This volume in the award-winning Eyewitness series shows Egypt as it has never been shown before. Explore the pyramids with 3-D cutaways, choose what to eat from a visual menu, and plan your Nile cruise.
Roman emperors, Arab scholars, and early travellers were already drawn to and enchanted by the fascination of the land along the Nile. The pyramids of Giza, the temple-city of Karnak, or the Valley of the Kings with the grave of Tutankhamen even today maintain their extraordinary force of attraction.Across the centuries, the high culture of the ancient Egyptians has pertained its allure. This can certainly be attributed to their astounding architectural, artistic, and technological achievements...
Equilateral is a concise book motivated by an expansive idea: contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. It's the late nineteenth century, and British astronomer Sanford Thayer has won international funding for his scheme to excavate an equilateral triangle, three hundred miles to a side, from the remote wastes of Egypt's Western Desert. Nine hundred thousand Arab fellahin have been put to work on the project, even though they can't understand Thayer's obsessive purpose. They don't believe hi...
Osiris Or The Egyptian Religion Of Resurrection V2
by E. A. Wallis Budge
Like its companion volume The Fayoum- a practical guide, by Neil Hewison, this book was written for interested Egyptians and foreigners living in Cairo who enjoy day-trips at the weekend. A Guide to the Antiquities of the Fayyum deals specifically with the history and archaeology of the province, describing nineteen sites, their monuments and inscriptions, and the research work done on them. For each site a detailed itinerary from Cairo is given. Together, these two books form a unique quide to...
This title features: dynamic new two-colour layout for easy navigation; clear, newly designed two-colour maps throughout for increased ease of use; extensive listings of hotels and restaurants - all personally recommended for a really local flavour; and, top Don't Miss sights for each regional chapter, plus Author Choices of personal favourite places to stay and eat. You can discover three sides of ancient, modern, exciting Egypt: exuberant Cairo, with its Arabian Nights bazaars, Islamic monumen...
Egyptian Language Easy Lessons In Egyptian Hieroglyphics
by E. A. Wallis Budge
The House of the Hidden Places (The Esoteric Collection, #110)
by W Marsham Adams
Ancient Egypt (Children's Ancient History Books)
by Baby Professor
It was a blustery April morning on the Thames Embankment in London when Anne Mustoe set out on a phenomenal lone cycle ride - to the original site of Cleopatra's Needle at Heliopolis in Egypt. Leaving behind home comforts, she set herself the challenge of travelling close to water wherever possible - via the Seine and the Rhone, then alongside the Burgundy canal, the Po and the Venetian Lagoon. Before she would reach her final waterway - the evocative Nile - Ms Mustoe would encounter the dusty y...
The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources (Volume 1); In Two Volumes
by Sir Samuel White Baker
Egypt Moleskin (Lonely Planet Country Guides)
by Andrew Humphreys, Siona Jenkins, and Anthony Sattin