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Archaeologist and historian, Joyce Tyldesley has written many successful books about ancient Egypt, including acclaimed biographies of Rameses the Great and Cleopatra (a Radio 4 Book of the Week), and Egypt: How a Lost Civilization was Rediscovered, which accompanied a major BBC television series. She teaches Egyptology at Manchester University and is an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool University. She lives in Bolton, Lancashire.

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Tyldesley, by painstakingly analysing the myths and therefore the beliefs, of the ancient population, endeavours to get under the skin of Egyptian life ... befuddling myth-stories are clarified -- Bettany Hughes * The Times *
Required reading for Egypt's imaginative tour guides * The Sunday Times *
her great strength is her story-telling * Sunday Telegraph *

The Penguin Book of Myths and Legends of Ancient

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 04/08/2011
      ISBN13: 9780141021768, 978-0141021768
      ISBN10: 0141021764
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      Non Fiction Education Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Archaeologist and historian, Joyce Tyldesley has written many successful books about ancient Egypt, including acclaimed biographies of Rameses the Great and Cleopatra (a Radio 4 Book of the Week), and Egypt: How a Lost Civilization was Rediscovered, which accompanied a major BBC television series. She teaches Egyptology at Manchester University and is an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool University. She lives in Bolton, Lancashire.

      Trade Review
      Tyldesley, by painstakingly analysing the myths and therefore the beliefs, of the ancient population, endeavours to get under the skin of Egyptian life ... befuddling myth-stories are clarified -- Bettany Hughes * The Times *
      Required reading for Egypt's imaginative tour guides * The Sunday Times *
      her great strength is her story-telling * Sunday Telegraph *

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