Egypt, People - Gods - Pharaohs - Rainer Hagen; Rose-Marie Hagen

Egypt, People - Gods - Pharaohs
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Autor: Rainer Hagen; Rose-Marie Hagen

 Wydawnictwo: Taschen
ISBN: 3822847674
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Format: 240 x 300
Oprawa: twarda
Stron: 240
Data wydania: 2006-01-02
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What do we really know about our ancestors? Not about the rulers and generals, but about laborers, farmers, soldiers and families. Egypt is a perfect case in point, almost a blank slate for most of us as it regards details of their everyday life. This useful and informative book attempts to set the record straight by offering a distinctive take on that most mythologized of epochs. Who would have guessed, for example, that the first strike in recorded history took place in 1152 BC during work on the necropolis in the Valley of the Kings, a protest by construction workers against delayed deliveries of oil and flour? Two fairly banal commodities maybe, but essential: oil protected the skin against the savage desert climate, whilst flour was the base ingredient for thirty different kinds of nutritional cake.

It is this detailed examination of the evidence that distinguishes this volume, with chapters on everything from relationships to leisure activities, the role of women to the manufacture of mummies. And just like the mummies, "fragile as eggshell but solid as a statue" and magically able to transcend death, both people and country are brought alive for us again.

Książka "Egypt, People - Gods - Pharaohs"
Rainer Hagen; Rose-Marie Hagen