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- catalog abstract ""Explore the daily lives of ordinary people in ancient Egypt (3000 to 30 B.C.E.) through reconstructions based on the hieroglyphic inscriptions, paintings from tombs, and scenes from the temple walls of the people themselves. Students can use this up-to-date resource on the subject to examine the history of one of our oldest civilizations. Detailed descriptions of its religion, its unusual form of government, the manner of ancient work and play, its magnificent art, the reasons for its military domination, and its intellectual accomplishments are included to help recreate the time period. Modern readers will be surprised to find fundamental similarities between our lives today and the lives of these ancient peoples living over 4,000 years ago."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11581232.
- catalog contributor b11581233.
- catalog coverage "Egypt Social life and customs To 332 B.C.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Explore the daily lives of ordinary people in ancient Egypt (3000 to 30 B.C.E.) through reconstructions based on the hieroglyphic inscriptions, paintings from tombs, and scenes from the temple walls of the people themselves. Students can use this up-to-date resource on the subject to examine the history of one of our oldest civilizations. Detailed descriptions of its religion, its unusual form of government, the manner of ancient work and play, its magnificent art, the reasons for its military domination, and its intellectual accomplishments are included to help recreate the time period. Modern readers will be surprised to find fundamental similarities between our lives today and the lives of these ancient peoples living over 4,000 years ago."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. History -- 2. Religion -- 3. Government and Society -- 4. Work and Play -- 5. Food -- 6. Clothes and Other Adornments -- 7. Architecture -- 8. Arts and Crafts -- 9. Warfare -- 10. Medicine and Mathematics.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 253 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0313303134 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "The Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series, 1080-4749".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,".
- catalog spatial "Egypt Social life and customs To 332 B.C.".
- catalog subject "932 21".
- catalog subject "DT61 .B685 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. History -- 2. Religion -- 3. Government and Society -- 4. Work and Play -- 5. Food -- 6. Clothes and Other Adornments -- 7. Architecture -- 8. Arts and Crafts -- 9. Warfare -- 10. Medicine and Mathematics.".
- catalog title "Daily life of the ancient Egyptians / Bob Brier and Hoyt Hobbs.".
- catalog type "text".