num_pages: 256
description: One of the best-known historians working today and a world-renowned expert on the ancient world presents a brilliant account of the lives of the stonemasons scribes and painters who created some of Egypt's finest treasures. Illustrated with both color photos and black-and-white drawings this groundbreaking study goes back more than 3000 years to a village where the workers who created the tombs of the Pharaohs and the Valley of the Kings resided. John Romer is an archeologist with a genius for raising the busy ghosts of ancient Egypt.-- Sunday Times
language: English
title: Ancient Lives: The Story of the Pharaohs' Tombmakers
publisher: Phoenix