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Temples, tombs, & hieroglyphs, a popular history of ancient Egypt, Barbara Mertz

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Temples, tombs, & hieroglyphs, a popular history of ancient Egypt, Barbara Mertz

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-311) and index

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mapsplatesillustrations

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

Temples, tombs, & hieroglyphs

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bibliography

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Barbara Mertz

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a popular history of ancient Egypt

Table Of Contents

1. The two lands -- Geb the Hunter -- The wagon or the mountain -- Troubles with time -- Wearers of the double crown -- Wars of religion? -- 2. Houses of eternity -- King Djoser's magician -- Good King Snefru -- The missing Queen -- Children of Re -- 3. The good shepherd -- Despair and deliverance -- Binder of the two lands -- 4. The fight for freedom -- Invasion -- Liberation -- 5. The woman who was king -- Hatshepsut the Queen -- The King of Upper and Lower Egypt -- The Hatshepsut problem -- The other Hatshepsut problem -- 6. The conqueror -- 7. The power and the glory -- Amenhotep II -- Amenhotep the Magnificent -- 8. The great heresy -- 9. The broken reed -- Look on my works! -- Ramses II -- Peoples of the sea -- 10. The long dying -- Adventures of a man of no consequence -- The quick and the dead -- Tomb robbers and royal mummies -- Mummy musical chairs -- The third intermediate period -- Horsemen from the holy mountain -- Back to the drawing board -- The final humiliation

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Temples, tombs, and hieroglyphs

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