Living in ancient Egypt
By: Don Nardo, book editor.
Contributors: Nardo, Don, 1947-
Series: Exploring cultural history
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Egypt -- Social life and customs -- To 332 B.C
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-153) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction: Ancient Egyptians at work and play; title: People and private life: Chapter preface; title: Family and home life / Charles Freeman; title: Lives and rights of Egyptian women / Erika Feucht; title: Love songs from the new kingdom / Anonymous; title: Food and drink / James R. Romano; title: Sports, games, and other leisure activities / Jill Kamil; title: Everyday rules of polite conduct / Ptahhotpe, a royal vizier; title: Special skills essential to society: Chapter preface; title: Doctors and their cures / Adolf Erman; title: Case studies of an Egyptian doctor / Anonymous; title: Types and duties of Egyptian priests / Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson; title: Egyptian metalsmiths and their wares / Lionel Casson; title: Literacy and education dominated by scribes / H.W.F. Saggs; title: Schoolbook for scribes / Nebmare-nakht the scribe; title: Preparation for the afterlife: Chapter preface; title: Religious festivals: Celebrations of life and death / Lynn Meskell; title: Hymn to Aten / Akhenaten; title: Visitor to Egypt tells how bodies were embalmed / Herodotus; title: Dead Pharaoh's journey into the sky-from the Pyramid texts; title: Mummifying pets and other animals / Bob Brier; title: Secrets of the royal tombs: Chapter preface; title: Great pyramid tombs / Desmond Stewart; title: Exploring the passageways within the great pyramid / I.E.S. Edwards; title: Lost city of the pyramid workers / Jack McClintock; title: Opening King Tut's tomb / Steven Snape; title: Chronology; title: For further research; title: Index; title: About the editor.