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Egyptian Mythology: A Fascinating Guide to Understanding the Gods, Goddesses, Monsters, and Mortals
PaperbackOriginal price $13.34 - Original price $13.34Original price $13.34$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Enjoy Captivating Stories of the Gods, Goddesses, Monsters, and Mortals From what we know of history, Egypt, along with Sumer, were the foundatio...
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Hieroglyphs, Pseudo-Scripts and Alphabets: Their Use and Reception in Ancient Egypt and Neighbouring Regions
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The Egyptian hieroglyphic script was exceptionally versatile, as becomes clear when studying its multiple uses both within Ancient Egypt and beyond...
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A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3: From the Shepherd Kings to the End of the Theban Monarchy
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00Original price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00Current price $53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known state Archaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chroniclin...
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Historical Dictionary of Egypt
HardcoverOriginal price $270.00 - Original price $270.00Original price $270.00$319.99$319.99 - $319.99Current price $319.99| /Egypt is the world’s oldest continuous country, with a recorded past of over 6,000 years. Often invaded, conquered, and occupied by foreign armie...
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Overland To Cairo By Any Means
PaperbackOriginal price $17.49 - Original price $17.49Original price $17.49$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /On January 17th, 1982 I received an urgent telegram from my brother, who was a teacher trainer for Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO) in ...
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Overland To Cairo By Any Means
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /On January 17th, 1982 I received an urgent telegram from my brother, who was a teacher trainer for Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO) in ...
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The Ghost of Cleopatra: Edmonia Lewis and Her Lost Masterpiece
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The Ghost of Cleopatra is a work of historical fiction by John Rice and Gail Tanzer. It tells the story of African-American/Native American sculpto...
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Emirate, Egyptian, Ethiopian: Colonial Experiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Harar
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /In October 1875, two months after the takeover of the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the ...
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The Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /An award-winning account of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's most controversial novel and the fierce debates that it provoked Naguib Mahfouz's nove...
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt w...
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South Sudan's Fateful Struggle: Building Peace in a State of War
HardcoverOriginal price $83.00 - Original price $83.00Original price $83.00$99.99$99.99 - $99.99Current price $99.99| /The Comprehensive Peace Agreement marked the end of Sudan's second civil war between the North and South. But in creating an autonomous southern re...
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Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780520385504 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: University of California Press Publication Date: 08-08-2023 Pages: 354
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Islamic Cairo in Maps: Finding the Monuments
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A portable, easy-to-use map guide that locates over 700 hundred Islamic-era monuments in historic Cairo using the most sophisticated Geographic Inf...
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First Steps in Egyptian Hieroglyphics: A Book for Beginners
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The dearth of suitable introductory texts presents a serious obstacle to the study of the Egyptian language, so this practical grammar answers a ...
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Egyptian Hieroglyphics: How to Read and Write Them
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Clear, easy-to-follow text tells absolute beginners how to transcribe hieroglyphs by presenting and explaining 134 phonetic elements. Included ar...
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Egyptian Hieroglyphic Grammar: A Handbook for Beginners
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Written and spoken for about 4,000 years, Egyptian is no longer a living language (Arabic is the major language of modern Egypt); however, ancien...
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Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics
PaperbackOriginal price $10.95 - Original price $10.95Original price $10.95$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /Budge gives the history of hieroglyphic writing, its evolution into hieratic and demotic scripts, and the fascinating tale of its decipherment by Y...
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Ancient Egyptian Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /First published in 1973, this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the litera...
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Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination -- mummies and pyramids, curses ...
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Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series interested in ...
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