Introduces daily life in ancient Egypt, inviting readers to lift the flaps and view the scenes and activities at a market, temple, pyramid construction site, and royal burial. On board pages.

Step inside the sun-scorched deserts of Ancient Egypt to visit magnificent temples by the mighty River Nile, busy towns, and tombs filled with glittering treasure.

This lift-the-flap book is packed with interesting information about the ancient world, from the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt, to the rise of the great Mayan culture in Central America.

Travel back to Ancient China to see emperors in palaces, traders on the Silk Road and soldiers guarding the Great Wall. With lively illustrations and flaps to lift, this book tells China's amazing history - a story of invading armies, incredible inventions and stunning works of art.

Collections of scenes and texts designated variously as the "Book of the Earth," "Creation of the Solar Disc," and "Book of Aker" were inscribed on the walls of royal sarcophagus chambers throughout Egypt's Ramessid period (Dynasties 19-20). This material illustrated discrete episodes from the nocturnal voyage of the sun god, which functioned as a model for the resurrection of the deceased king. These earliest "Books of the Earth" employed mostly ad hoc arrangements of scenes, united by shared elements of iconography, an overarching, bipartite symmetry of composition, and their frequent pairing with representations of the double sky overhead. From the Twenty-First Dynasty and later, selections of programmatic tableaux were adapted for use in private mortuary contexts, often in conjunction with innovative or previously unattested annotations. The present study collects and analyzes all currently known Book of the Earth material, including discussions of iconography, grammar, orthography, and architectural setting.

Describes the role of mummies and pyramids in Egyptian civilization and their influence on later culture, with discussion of mummies in other parts of the world and suggested Web addresses to enhance the reader's research.

This board book, filled with scenes and revealing flaps, shows you what really went on in castles.