Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt, (Paperback)

from librisalexandria

f you don't know anything about ancient Egypt, this is the first book to read on the subject. It made me fall in love with Egyptology. Ms. Mertz guides the reader through this civilization's 3,000-year-long history with grace and humor. She makes it seem like an easy read, and yet, when you finis...

from librisalexandria

If you don't know anything about ancient Egypt, this is the first book to read on the subject. It made me fall in love with Egyptology. Ms. Mertz guides the reader through this civilization's 3,000-year-long history with grace and humor. She makes it seem like an easy read, and yet, when you fini...

from Naura.Milano

If only public schools would teach Egyptian history from books like this! Chatty, assuming without being superior that you don't know much, it is such an easy, fun read. Regrettably, Barbara Mertz is no longer with us, but she's left a one-of-a-kind legacy we can all enjoy. Too bad there's not a ...

from librisalexandria

f you don't know anything about ancient Egypt, this is the first book to read on the subject. It made me fall in love with Egyptology. Ms. Mertz guides the reader through this civilization's 3,000-year-long history with grace and humor. She makes it seem like an easy read, and yet, when you finis...

from setnahkt

Probably the most readable history of ancient Egypt available[/url] (especially when coupled with the parallel Red Land, Black Land). Barbara Mertz graduated from the University of Chicago with a PhD in Egyptology in the 1950s and promptly discovered the market for female Egyptologists was not ex...