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Review: Of all the books (mostly parts of) that I have read on Egypt, this was the best. Good pictures and illustrations, just the right balance in the writing between keeping you interested but learning something, and the first place I have run accross that thoroughly explained how the Rosetta Stone was translated and exactly how hieroglyphics work, including some of their meanings. A comprehensive overview of Egypt's history, and it's political, cultural, intellectual and religious life. Gave great insight into how much our own culture and civilization - and Christianity, I think - really owe to the ancient Egyptians. They had the first calendar - the resurrection of a god theory, the first writing, the first surgery and medicine, the first real architecture, including the first use of stone, probably the first indoor plumbing. And mostly they seemed to be a well-off lot.
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