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Queen - or, as she would prefer to be remembered king - Hatchepsut was an astonishing woman. Brilliantly defying tradition, she became the female embodiment of a male role, dressing in men's clothes and even wearing a false beard. Hatchepsut ruled over an age of peace, prosperity and remarkable architectural achievement, but after her death there was a serious attempt to obliterate her name from Egyptian history by vandalizing or destroying her monuments and portraits. Totally forgotten until Egyptologists deciphered hieroglyphs in the 1820s, she has since been subject to intense speculation about her actions and motivations. Combining archaeological and historical evidence from a wide range of sources, Joyce Tyldesley's dazzling piece of detection strips away the myths and misconceptions and finally restores the female pharaoh to her rightful place.
Some of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends
from Ancient Egypt are given a lively re-telling by Joyce
Tyldesley. These include stories about the gods, such as The
Creation of the World, Hathor and the Red Beer, and the myths about
Osiris, Isis and Horus. Fairy stories and incredible adventures are
represented by The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor, The Adventures
of Sinuhe and The Prince, the Dog, the Snake and the Crocodile,
while good and bad behaviour are to be found in Three Magical
Stories and The Story of Truth and Falsehood. King Ramesses II
himself tells us about The Battle of Kadesh. The book is
illustrated with imaginative and amusing line-drawings by Julian
Heath, and each of the stories has a question and answer section
for budding young Egyptologists. STORIES FROM ANCIENT EGYPT is
aimed at children between the ages of 7-11, but this book is an
entertaining and informative introduction to the literature of
Ancient Egypt for all ages. It is a new edition of a title
previously published by Rutherford Press
An archaeological survey in Middle Egypt. (BAR -S414, 1988)
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