Pharaoh's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt

by T.G.H. James

Book Overview

Popular interest in ancient Egypt has too often tended to focus on the deeds of rulers, great nobles, and priests. In Pharaoh’s People, T.G.H. James by contrast examines the daily working lives of Egyptians lower down the social scale: bureaucrats, scribes, craftsmen, and workers of the land. James has drawn on the evidence of paintings and inscriptions from tombs and temples, from official archives, private correspondence, accounts, and dispatches...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860648320
• ISBN13: 9781860648328
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

A WONDERFUL OVERVIEW OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN NEW KINGDOM EGYPT

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.