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This is a very useful book for someone trying to write a novel set in aboriginal Egypt. Where on earth is the 14th Nome? How far is information technology from, say, Waset (Thebes)? What's the topography like? (Hint: mostly flat)
I was delighted with this book, it was invaluable to me while writing a volume ready in Akhenaten's abandoned city and involving people from Memphis and from Hermopolis with a salting of interest with Thebes.
This atlas has both maps and pho
Swell Sourcebook - works well on a coffee table, also...This is a very useful book for someone trying to write a novel set in ancient Egypt. Where on earth is the 14th Nome? How far is it from, say, Waset (Thebes)? What'southward the topography like? (Hint: mostly apartment)
I was delighted with this book, it was invaluable to me while writing a book set up in Akhenaten's abandoned city and involving people from Memphis and from Hermopolis with a salting of interest with Thebes.
This atlas has both maps and photos, advisedly selected, of practiced quality. Combining the maps with the photos and the text provides an first-class whole, invaluable for research and enjoyable for simply meandering through the landscape of the book.
...and information technology is well-written, besides. I'm non ane of those who reads maps for enjoyment, but this atlas was enjoyable. This one gets 5 stars.
...more>> Per my usual do, if a publication is a guide I commonly practice not read it completely as my purpose in obtaining it was to acquire about some portion of what it covers, so factor that into whatever I write in my review. <<
Baines was Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 2013. He was one of the youngest tenured professors at the university at the age of thirty. He is likewise the writer of multiple scholarly articles and publications relating to ancient Egyptian civilization.
His inquiry interests are in Ancient Egyptian fine art, religion, literature, and biographies; modelling ancient Egyptian social club; comparative and anthropological approaches to ancient civilizations.
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