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