Life of the Ancient Egyptians Review

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(More customer reviews)A pleasure to look at, and a pleasure to read! The illustrations are superb. The text also is excellent. The author is not only an experienced archaeologist, but also an anthropologist, knowledgeable both in medicine and biology. Unlike many other handsome books on ancient Egypt, he does not stop at the impressive architectural remains, and the pictures and sculptures detected in the tombs, but uses them, together with additional material, to provide a vivid and fascinating insight into the lives and thoughts of the ordinary people, from 4000 BCE to Roman times.

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This lavishly illustrated book conveys the wonder of Ancient Egypt through the daily activities of its people-not the lives of Egypt's royalty or elite classes, but the typical men and women who composed this magnificent civilization.Exceptional for his range, the volume portrays Egyptian life from birth and childhood through education, love and marriage, occupations, war, and finally the soul's journey to the netherworld.A particular strength is the coverage of anatomical material and medical texts.Other topics include the role of women, fashion, dance and music, agriculture, crafts, and construction of the pyramids and tombs.This in-depth portrait draws on the complete spectrum of sources: artifacts from tombs and settlement sites; inscribed potsherds and ostraca as well as papyri; material from the excavation of homes, shrines, and tomb chapels; reliefs and wall-paintings.

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Nefertiti, Immortal Queen Review

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(More customer reviews)Nefertiti: Immortal Queen is form the POV of Thutmouse, the real life sculptor of the famous Nefertiti bust. The fictionalized story is about how Thutmose met and fell in love with Nefertiti, how he became a leading sculptor in the royal administration, and his enduring devotion to his Queen.
The plot is full of factual history woven through fictionalized lives. I rate this history very high. The literary style fits the author, Cheryl Fluty. Her profile states that she was a high tech advice columnist.
I find that the outstanding feature of the story is how the author wove religious facts with historical characters and political tensions. And one of the key threads weaves around Nefertiti's paternal grandfather and Akhenaten's maternal grandfather - they had a common grandfather - Yuya! The author shows Yuya to be the Hebrew Joseph, thus relating the story to the Israelites concept of one God. This concept of one God was embraced by Nefertiti and Akhenaten, and this concept fanned flames of hatred against the royal couple.
See Ahmed Osman's book "Stranger in the Valley of the Kings" for more on Yuya being the Hebrew Joseph.

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Her husband left her his throne and his One God. Her enemies murdered her and tried to wipe her out of history. But thanks to the talent and devotion of a brilliantly gifted artist, today her face is an icon of beauty, familiar to millions of people around the world.But it almost wasn't so. This is the story of the beautiful Queen Nefertiti; her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten, history's first monotheist; and Thutmose, the gifted artist who was torn between his love for the beautiful queen and loyalty to his friend and patron, Akhenaten.

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City of Dreams (Huy The Scribe) Review

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(More customer reviews)Huy had been a scribe during Akhenaten's reign. He survived the bitter return to the old ways, gods & a new pharoah's reign under the yoke of rivals Horemheb & Ay, but at the cost of his profession. Unable to live by previous means he is 'unofficially' asked by a Medjay policeman to assist in solving the mysterious deaths of young beautiful girls.
The deaths are due to unknown cause & pressure mounts to find the guilty party(ies) quickly. Huy uses keen observation, commonsense, contacts and instinct to probe the frightening murders.
The author sets the mood & period very capably. Dialogue & descriptions are very readable & are void of distracting 'modernisms' & comparisons.
While not a 'classic', it is a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon distraction & a pleasure to read.

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City of the Horizon (Huy The Scribe) Review

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(More customer reviews)"City of the Horizon" is the first in a three-book series by Anton Gill. For Ancient Egyptologist whodunit fans, Gill's Huy the Scribe mysteries are first rate. Set in the immediate aftermath of Akhenaten the Heretic's death at the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty, when the whole civilized world seems to be crumbling at the speed of light, "City of the Horizon" introduces us to an out-of-work scribe named Huy, discredited due to his allegiance to Akhenaten.
Down on his luck and with few choices (none of them admirable), a dispirited Huy is literally plucked off the banks of the Nile by a school mate friend Amotju, who has a problem. Knowing Huy's traits from childhood, Amotju convinces the despairing Huy to help him: it's the ages-old story of jealousy and romance. Amotju is an incredibly wealthy man who has some of the eyes and ears of the power structure of the time.
Still, the story goes much deeper as soon Huy finds himself in that tangled web we weave Sir Walter Scott so clearly wrote about: a murder here, a robbery there, thefts, political and religious intrigues,the secret police, and more murders, just as the new boy pharoah Tutankhamun comes into power. Amotju seems to be a saving grace for Huy, who literally seems to be brought back to life with these opportunities to help his love-stricken friend.
It is no surprise that Gill creates a well-written, well-thought out storyline and he especially triumphs with the character of Huy. The author's penchant for landscape and atmosphere seems to capture the time and place, at least as perhaps lay readers of the period might imagine them. His plot development moves repidly and surely to a convincing climax and ending. Readers will readily want to move on to the next episode, "City of Dreams" and then the last "City of the Dead." All are excellent reads.


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Palace intrigues, the deaths of one-time royal favorites...it may sound like Tudor England, but it's Egypt during the 18th Dynasty, about 1350 B.C.Akhenaten, the "reformist" pharaoh, has died, and his successor, the child pharaoh Tutankhamun, is effectively controlled by political schemers with no love for Akhenaten's old supporters, now deemed heretics.Many of these have lost their lives, but Huy, once a scribe in Akhnaten's court, is luckier: He's lost merely his home and the right to practice his trade.In desperation, Huy becomes a sort of traveling troubleshooter, the world's first private eye. City of the Horizon marks his first case, bringing him up against both Egypt's powerful priesthood and a brutal gang of tomb-robbers, all while he's trying to evade the clutches of the secret police. The modern world, it seems, has no monopoly on duplicity and corruption.First U.S. publication

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