Life in Ancient Egypt

by Adolf Erman, J. M. White, H. M. Tirard

Release Date: 01 June, 1971

Edition: Paperback

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this is a good book but is from 1971 and has 411 black and white illustrations. has 565 pages in small print.

Enduring Quality

Erman wrote this book at the end of the 19th century and it is a testament to his scholarship that the work is still as relevant today despite all our advances in archeology. The preface describes the inundation of Egypt as happening in the authors time exactly as it did for the ancient egyptians (the Aswan High Dam was not built until the 1950's). Erman concentrated on the simple aspecs of daily life as represented in paintings and statuary and he succeeds in presenting an accessible but thoroughly presented account of Egyptian daily life at all strata from Slave to Pharaoh.