Egypt
TASCHEN 25 - Special edition!
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.
About the author:
Rose-Marie Hagen was born in Switzerland and studied history, Romance languages and literature in Lausanne. After further studies in Paris and Florence, she lectured at the American University in Washington D.C. Rainer Hagen was born in Hamburg and graduated in literature and theatre studies in Munich. He later worked for radio and TV, most recently as chief editor of a German public broadcasting service. Together they have produced 15 episodes of the TV series History In Pictures, and collaborated on several TASCHEN titles, including What Great Paintings Say I & II, and Francisco de Goya.
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 Egypt
Hagen, Dr. Rainer & Rose-Marie
Hardcover, 24 x 30 cm (9.4 x 11.8 in.), 240 pages $ 14.99 ISBN: 978-3-8228-4767-1 Edition: English Availability: Not in Stock |
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"Petit prix mais grande leçon. De l'Egypte don du Nil à l'Egypte et l'Occident, les éditions TASCHEN offrent une belle introduction aux mystères et raffinements de la civilisation pharaonique. Ecriture, temples, momies et pyramides sont de la partie, mais on trouvera également un chapitre sur les grèves des ouvriers funéraires et un guide pratique de l'au-delà! Le tout est richement iconographié et les textes sont des modèles de clarté."
Geo Historie, Paris, France
Geo Historie, Paris, France
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