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A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid by John Romer
Category: History
This extraordinary book draws on a lifetime of research and thought to recreate the previously untold story of how a civilization which began with handfuls of semi-itinerant fishermen settled, spread and created a rich, vivid, strange civilization that had its first culmination in the pharaoh Khufu buil ...Show more
A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid by John ROMER
Category: Non Fiction | Series: History of Ancient Egypt 1
The ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers to the construction of the pyramids. Famed archaeologist John Romer draws on a lifetime of research to tell one history's greatest stories; how, over more than a thousand years, a ...Show more
A History of Ancient Egypt (Vol 2) From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom by John Romer
Category: History | Series: A\History of Ancient Egypt Ser.
"Another solid work of history from an author and historian who truly grasps the mysteries of ancient Egypt." - Kirkus Reviews Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a ...Show more
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 1: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid by John Romer
Category: History
The extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest monument - from specialist John Romer. This exceptional book draws on a lifetime of research and thought to recreate the previously untold story of how a civilization which began with h ...Show more
A History of Ancient Egypt: Volume 2: From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom by John Romer
Category: Popular History
This definitive, multi-volume history of the world's first known state reveals that much of what we have been taught about Ancient Egypt is the product of narrow-minded visions of the past Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Grea ...Show more
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 2: From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom by John Romer
Category: History
This definitive, multi-volume history of the world's first known state reveals that much of what we have been taught about Ancient Egypt is the product of narrow-minded visions of the pastDrawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great ...Show more
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3: From the Shepherd Kings to the End of the Theban Monarchy by John Romer
Category: History
The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known stateArchaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient Egypt, and here he tells the epic story of an era dominated by titans of the popular imagination- the radical iconoclast Akhenaten, t ...Show more
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3 - From the Shepherd Kings to the End of the Theban Monarchy by John Romer
Category: History
Archaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient Egypt, and here he tells the epic story of an era dominated by titans of the popular imagination- the radical iconoclast Akhenaten, the boy-king Tutankhamun and the all-conquering Ramesses II. But 'heroes' do not forge hist ...Show more
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (PB) by John Romer & Sir E. A. Wallis Budge
Category: History
"The Book of the Dead" is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. Consisting of spells, prayers and incantations, each section contains the words of power to overcome obstacles in the afterlife. The papyruses were often le ...Show more
The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited by John Romer
Category: Fiction
The Great Pyramid's eerily precise architecture has for centuries both astounded and puzzled archaeologists and has given rise to numerous modern fantasies concerning the so-called 'Mystery of the Pyramids'. Sweeping away centuries of myth and confusion, John Romer describes for the first time exactly h ...Show more
Yves Bonnefoy Poems by Yves Bonnefoy; John Naughton (Translator); Stephen Romer (Editor); Anthony Rudolf (Translator)
Category: Poetry
France's greatest poet of the last half century, Yves Bonnefoy wrote many books of poetry and poetic prose, as well as celebrated critical essays on literature and art (to which a second volume will be devoted). At his death in 2016 aged ninety-three, he was Emeritus Professor of Comparative Poetics at ...Show more
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