A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt (inbunden, eng)

<p><b>Spend a year in the company of the ancient Egyptians, during the twenty-sixth and final year of the reign of Amenhotep II (<i>c.</i>1400 BC), which saw a royal transition bringing Thutmose IV to the throne of Upper and Lower Egypt. </b><br><br>While builders from the secluded village of royal tomb workers rush to complete <b>Amenhotep’s tomb</b>, and craftsmen labour to finish the numerous extravagant objects to accompany the god-king in his burial, most Egyptians go about their daily lives in ways unchanged for eons.<br><br>Following the<b> Egyptian calendar year</b>, which was divided into<b> three seasons</b> (flooding, sowing and harvest), we will meet a <b>farmer</b> and his family, an <b>embalmer</b>, an <b>artisan</b>, a <b>royal physician</b>, a <b>priest</b> and even a<b> royal wife</b> as they live their lives in Thebes and Memphis during the <b>eighteenth dynasty of the New Kingdom </b>in this remarkable year in ancient Egyptian history.</p>

Format	Inbunden
Omfång	272 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Utgivningsdatum	2022-05-12
ISBN	9781789293654