Egypt 1250 BC: A Traveler’s Companion

by Donald P. Ryan

Welcome to ancient Egypt in the reign of Ramesses the Great. Travel back to the land of the pharaohs at the time of its greatest glory. Sail up the Nile and visit the vibrant cosmopolitan cities of Memphis and Thebes. Enjoy the beer, lotus wine, and dancing girls at a formal banquet. Visit an embalmer's workshop, have your fortune told by a sacred bull, or witness the spectacular festivals at the temples of Karnak and Luxor. More reliable than Herodotus and more upbeat than the Book of the Dead, this is the essential guide for the discerning time-traveler.
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Strap on your sturdiest sandals and start planning your trip to Egypt in 1250 BC. You may have heard the rumors: the language is perplexing, there are no tourist facilities, and an aggressive, egocentric pharaoh rules the land. But Egypt will be a must-see vacation destination for millennia to come! So don’t delay—visit now, before the Roman tourist hordes arrive. Drawing on contemporary sources and years of experience excavating in Egypt, archaeologist Donald P. Ryan guides the time-traveling tourist on a journey up the Nile, taking in the sights of Memphis, the pyramids, Thebes, and beyond. En route he offers useful advice on everything from deciphering hieroglyphs to deciding which god to petition in the event of a scorpion sting. So leave the protective amulets at home and banish all fear of being sold as a galley slave. This imaginative guide is all you need to survive and enjoy your visit to Egypt in its glorious age of empire.

Genres: History

144 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Donald P. Ryan is an Egyptologist and archaeologist who has spent more than twenty years excavating in the Valley of the Kings.

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