- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks (24 Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1860648320
- ISBN-13: 978-1860648328
- Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 13.2 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,095,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Detailed and lucidly written.' - Barry Kemp, TLS '... the depiction of Egyptian life is both accurate and convincing.' - Bruce Trigger, IJAHS 'A fine book, worthy of recommendation to anyone...' - J.A.S. Evans, American Historical Review"
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This study examines the daily working lives of Egyptians low down on the social scale: bureaucrats, scribes, craftsmen and workers of the land. What sort of houses did they live in and how were they furnished? How was justice administered? How were public records kept? And how was business conducted in a thriving economy largely based on barter? T.G.H. James has drawn on the evidence of paintings and inscriptions from tombs and temples, from official archives, private correspondence, accounts and dispatches. Most of the texts have been newly translated for this book and, in examining them, the author aims to bring to life the intricacies of daily life under the Pharaohs.
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The kings of Egypt ruled an undivided nation in antiquity for three thousand years, with occasional, relatively short, periods of anarchy and foreign domination, before their country was absorbed into the ambit of the Graeco-Roman world. Read the first page
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The kings of Egypt ruled an undivided nation in antiquity for three thousand years, with occasional, relatively short, periods of anarchy and foreign domination, before their country was absorbed into the ambit of the Graeco-Roman world. Read the first page
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A WONDERFUL OVERVIEW OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN NEW KINGDOM EGYPT, 1 Nov 2000
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This review is from: Pharaoh's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt (Hardcover)
For anyone interested in knowing how was it like to live under the rule of the great New Kingdom Pharaohs of Egypt, this is the book. With grace and elegant style, Dr. James gifted us with a wonderful overview of everyday life taking as evidence the registers from tomb and temple wallpaintings and inscriptions, from which he has taken nice and amusing "bites of reality". There are texts from private and official letters and bussiness-documents; everything was masterly handed by the great British Egyptologist, so as to let us recover a lively glimpse of ancient Egyptians and their way-of-life in those golden ages.
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