Ancient Egyptian Tombs by Snape, Steven

Ancient Egyptian Tombs (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405120890)

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Format: Hardcover
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Ancient Egyptian Tombs by Snape, Steven

Ancient Egyptian Tombs

$45.95
Ancient Egyptian Tombs by Snape, Steven

Ancient Egyptian Tombs

$45.95
Format: Hardcover
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This book explores the development of tombs as a cultural phenomenon in ancient Egypt and examines what tombs reveal about ancient Egyptian culture and Egyptians' belief in the afterlife.

  • Investigates the roles of tombs in the development of funerary practices
  • Draws on a range of data, including architecture, artifacts and texts
  • Discusses tombs within the context of everyday life in Ancient Egypt
  • Stresses the importance of the tomb as an eternal expression of the self


Author: Steven Snape
ISBN-10: 1405120894
ISBN-13: 9781405120890
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2011
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 39
By Steven Snape
By Steven Snape
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STEVEN SNAPE is Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Liverpool, Director of Archaeological Collections in Liverpool University's Garstang Museum of Archaeology and Director of its excavations at the Ramesside fortress-town of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham. His books include Six Archaeological Sites in Sharqiyeh Province (1986), A Temple of Domitian at El-Ashmunein (1990), Egyptian Temples (1996) and Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham I: The Temple and Chapels (with P. Wilson, 2007).

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