The World of the Pharaohs: A Complete Guide to Ancient Egypt

by Christine Hobson el-Mahdy and Christine Hobson

Book Overview

Here is an essential book for anyone intrigued by the ancient land of the pyramids. It offers not only a comprehensive record of civilization along the Nile, but also an in-depth account of the growth of Eqyptian archaeology from its beginnings. 184 illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500050465
• ISBN13: 9780500050460
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Thanks Ms. Hobson

I always believed ancient Egyptian culture is the zenith point of the human kind on its age, their culture was far beyond complex than we believed, and gave birth to greek culture and roman empire's culture and nourished comtemporary cultures.This book is an essential for an ancient egypt culture beginner and more, even it's an intermediate book for egypt it's very good on making you grasp egyptian heritage chronologically, informative and clear, easy reading. Very good covering of ancient egyptian culture.I definetely recommend this book if you are a starter. It has plenty of pictures, diagrams which are adequate and correctly chosen for understanding egypt. It even has a hieroglyph reading section. But this book is scholarly minded and organized carefully. Not for magic or egyptian extraterrestrial mambo-jambo seekers nor serious researchers of egypian cryptology and mystery. Oh! Should I say thank you Ms. Hobson.

Completely covers all aspects of Ancient Egyptian culture

Christine Hobson's book is very good. I used it as a textbook for class, but found that the subjects in the book read more like a novel. There is humor, and concentrations on art, daily life, writings, individual archaeologists, etc. It is very interesting, and covers so many subjects!