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The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Egypt
The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Egypt Author:T.G.H. James 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 i... more »s 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.« less