Red Land, Black Land, Barbara Mertz
Red Land, Black Land, Barbara Mertz
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Red Land, Black Land
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

Author: Barbara Mertz

Narrator: Lorna Raver

Unabridged: 14 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/15/2008

Synopsis

Esteemed Egyptologist Barbara Mertz updates her widely praised social history of the people of ancient Egypt, which was originally published in 1968. Combining impeccable scholarship with a delightfully personal style, the author reconstructs the life of the Egyptians from birth to death, and beyond death, too. She also presents much fascinating detail on the building of the pyramids and the intricate art of mummification. Students and laymen alike will enjoy the wealth of authentic material on every aspect of Egyptian life that Mertz provides.

About Barbara Mertz

Barbara Mertz studied at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, receiving an M.A. in 1950 and a Ph.D. in Egyptology in 1952. A former president of the American Crime Writers League, she presently serves on the editorial advisory board of KMT, A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt and the board of governors of the American Research Center in Egypt, as well as the editorial board of The Writer. She is also a member of the Egypt Exploration Society, the James Henry Breasted Circle of the Oriental Institute, and the National Organization for Women. Under her own name she is the author of Red Land, Black Land, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. Under her pseudonym Barbara Michaels, she has written twenty-nine novels of suspense. As Elizabeth Peters, she has produced twenty-nine mystery-suspense novels, many of them set in Egypt and the Middle East. The Mystery Writers of America awarded Dr. Mertz the MWA Grandmaster in 1998.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lois

Continuing my recent Barbara Mertz explorations. I'd not read her nonfiction before. Excellent, mm, brief social history of life in ancient Egypt, starting at birth and ending with death, although the nature of the archeology makes it backloaded on the death end. Very nice change from the sorts of h......more

Goodreads review by Viktor

Това е по всяка вероятност идеалната книга да навлезете в материята за Древен Египет. Доказала се с времето и неостаряла (в тези пропорции на история, бавно се остарява). Към опитния научно-исторически глас, авторката прибавя приятен разказвачески стил. Това е формулата, която следва всички пишещи в......more

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