Showing The Seventy Great Mysteries of Ancient Egypt by Bill Manley
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HardCover Pub Date: November 2003 Pages: 304 in Publisher: Thames & Hudson Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! In this new compendium in the popular Seventies series. Egyptologists and archaeologists probe mysteries and puzzles such as origins of the ancient Egyptians. the mummification process. and the murder (or not) of Tut. A selection of Discovery Channel. History. and Book-of-the-Month clubs.Contents: List of contributorsp. 8King-list and chronologyp. 10Ancient mysteriesp. 12Mapp. 17The Earliest EgyptiansWhere did the Egyptians come fromp. 21Did the Egyptians invent writingp. 24Who were the first kings of Egyptp. 28King Menes: myth or realityp. 33Human sacrifice in the royal tombsp. 35The royal boat burials at Abydosp . 38Pyramids & TombsOrigins of the pyramidsp. 45What is a pyramid forp. 50Were the pyramids built by slavesp. 54T...