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050 00 $aDT61$b.L785 2004
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245 00 $aLiving in ancient Egypt /$cDon Nardo, book editor.
260 $aSan Diego, Calif. :$bGreenhaven Press,$c©2004.
300 $a159 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aExploring cultural history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 152-153) and index.
505 0 $aForeword -- Introduction: Ancient Egyptians at work and play -- People and private life: Chapter preface -- Family and home life / Charles Freeman -- Lives and rights of Egyptian women / Erika Feucht -- Love songs from the new kingdom / Anonymous -- Food and drink / James R. Romano -- Sports, games, and other leisure activities / Jill Kamil -- Everyday rules of polite conduct / Ptahhotpe, a royal vizier -- Special skills essential to society: Chapter preface -- Doctors and their cures / Adolf Erman -- Case studies of an Egyptian doctor / Anonymous -- Types and duties of Egyptian priests / Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson -- Egyptian metalsmiths and their wares / Lionel Casson -- Literacy and education dominated by scribes / H.W.F. Saggs -- Schoolbook for scribes / Nebmare-nakht the scribe -- Preparation for the afterlife: Chapter preface -- Religious festivals: Celebrations of life and death / Lynn Meskell -- Hymn to Aten / Akhenaten -- Visitor to Egypt tells how bodies were embalmed / Herodotus -- Dead Pharaoh's journey into the sky-from the Pyramid texts -- Mummifying pets and other animals / Bob Brier -- Secrets of the royal tombs: Chapter preface -- Great pyramid tombs / Desmond Stewart -- Exploring the passageways within the great pyramid / I.E.S. Edwards -- Lost city of the pyramid workers / Jack McClintock -- Opening King Tut's tomb / Steven Snape -- Chronology -- For further research -- Index -- About the editor.
520 $aDescribes what life was like in ancient Egypt, examining the family, home life, food and drink, women's roles, childhood, education, arts, literacy, means of communication, slavery religious beliefs, and more.
651 0 $aEgypt$xSocial life and customs$yTo 332 B.C.
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655 4 $aNonfiction.
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830 0 $aExploring cultural history.
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