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Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs_ A Popular History of Ancient Egypt - Barbara Mertz [160]

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the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar Awards in 1998, she lives in a historic farmhouse in western Maryland.

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ALSO BY BARBARA MERTZ

NONFICTION

Red Land, Black Land

FICTION

Writing as Elizabeth Peters

THE AMELIA PEABODY MYSTERY SERIES

Crocodile on the Sandbank

The Curse of the Pharaohs

The Mummy Case

The Deeds of the Disturber

The Last Camel Died at Noon

The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog

The Hippopotamus Pool

Seeing a Large Cat

The Ape Who Guards the Balance

The Falcon at the Portal

He Shall Thunder in the Sky

Lord of the Silent

The Golden One

Children of the Storm

Guardian of the Horizon

The Serpent on the Crown

Tomb of the Golden Bird

Credits

Jacket design by James L. Iacobelli

Jacket photograph by Dennis Forbes/KMT Communications, Inc.

Copyright

TEMPLES, TOMBS AND HIEROGLYPHS. Copyright ©1964, 2007 by Barbara Mertz. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition © OCTOBER 2007 ISBN: 9780061842368

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Foreword to the First Edition

Foreword to the Second Edition

A Note on Names

Ancient Egyptian Chronology

List of Black-and-White Illustrations

List of Color Illustrations in Photograph Insert

List of Maps

One: The Two Lands

Geb the Hunter

The Wagon or the Mountain

Troubles with Time

Wearers of the Double Crown

Wars of Religion?

Two: Houses of Eternity

King Djoser’s Magician

Good King Snefru

The Missing Queen

Children of Re

Three: The Good Shepherd

Despair and Deliverance

Binder of the Two Lands

Four: The Fight for Freedom

Invasion

Liberation

Five: The Woman Who Was King

Hatshepsut the Queen

The King of Upper and Lower Egypt

The Hatshepsut Problem

The Other Hatshepsut Problem

Photographic Insert

Six: The Conqueror

Seven: The Power and the Glory

Amenhotep II

Amenhotep the Magnificent 198

Eight: The Great Heresy

Nine: The Broken Reed

Look on My Works!

Ramses II

Peoples of the Sea

Ten: 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

Additional Reading

Sources of Quotes

Searchable Terms

About the Author

Also by Barbara Mertz

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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