Sedmdesát záhad starověkého Egypta

by Bill Manley, Petra Vlčková (Translator), Jana Mynářová (Translator)

Egyptologové dodnes vykopávají nepředstavitelné záhady. Najdete zde všechny slavné historické postavy a lokality starověkého Egypta i méně známé, ale neméně přitažlivé postavy vynořující se z přítmí. Text knihy je doprovázen působivými fotografiemi a názornými grafy, mapami a plány.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Egypt, Reference, Egyptology, Ancient History, Historical

304 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Bill Manley is Honorary President of Egyptology Scotland. He was appointed Research Associate at the National Museum in Edinburgh in 1995, and Senior Curator of Egyptian Scripts in 2006. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Liverpool, at which he has taught Egyptology. He spent many years shaping and developing the Egyptology program offered by DACE at the University of Glasgow. Bill has been involved with archaeological work in Palestine and Egypt, most recently at Mo’alla, and his publications include three best-selling books, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt (1996), How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs (1998, with Mark Collier) and The Seventy Great Mysteries of Ancient Egypt (2003).



http://www.egyptologyscotland.com/EgS...

Reviews

[Ingrida Lisauskiene · Rating 5 out of 5]

Egipto istorija, jos grožis ir mistika turbūt nepalieka nei vieno abejingo. Mano pažįstamų ir artimųjų rate kiekvienas yra išgyvenęs egiptologijos epizodą. Panašu, kad aš jį išgyvenu dabat, tačiau norisi iš paviršinių "turistinių žinių" nutolti ir pasikapstyti giliau. Tam labai tiko 17 žymių egiptologų knygoje surašytos įžvalgos ir tyrimų rezultatai. Ir tai knyga ne tik apie faraonų mumijas

[Isidore · Rating 4 out of 5]

Despite the sensational title this is a collection of unsensational articles about real problems in our understanding of Egyptian history, written by competent scholars. Although intended for the general public, it does not pander, with the exception of a few dubious articles near the end which reflect greater confidence in the historical value of the Bible than most mainstream historians would entertain. As always with Thames & Hudson, the illustrations are lavish and well-chosen.

[Kálmán Kéménczy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I started reading the book because I was playing with Assasin's Creed: Origins.
The historical background and mythology of the whole world began to (re)interest. I finished it within two days.
This book is highly edited and contains many exciting facts and stories. However, I missed the entire mythological background. It was probably not the purpose of the book, but I would have liked to have managed this topic comprehensively.
Anyway, I highly recommend it to everyone.

[Yassemin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would round this up to a 3.5 ideally.

I've had a long standing interest in Egyptian History but never taken the time to sit down and read a book on the subject, surprisingly!

This was a fairly good and thorough account of a wide variety of subjects appertaining to the various Egyptian Dynasties- beginning to end which is supported by incredible photography and images which I thoroughly enjoyed looking at. A beautiful book sure but a bit misleading from the title.

I appreciate there is a lot we still don't know about the Egyptians, archaeological digs are carried out to this day for that very reason but I wouldn't describe the majority of subjects covered in this book as 'mysteries '. Most areas such as Religion, Politics and Writing are explained and detailed so not really a mystery at all. The title is misleading for sure.

Some chapters were completely enthralling, I particularly enjoyed those on the religion\ Egyptian God and belief system along with mythology as sorts but that was balanced out by the less interesting and more mundane job mysterious subjects such as the interaction between other countries for example which I found quite boring, and didn't hold my interest if I'm honest but that's probably personal prference.

Overall, wasn't what I was expecting based on the title but a beautiful and fairly interesting, detailed book on the Egyptian period. I recommend.

[cia sunshine ☭ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty decent information. Very interesting. Some of the book was lacking soul.

I understand that this is an informational text, but I know that it is possible for something informative to have soul. This read like a textbook.

[Lady Larenna]

Hi everyone!

Could you help me, how can I read this book on this site?
I pressed the button "I want to read", but nothing happenned, unfortunately.
Thank you!

[for-much-deliberation ...]

...Egypt and its many mysteries always makes quite good reading. Interesting volume, hope to read soon...

[Charlotte]

This isn't actually what my hardcover copy looks like. . .oh well.