Black Sands the First Pharaoh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Sands the First Pharaoh write by Manuel Godoy. This book was released on 2019-11-24. Black Sands the First Pharaoh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The First Pharaoh # 2
The First Pharaoh # 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First Pharaoh # 2 write by Manuel Godoy. This book was released on 2021-11. The First Pharaoh # 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The First Pharaoh
The First Pharaoh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First Pharaoh write by Lester Picker. This book was released on 2012-09-27. The First Pharaoh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout antiquity Egypt was a land of hundreds of tiny villages, with constantly warring tribes, loosely divided between Upper and Lower Egypt. Then, in the space of a few extraordinary decades, the impossible happened. An incredible man, King Narmer (also known as Menes), united Upper and Lower Egypt. The First Pharaoh is the story of Narmer and his epic journey, seen through his eyes and those of his Chief Scribe, the shaman Anhotek. We experience the culture Narmer lived in and shaped, the battles he fought to unite his people, the woman he loved and nearly lost, the enemies even in his own court who plotted against him, and his many successes and painful failures. Above all, we see how Narmer's loving relationship with Anhotek defined his personal vision for his country and its people. Written on a huge tapestry, The First Pharaoh allows us to share Narmer's far-reaching visions for Egypt's future that were so compelling and that ultimately proved so enduring. The First Pharaoh tells the inspiring story of the mythic journey of the visionary hero, through obstacles and triumphs, wars and peace, love and hate, to launch the greatest civilization ever to appear on earth.
The Sleeper In The Sands
The Sleeper In The Sands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sleeper In The Sands write by Tom Holland. This book was released on 2011-05-19. The Sleeper In The Sands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Egypt, 1922: the Valley of the Kings. After years of fruitless labour, the archaeologist Howard Carter discovers a mysterious tomb, sealed and marked with a terrible curse. But what is the nature of the tomb's deadly secret? And what is the web of strange connections spreading back through millennia, to the very heart of Egypt's fabulous past? In a glorious Arabian Nightmare of lost cities, treacherous priests and daring archaeologists, an ancient civilisation shimmers into life; colourful, magical, and unutterably strange. 'True adventure stories are all too scarce nowadays. And adventure stories that have the capacity to make the reader think and wonder are an even rarer commodity. Tom Holland's latest novel manages both with tremendous verve ... a galloping page-turner' DAILY TELEGRAPH
A World Beneath the Sands
A World Beneath the Sands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A World Beneath the Sands write by Toby Wilkinson. This book was released on 2020-10-15. A World Beneath the Sands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'It is a story full of drama, with the Nile, the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings as backdrop. That A World Beneath the Sands is also a subtle and stimulating study of the paradoxes of 19th-century colonialism is a bonus indeed.' – Tom Holland, Guardian What could be more exciting, more exotic or more intrepid than digging in the sands of Egypt in the hope of discovering golden treasures from the age of the pharaohs? Our fascination with ancient Egypt goes back to the ancient Greeks. But the heyday of Egyptology was undoubtedly the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This golden age of scholarship and adventure is neatly book-ended by two epoch-making events: Champollion's decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 and the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later. In A World Beneath the Sands, the acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson tells the riveting stories of the men and women whose obsession with Egypt's ancient civilisation drove them to uncover its secrets. Champollion, Carter and Carnarvon are here, but so too are their lesser-known contemporaries, such as the Prussian scholar Karl Richard Lepsius, the Frenchman Auguste Mariette and the British aristocrat Lucie Duff-Gordon. Their work – and those of others like them – helped to enrich and transform our understanding of the Nile Valley and its people, and left a lasting impression on Egypt, too. Travellers and treasure-hunters, ethnographers and epigraphers, antiquarians and archaeologists: whatever their motives, whatever their methods, all understood that in pursuing Egyptology they were part of a greater endeavour – to reveal a lost world, buried for centuries beneath the sands.
