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Title: Valley of the Golden Mummies by Zahi Hawass ISBN: 0-8109-3942-8 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Coffee Table Book
Comment: It is indeed a good coffee table book (as another reviewer said). It's a beautiful & informative piece & often sparks conversation. ....a nice book to add to your collection!!
Rating: 4
Summary: Experience an Ancient Excavation Thru Breathtaking Photos
Comment: Zahi Hawass was director general of Giza, Saqqara, Imbaba, and Bahariya Oasis who was concentrating his excavations at the Giza Pyramids, particularly the Tombs of the Pyramid Builders, when the Golden Mummies were discovered in the Bahariya Oasis in 1996. Then on, his efforts shifted to this new discovery. So far, over 100 complete Greco-Roman period mummies have been uncovered at Bahariya ranging in status from wealthy gold-encased merchants to the carelessly prepared poor. Hawass believes up to ten thousand mummies will eventually be discovered in a fifty year excavation (pg. 16). Many questions may be answered from these discoveries concerning the influence of Greek and Roman rule on Egyptian life (pg. 18).
Hawass gives the reader some insight on what it is like to be part of the excavation. Digging up black sand, for example, is an indication that one is getting close to a mummy (pg. 33). He describes the overpowering smells one experiences when uncovering a mummy that has been under the sand for thousands of years and what it is like to be brushing away and then to suddenly be greeted by the stare of an obsidian eye (pg. 53). He describes a mummy being prepared for transport and his own experience with the curse of the mummies forcing him to send the father of two child mummies to the museum to reunite the family (chapter 6).
Besides the golden mummies, other amazing discoveries in Bahariya are detailed in this book including an ancient wine factory (the first of its kind to be discovered), temples to the God of Bes and Hercules, and the only temple honoring Alexander the Great known to exist. Hawass describes the history of Bahariya as well as daily life as it exists today. Then, of course, there are the hundreds of breathtaking color photographs of the unique mummies, temples, and artifacts found at the sites. Because the sites described in this book are still under excavation, the defnitive book on the Valley of the Golden Mummies is yet to come and, if the author is correct, will take fifty years to complete. Still, the book offers interesting info on the sites up to this point in time although some of the copious details of mummies and artifacts gets tedious, especially in the last chapters. The book is 223 pages and includes an index, bibliography, and chronology of Egyptian rulers.
Rating: 4
Summary: Coffee Table Book
Comment: This was an interesting book and covered a number of topics involving the find of the Golden Mummies. However, it is more of a coffee table book than a serious tome on the subject.
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Title: Secrets from the Sand: My Search for Egypt's Past by Zahi A. Hawass ISBN: 0810945428 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Secrets of the Sphinx: Restoration Past and Present by Zahi A. Hawass, Gaballa Ali Gaballa, H. E. Farouk Hosni ISBN: 9774244923 Publisher: Amer Univ in Cairo Pr Pub. Date: 15 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Mysteries of Abu Simbel: Ramesses II and the Temples of the Rising Sun by Zahi A. Hawass, Farouk Hosni ISBN: 9774246233 Publisher: Amer Univ in Cairo Pr Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Silent Images : Women in Pharaonic Egypt by Zahi Hawass ISBN: 0810944782 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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Title:Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition) ASIN: B00012QM8G Publisher: Universal Studios Pub. Date: 09 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $18.89 |
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