Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt
Author(s): Terry Deary
Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks?
Don't bet your afterlife on it.
Ancient Egypt should be deader than most of our yesterdays. After all it was at its height 5,000 years ago. Yet we still marvel at its mummies and ponder over its pyramids. It's easy to forget these people once lived and laughed, loved and breathed ... though not for very long.
These were dangerous days for princes and peasants alike. In Ancient Egypt - a world of wars and woes, poverty and plagues - life was short. Forty was a good age to reach. A pharaoh who was eaten by a hippo ended up as dead as a ditch-digger stung by a scorpion. Unwrap the bandages and you'll find that the Egyptians' bizarre adventures in life were every bit as fascinating as the monuments they left to their deaths.
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This is a wonderful imagining of Ancient Egyptian culture, from around 3150BC up until Cleopatra capitulated to Rome in 51BC. It has all that one would expect from such a title, including pyramids, plagues, gods and grave-robbers. Equally factually fascinating as tongue in cheek funny and entertaining. For lovers of historical fiction and ancient cultures.
Amarina, The Book Grocer
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- : Orion Publishing Group
- : 0.426377
- : 01 January 2016
- : 21.60 cmmm X 13.50 cmmm X 2.40 cmmm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Terry Deary
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : en
- : 224
