James examines the daily working lives of Egyptians lower down the social scale: bureaucrats, scribes, craftsmen, and workers of the land -- bringing to life the fascinating intricacies of daily life under the Pharaohs.

For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was a great civilization that thrived along the banks of the Nile River. But when its cities crumbled to dust, Egypt’s culture and the secrets of its hieroglyphic writings were also lost. The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt explains how archaeologists have pieced together their discoveries to slowly reveal the history of Egypt’s people, its pharaohs, and its golden days.

The Pharaohs and Their People contains depictions of old Egyptian life and history with 26 intricate and authentic illustrations and maps. Historian E. Berkley reverently and poetically describes the main Egyptian pharaohs, writings, temples and events, such as The Pyramid Builders, Instructions' of Amenemhat i, Invasion of the Hyksos, The Eighteenth Dynasty—Queen Hatasu and Thothmes iii.; Amenhotep, Rameses the Great and more.

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