The Seventy Great Mysteries of Ancient Egypt
By (Author) Bill Manley
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Thames & Hudson Ltd
25th September 2003
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
African history: pre-colonial period
Ancient history
932
Hardback
304
Width 200mm, Height 260mm
Ancient Egypt - so familiar and yet so distant. We know so much about it, but there are still many unresolved questions. What were the pyramids actually for How old is the Great Sphinx Did Moses learn his beliefs at the court of Akhenaten Why did the beautiful queen Nefertiti suddenly disappear This volume explores and explains 70 of the most intriguing mysteries of this ancient civilization.
Bill Manley is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He has taught Egyptology and hieroglyphs for more than 20 years at the universities of Glasgow, Liverpool and London.