title: Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharaohs
author:  Marcia Williams 
description: Several stories from ancient Egypt are exuberantly retold in this picture book for older readers...Williams infuses her retellings with a great deal of humor, and nearly every page includes an array of subtle jokes that are delightfully extended in her entertaining, often cheeky illustrations, which blend two distinct but compatible styles, those of comic books and Egyptian tomb paintings.<br>&#8212;Booklist
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  **Lost Ancient Technology**
  
  
  **Of Egypt**
  
  
  **Copyright Brien Foerster 2014**
  
  
  **Cover copyright Bryan Foerster 2014**
  
  
  **Dedication**
  
  
  I dedicate this book to those that ignited my interest in ancient Egypt, and
  those that fuelled that interest into a passion that grows each day. First of
  all to my mother Ann, who read me bedtime stories of the lives of the
  pharaohs, classical Greece and Rome, and global mythology. To my dear wife
  Irene, who has accompanied me to the magical land, and supported me when I had
  to go alone.
  
  
  To those great scholars, Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, John Anthony West,
  Christopher Dunn and Robert Schoch whose insights into ancient Egypt stirred
  up controversy and in some cases vehement attacks from conventional scholars.
  
  
  I wish also to thank all of the Egyptologists whose work has revealed so much
  that we now know about the dynastic Egyptians; who they were, when they lived,
  and what they accomplished. But my dee