Egypt | Egypt
May.16.2013
There are incidents and emergencies in the world that defy logical explanation, events that could be defined as supernatural, extraterrestrial, or simply otherworldly. Standard laws do not allow for such instances, nor are most officials or authorities trained to handle them. In recognition...
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Mar.07.2012
From the food they ate to the clothes they wore, Egyptian children lived a unique life in an ancient time. This Modern Curriculum Press edition explores the culture and social history of Egyptian life along the Nile. Susan Schott Karr takes a look at the toys children played with, the food they ate...
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Apr.22.2010
From Publishers WeeklyWhen 28-year-old Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, his band of 50,000 soldiers and sailors was accompanied by 151 Parisian scientists and artists, who laid the groundwork for what became Egyptology. Ten of these remarkable men are the focus of Burleigh's narrative. Among them,...
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Apr.05.2009
The Virtual Mummy is a thoroughly readable introduction to the nondestructive techniques used by contemporary researchers to analyze the artifacts and culture of ancient Egypt. It tells the captivating story of the “virtual unwrapping” of an Egyptian mummy and the interdisciplinary project that...
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Jan.06.2009
From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its...
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