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EGYPT PEOPLE - GODS - PHARAOHS

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition!

What do we really know about our ancestors? Not about the rulers and generals, but about laborers, farmers, soldiers and families. Egypt is a perfect case in point, almost a blank slate for most of us as it regards details of their everyday life. This useful and informative book attempts to set the record straight by offering a distinctive take on that most mythologized of epochs. Who would have guessed, for example, that the first strike in recorded history took place in 1152 BC during work on the necropolis in the Valley of the Kings, a protest by construction workers against delayed deliveries of oil and flour? Two fairly banal commodities maybe, but essential: oil protected the skin against the savage desert climate, whilst flour was the base ingredient for thirty different kinds of nutritional cake.

It is this detailed examination of the evidence that distinguishes this volume, with chapters on everything from relationships to leisure activities, the role of women to the manufacture of mummies. And just like the mummies, "fragile as eggshell but solid as a statue" and magically able to transcend death, both people and country are brought alive for us again.

About the author:
Rose-Marie Hagen was born in Switzerland and studied History and Literature in Lausanne. Rainer Hagen studied Literature and Theater Science in Munich. Together, the two authors have produced 15 television films in the series “History in Pictures” and have published over 140 sequels to the series “Examining Paintings” in the arts magazine art, a selection of which makes up the contents of this publication.
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Emne Egyptisk kunst
Kunstner Diverse
Forfatter Rose-Marie & Rainer Hagen
Sprog Engelsk
Illustrationer Gennemill i farver
Format / Sideantal 30 x 24 cm / 240 sider
Udgivelsesår 2008
Indbinding Indbundet
Forlag Taschen
Antikvarisk
Antal
Køb
ISBN 9783822847671
Lev. 3-5 dage

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition!

What do we really know about our ancestors? Not about the rulers and generals, but about laborers, farmers, soldiers and families. Egypt is a perfect case in point, almost a blank slate for most of us as it regards details of their everyday life. This useful and informative book attempts to set the record straight by offering a distinctive take on that most mythologized of epochs. Who would have guessed, for example, that the first strike in recorded history took place in 1152 BC during work on the necropolis in the Valley of the Kings, a protest by construction workers against delayed deliveries of oil and flour? Two fairly banal commodities maybe, but essential: oil protected the skin against the savage desert climate, whilst flour was the base ingredient for thirty different kinds of nutritional cake.

It is this detailed examination of the evidence that distinguishes this volume, with chapters on everything from relationships to leisure activities, the role of women to the manufacture of mummies. And just like the mummies, "fragile as eggshell but solid as a statue" and magically able to transcend death, both people and country are brought alive for us again.

About the author:
Rose-Marie Hagen was born in Switzerland and studied History and Literature in Lausanne. Rainer Hagen studied Literature and Theater Science in Munich. Together, the two authors have produced 15 television films in the series “History in Pictures” and have published over 140 sequels to the series “Examining Paintings” in the arts magazine art, a selection of which makes up the contents of this publication.