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Egypt
The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Egypt provides a lively and accessible introduction to ancient Egyptian life for general readers and students. The nearly independent chapters provide a comprehensive survey of ancient Egypt and its rich and well-documented culture. In addition to individual chapter bibliographies there is a general bibliography, an annotated list of important museum collections, a king list with a selected set of illustrated royal cartouches, and a general index.

Highlights include:

  • Lively overviews distilled from the latest discoveries and research
  • Maps, plans, reconstruction drawings, chronologies, site lists and recommendations for further reading
  • Hundreds of color and black-and-white illustrations

T.G.H. James is a former Keeper of the Department of Ancient Egypt and the Sudan in the British Museum and is the author of several books on Egypt and Egyptology, including Pharoah's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt; Howard Carter; Tutankhamun; and others.

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The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Egypt

The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Egypt

by T.G.H. James
The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Egypt

The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Egypt

by T.G.H. James

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The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Egypt provides a lively and accessible introduction to ancient Egyptian life for general readers and students. The nearly independent chapters provide a comprehensive survey of ancient Egypt and its rich and well-documented culture. In addition to individual chapter bibliographies there is a general bibliography, an annotated list of important museum collections, a king list with a selected set of illustrated royal cartouches, and a general index.

Highlights include:

  • Lively overviews distilled from the latest discoveries and research
  • Maps, plans, reconstruction drawings, chronologies, site lists and recommendations for further reading
  • Hundreds of color and black-and-white illustrations

T.G.H. James is a former Keeper of the Department of Ancient Egypt and the Sudan in the British Museum and is the author of several books on Egypt and Egyptology, including Pharoah's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt; Howard Carter; Tutankhamun; and others.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780472031375
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 09/30/2005
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.75(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

T.G.H. James is a former Keeper of the Department of Ancient Egypt and the Sudan in the British Museum and is the author of several books on Egypt and Egyptology, including Pharoah's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt; Howard Carter; Tutankhamun; and others.
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