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		<title>Egyptology Intro: $5.84</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This slim volume is not actually an introduction to ancient Egypt but an introduction to the discipline of Egyptology. How to Egyptologists examine evidence in source materials and come up with conclusions about this endlessly fascinating ancient civilization? &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Oxford History: $9.99</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt from the stone age to the Roman conquest. The story of the ancient Egyptians, from their prehistoric origins to their conquest by the Persians, Greeks, and Romans makes for fascinating reading, with subjects ranging from the changing nature of life and death in the Nile valley to some of the earliest masterpieces of art, architecture, and literature in the ancient world.An international team of experts in the field address the issues surrounding this distinctive culture, vividly relating the rise and fall of ruling dynasties, exploring colourful personalities, and uncovering surprising facts, such as the revelation that Scotland Yard possesses a print taken from the hand of a mummy. A well-rounded picture of an intriguing civilization emerges.]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Downton Abbey</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It&#8217;s likely that most Egyptophiles know, if they&#8217;re at all interested in the lovely Edwardian soap-opera, Downton Abbey, that the series is shot in part at Highclere Castle. Highclere is the hereditary estate of the Earl of Carnarvon. In the period covered by Downton Abbey, Highclere was home to the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert. He was famously the Earl whom worked with Howard Carter in Egypt and discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. Carter and Carnarvon worked together for many years. I plan to publish their first book, written after only five years&#8217; work together and long before Tut&#8217;s tomb was found. Carter was a frequent visitor at Highclere Castle. It was there, in the fall of 1922, that Carnarvon told Carter that he no longer wished to fund excavations in the Valley of the Kings, as they&#8217;d made no spectacular finds there. Perhaps, he surmised, Theodore Davis was correct when he opined that the the Valley was all dug out. Carter begged for another season, offering to pay expenses himself, with all finds distributed under Carnarvon&#8217;s concession with the Egyptian government. Carnarvon relented, offered to pay one more season of digging, and sent Carter back to Egypt and into the history books. Four days after starting to dig, Carter discovered Tutankhamun. During these Edwardian-period years, Highclere had undergone many of the changes we see at Downton. The series creator, Julian Fellowes, is a longtime friend of the Carnarvon family and had Highclere in mind when he set out to write Downton Abbey. Carter and Carnarvon did not dig during the first World War. Downton Abbey gives us a peek into the stresses and strains of that period and the beginnings of the dramatic changes to the world of privilege represented by Edwardian wealth and power. Carnarvon&#8217;s wonderful collection of Egyptian antiquities was uncatalogued by Howard Carter and sold by Lady Almina Carnarvon to the Metropolitan Museum after her husband&#8217;s death. Some pieces remained and were rediscovered in cupboards by the family in 1987. With other pieces loaned back to Highclere by museums, the family now has a fine display of Egyptian pieces that the public can visit. Whether your interest is in ancient Egypt, in Downton Abbey, or in both (like me), Highclere should be on your list of places to visit if you make it to England. In the meantime, visit the Highclere Castle website to read more about both.]]></description>
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		<title>The Cult of Physical Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a religion or a cult. I can no longer count the number of bibliophiles whom I&#8217;ve heard rapturously proclaim their love of physical books. To proclaim otherwise is a proclamation of support for the demise of all that is sacred and dear. I used to be one of them. I quoted the standard from scripture: &#8220;I just love the feel of a real book. I like how it feels in my hands.&#8221; Really? Not any more. Especially really big books. I look at a really big book and think, &#8220;How am I going to hold that and be comfortable? How many of those can I get in my carryon?&#8221; A losing battle It&#8217;s not a question of IF you&#8217;ll start using an e-reader but when. I am sorry for this. I know it is disturbing for some. But once you cross the divide, I promise you&#8217;ll not only never look back, you&#8217;ll wonder why we didn&#8217;t all do this sooner. I found these quotes from Daniel Reetz to be spot on: &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty straightforward &#8211; it&#8217;s tough to read a physical book on my phone, really hard to update one with new information, really hard to cross-reference them with other texts, it&#8217;s impossible for blind people to access most of them, many of them continuously self destruct because of the paper they are printed on, some are in constant danger because of the ideas contained in their pages, I can&#8217;t share them without depriving myself of access, and backing them up is a lot of work.&#8221; And: &#8220;If you ask me, physical books are going to follow a path similar to vinyl. They always have and always will contain information we care about and want access to. And their medium has special, wonderful properties that make them lovable and not easily discarded, unlike, say, 8-track. So they&#8217;ll be around for a long while, but increasingly their maintenance will become more and more costly.&#8221; That rare feel I have rare, physical books on my shelf. Some of them are over 100 years old and are disintegrating. It would be very costly to have them restored. Most of the books that get printed every year end up in a recycle bin&#8211;unsold. That&#8217;s a lot of trees and a lot of waste. I am now a heretic in the despite of the beauty of physical books. I&#8217;ve come to believe there is nothing inherently special about a paper book and it&#8217;s not because I&#8217;m in the eBook biz. I still have a physical library of some 300-400 books. Aside from the challenges that Reetz mentions above with paper books, eBooks offer many more advantages than he lists. Mo, mo bettah You cannot carry the entire physically-printed works of the Bard around with you everywhere you go. Nor can you search for a beloved quote in a physical book without a lot of work. You might say that this is one of the joys of a physical book; the time spent poring over it, slowing life down. But is it really? Content is what makes books great (well, that and literacy). When I&#8217;m deeply immersed in an eBook, I forget about how it&#8217;s being delivered to me. Aside from the fact that my hand and arm are not getting cramped and tired, I&#8217;m still reading a book. There was a quote floating around on Facebook the other day that went, &#8220;There will always be a need for real books.&#8221; Well, what is a book? Is it really dead trees bound with dead cows using dead rabbits? No, books are the manifestations of ideas. eBooks ARE real books. I celebrate the fact that I carry a library with me every time I leave the house. Every bibliophile who hears me say I read on my Android says, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it too small!&#8221; NO! It&#8217;s great. Only one page displays at a time, it fits in my hand, I can scan the pages faster, and it goes everywhere. I&#8217;ve always had three to six books on my reading stack at a time. Now it&#8217;s much easier to keep them all with me and switch between them. If I&#8217;m just not in the mood to dive into Lincoln, I can flip over to a novel. So dread not the passing. Dread not the inevitable. Embrace the advantages of the newly arrived future and read, read, read. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Egypt &amp; Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any period of ancient life provides ripe pickings for fiction. Since fiction revolves around the creation of worlds that usually little resemble actuality, history is a great trough of the unformed from which a writer may ladle out anything his or her imagination is willing to spill on the page. The genre of historical fiction is very popular. Some of it is very good and based on meticulous research. Some of it is just silly and cleaves to real history about as much as the opera Aida does. In fact, historical opera of the 19th century merely used the ancient past as a romantic setting. The issues in the stories were 19th-century issues. Historical fiction is popular because we romanticize the past. There is much that is so alluring about lives lived before ours. We forget that life before the industrial age was full of hardship, high infant mortality, famine, and short life spans for adults. The average life span of an ancient Egyptian was 35-40 years. You would have been middle-aged by 15. So it is with much of the novels about ancient Egypt. Those of us who have made a scholarly study of Egypt for many years know that there are things we can know about ancient lives and things we will never know. Just as a future novelist will have to infer much of what we think and feel about our current age (public revelation being what it is notwithstanding), current novelists must infer the lives of the ancients. What we can know are the ways in which certain aspects of Egyptian culture and society functioned 2,000-4,000 years ago. Edfu temple, for example, is an open book about ritual, offerings, land ownership, titles, and various other aspects of Ptolemaic Egypt. But we don&#8217;t know how the people living around and working in that temple felt about religion or the royal house. And in the end, it&#8217;s story that we want. It&#8217;s story that we use to explain life to ourselves. So fiction must be about the lives of people, not about the facts of a battle or a temple. If you search Amazon for &#8220;ancient Egypt in Kindle,&#8221; you&#8217;ll find that public domain books and novels top the list. Amazon ranks books by sales numbers, so clearly novels largely outrank nonfiction books about ancient Egypt, at least in the Kindle section. In the paper books, many of the books at the top are coffee-table books with lots of pretty pictures. Which is all to say that while there seems to be a good market for books about Egypt, many that are popular are of the fanciful kind. But was there ever an ancient civilization more open to the imagination than Egypt?]]></description>
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		<title>A Thousand Miles Only $5.99</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without a doubt, one of the loveliest and most fascinating accounts of travel on the Nile, Amelia Edwards&#8217; classic has held up extremely well for over a century and a quarter. No serious or casual student of Egyptology, Victorian travel, or travel writing should be without this book on their shelf. Amelia Edwards was already a well-known, successful writer before she ended up on holiday in Egypt. She tells us she arrived there simply to get out of the weather in Europe. She spent the next four months traveling to the second cataract of the Nile on a dahabiya with a few friends. Along the way, her prodigious knowledge of Egyptian history and her keen study of the monuments provide a background and context to her voyage. But her sensitive and even romantic descriptions of the people, places, and atmosphere of 1870s Egypt are what captivate the reader. She writes with great beauty and humor. Having been to Egypt many times myself, I&#8217;m astonished at how much Edwards did and saw in four months. There was hardly a major monument she did not visit, several that I&#8217;ve never seen. Born in 1831 and largely educated by her mother, Edwards clearly showed talent and ambition from a young age. She studied music and art with passion but it was as a writer that she found her independence and good fortune. Having written several popular novels and a book on hiking in the Dolomites, she arrived in Egypt on the cusp of a major life change. She fell in love with Egypt and deplored the despoilation of the monuments. In Egypt, she discovered the abiding mission of the rest of her life&#8211;saving Egypt&#8217;s heritage. She spent two years upon her return researching and writing A Thousand Miles Up the Nile. In a day before easy Internet access to information, she wrote to scholars, rifled through libraries, and visited museums in search of supporting facts for her book. Along the way she became an extremely well-informed amateur Egyptologist. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile was a bestseller. Edwards became the driving force in establishing the Egypt Exploration Fund, which is today&#8217;s Egypt Exploration Society. She supported the work of William Flinders Petrie, then a young archaeologist and today considered the father of modern archaeology. She made a successful lecture tour of America in 1889-1890. The work of the EEF consumed her with fundraising and lecturing to the eventual detriment of her finances and health. She died on April 15, 1892 of complications of influenza. Her health had been weakened by travel and by surgery to treat breast cancer. She was buried in Henbury churchyard with an obelisk for a headstone and an Egyptian ankh over her grave. In the 20th century, she became the model for the very popular Amelia Peabody series in fiction. Egypt and Egyptology owe her a great debt. Product Details File Size: 6939 KB Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited Publisher: Ancient Egypt eBooks (February 6, 2013) Language: English ISBN: 978-1-939331-08-3    ]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Egypt: $14.99</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 03:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Romer has always been an enthusiastic, amusing, and engaging writer and TV personality. He has worked in Egypt since 1966 on archaeological digs in many key sites, including the Valley of the King and Karnak. He led the Brooklyn Museum expedition to excavate the tomb of Ramasses XI. He wrote and presented a number of television series, including The Seven Wonders of the World, Romer&#8217;s Egypt, Ancient Lives, and Testament. Now he&#8217;s written a comprehensive history of ancient Egypt and it&#8217;s available for Kindle. This is the first of two volumes. (For some reason, Barnes and Noble has only the hardcover version of the book.) Witty and thoroughly engrossed in his subject, Romer entertains as well as educates. This book is ambitious. He begins well before the Dynastic period, with the earliest inhabitants of the Nile Valley. From there, he takes us only to the 4th Dynasty reign of Khufu, the builder of the Great Pyramid. This is a huge scale of time and one that most scholarly treatments don&#8217;t bother with, as many assume that the pharaonic period is the only interesting part of ancient Egyptian history. But for those of us endlessly fascinated by ancient Egypt, the period leading up to the fabulous power and wealth of Egypt&#8217;s pharaohs is critical. Otherwise, how do we know how they got there? I&#8217;d recommend Romer to anyone interested in ancient Egypt. I&#8217;ll be featuring his other books on this site as well. &#8220;Scholarly, passionate, and exquisitely written . . . it is remarkable how this book gives us almost nothing of the ancient Egypt we think we know . . . [Romer writes] with all the care and exactitude of a pharanoic engineer with a plumb line . . . a stunning, clear-sighted history of ancient Egypt.&#8221; —The Sunday Times (UK) &#8220;After a long wait, we have an up-to-date, stimulating account of the birth of what may turn out to be the world&#8217;s oldest civilization.&#8221; —Nature (UK) &#8220;His physical descriptions are superb . . . A book to be read and thought about.&#8221; —Financial Times (UK) &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Complete Pyramids: $17.70</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The picture of Dr. Mark Lehner above is not posed. I took that photo at Giza in 2009. Mark was standing near the ruins of Menkaure&#8217;s Valley Temple, drawing recently excavated features to scale. He likes doing this. It keeps his hand in the actual archaeology, even though he directs one of the largest, multi-disciplinary teams in Egypt. I&#8217;ve had the great fortune, while working with this team, to walk around the Giza Plateau with Mark. His knowledge and understanding of the monuments at Giza are encyclopedic. It&#8217;s rather astonishing to listen to him describe some feature of the ancient mortuary landscape and then blithely quote an article written by Reisner or another long-dead archaeologist. The Complete Pyramids is a great addition to any Egyptophile&#8217;s bookshelf. If you really want to understand the 4th Dynasty monuments in this vast cemetery and those elsewhere in Egypt, there is no other reference book as comprehensive. While written for a popular audience, it has a huge collection of details about the pyramids and other funerary monuments. If you haven&#8217;t read this book before, there are buttons below that link to Amazon and Barnes &#38; Noble where you can purchase it. Mark Lehner&#8217;s own website, which I helped create, is at http://www.aeraweb.org. You&#8217;ll find a lot of information about recent activity by the AERA team in Egypt, as well as a blog. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Victorian Women in Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great fascinations about the Victorian age is how un-Victorian most people really were. This is readily apparent in some of the writing by Victorian women who traveled in Egypt. Among these are Harriet Martineau, Lady Lucie Duff Gordon, Florence Nightingale, Amelia B. Edwards, and Ellen Chennells. Lucie Duff Gordon, having lived among the poor Egyptians of Upper Egypt, learned Arabic, and lived her last years on the Nile, was the most sympathetic. She understood nuanced differences between cultures and felt that there was no difference between human beings except for education. She had a remarkably enlightened view for her time. Florence Nightingale, on the other hand, made one trip up the Nile and wrote in letters that Egypt would be wonderful&#8230;if it weren&#8217;t for the Egyptians. We know quite a lot about most of these women except Ellen Chennells, who wrote Recollections of an Egyptian Princess by Her English Governess. Chennells traveled to Egypt in late mid-life. She was already a seasoned traveler and ex-pat, but it&#8217;s astonishing for us to imagine a Victorian woman in her fifties taking on the assignment as governess to a princess in a country she had never before visited and where she knew no one. She took to her new life quickly and wrote a very detailed account of her five years&#8217; residence with the Egyptian royal family. She bonded deeply with her young charge and wrote about Princess Zeyneb with great affection. From lavish balls, national festivals, trips to the Pyramids, sailing on the Nile, and summering in Constantinople, Chennells observes and records every event with the eye of an ethnographer. Her writing is appealing because she cares about her subjects and is clearly enthralled by the world in which she finds herself. Margaret Harvey has done a nice biographical sketch of Chennells on the Guild of Hypatia website. I&#8217;ll direct you there for the details that are known (which are scant). Another characteristic of the best of the Victorian writers on Egypt share is humor (Emmaline Lott excepted). Chennells wry sense of humor stays with her throughout her account and does not spare herself on that account. There are passages in her book that made me laugh out loud, which is not easy to do on the page across a century and a half. Her book is now available for Kindle and Nook and both Amazon and Barnes and Noble provide free excerpts.]]></description>
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		<title>Recollections Only $5.99</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would it be like to leave kith and kin in mid-life and travel to an exotic land to live in a palace? In 1872, Ellen Chennells accepted a position with the Egyptian royal house as governess to the beloved 12-year-old daughter of Khedive Ismail. She remained for five years and has left us one of the most lively and engaging accounts of Victorian Egypt that anyone ever wrote. With her voracious curiosity about all things and her keen powers of observation, Chennells describes a world that today is lost. It was a world of unbelievable opulence and extravagance where diamonds were worn by slaves and gold coins were tossed by the hands full to wedding guests. In the midst of this life of palaces and yachts on the Nile, Chennells becomes deeply attached to her sweet and gentle charge: Princess Zeyneb. She laughs with delight at harem antics, explains many of the difficulties of being a foreigner in the royal court, and mourns the eventual seclusion of Zeyneb as an adolescent bride. Then she watches with admiration as Zeyneb rises to a challenge beyond her years. This affectionate and true story, full of dry British wit and fantastic detail, will capture your heart and imagination. Product Details File Size: 1731 KB Print Length: 404 pages Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited Publisher: Ancient Egypt eBooks (January 7, 2013) Language: English ISBN: 978-1-939331-07-6]]></description>
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