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Language
English
Description
The mystery of King Tut's death in Ancient Egypt has haunted the world for centuries. Discover the ultimate true crime story of passion and betrayal, where the clues point to murder.
Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace's veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among the Boy King's most trusted advisors, and after only nine...
Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace's veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among the Boy King's most trusted advisors, and after only nine...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A picture book biography of Hatshepsut, a queen in ancient Egypt who declared herself king and ruled as such for more than twenty years.
Author
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Inside New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the sphinx of the Pharaoh Hatshepsut holds court. But how did this ancient artifact get to the museum?
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles King Tut's life and discusses the fascination with and mystery surrounding his death, the search for his tomb and its treasures, and the illnesses of archaeologists who have explored Egyptian tombs.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power. What was so special about ancient Egypt that provided women this kind of access to the highest political office? What was it about these women that allowed them to transcend patriarchal obstacles? What did Egypt gain from its liberal reliance on female leadership, and could today's world learn from its example?"-- Provided by publisher....
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of Thutmose I, a powerful Egyptian pharaoh, Hatshepsut was not destined to take the throne because of her gender. When the death of her father and his successor left Egypt without a pharaoh, she stepped into a powerful position unlike any woman before her. Despite an attempt to remove Hatshepsut from history, her legacy remains as Egypt's first female pharaoh.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans, maps on endpapers, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the longest-reigning woman pharaoh in Ancient Egypt draws on surviving artifacts to consider her unprecedented rise, her achievements and why most of her monuments were destroyed after her death.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
5 CDs (approximately 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Novelist James Patterson teams up with non-fiction writer Martin Dugard to uncover the mystery shrouding the death of Tutankhamun, commonly known as King Tut. Ever since Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922, many scholars have speculated on the boy king's fate. Patterson and Dugard utilize modern technology, including X-rays and other forensic data, in an attempt to solve a 3,000-year-old mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The ancient site of Tell el-Amarna in Middle Egypt was the capital city of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten and his chief consort, Nefertiti. Occupied for just sixteen or so years in the fourteenth century BC, the city lay largely abandoned and forgotten until excavations over the last hundred years brought it back into prominence. Based on more than three decades of research and excavation by Barry Kemp, this account provides new insight into Amarna...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
399 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Written in the tradition of historians like Stacy Schiff and Amanda Foreman who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the country's 3,000-year empire and its meaning today. In a new era when democracies around the world are threatened or crumbling, best-selling author Kara Cooney turns to five ancient Egyptian pharaohs...
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