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Egyptian religion had a significant impact on the religions of the Mediterranean world, particularly Greek and Roman. Based on pyramid texts, coffin texts, and spells written on papyri, learn what these ancient peoples believed about the potential for a soul to become immortal, the location of the afterlife in the West, and why the dead needed nourishment from the living.
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480 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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Details Napoleon's dramatic invasion of Egypt in 1798, the first attack on a Middle-Eastern country by a Western power in modern times. With 335 ships and 40,000 men, it was the largest long-distance seaborne force the world had ever seen. But Napoleon's assault was intended to be much more than a colonial adventure, for he took with him over one hundred and fifty scientists, mathematicians, artists, and writers - a "Legion of Culture" - with a view...
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216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"An investigation into the real historical figure of King David and the real location of the Temple of Solomon Identifies King David as Pharaoh Tuthmosis III of the 18th Dynasty and David's son Solomon as Pharaoh Amenhotep, Tuthmosis's successor Shows how the Temple of Solomon described in the Bible corresponds with the Mortuary Temple of Luxor in Egypt Explains how David was not a descendant of Isaac but his father and how biblical narrators changed...
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