The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt » (Reissue)

For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was a great civilization that thrived along the banks of the Nile River. But when its cities crumbled to dust, Egypt’s culture and the secrets of its hieroglyphic writings were also lost. The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt explains how archaeologists have pieced together their discoveries to slowly reveal the history of Egypt’s people, its pharaohs, and its golden days.

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"At a time when the ancestors of Western man still lived as semi-savages in the dense forests of England and Europe, a great civilization...existed along the banks of the River Nile." Payne's book chronicles this civilization, with a special focus on the monarchs whose power lay at its heart, and the archeological research that helped reveal their story. Champollion's decoding of the Rosetta Stone is here. So are narratives about the rise and fall of individual pharaohs, and of the dynasties. Some thirty years after its first publication, the message Payne leaves us here is still valid-after all, they're still finding treasures buried beneath Egypt's hot sands, and we're still learning about that ancient civilization.