PHARAOHS AND MORTALS (illustrated) - Torgny Save-Soderbergh
Hard cover. Cloth-bound.
Contains 20 plates of illustrations.
Letters stamped on spine.
Condition good. A few underlines and notes on the text by the previous owner. Still, all pages are perfectly readable.
Egyptian history book. English language.
PHARAOHS AND MORTALS
Author: TORGNY SAVE-SODERBERGH
Translated from the Swedish by: RICHARD E. OLDENBURG
Publisher: ROBERT HALE LIMITED, LONDON
Publication year: 1963
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
Pages: 190 + 20 plates of illustrations
Dimensions: 22 x 14 cm
CONTENTS:
FOREWORD
FROM EGYPTIAN HISTORY
- THE DANGEROUS BORDER
- THE QUEEN WHO DISAPPEARED
- THE TIME OF REVOLUTION
- HISTORY'S CHILDREN OF MISFORTUNE
- THE SACRED WEDDING, AND WOMAN AS PHARAOH
- TUTHMOSIS III, ANTIQUITY'S NAPOLEON
- AKHENATON - A STRANGE INTERLUDE
- KING OF EGYPT AND THE SUDAN
- THE SOLITARY VICTOR
- RAMSES III, THE LAST GREAT PHARAOH
- A MEETING BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: HERODOTUS' TRIP TO EGYPT
FROM EGYPTIAN LITERATURE
- BOOKS AND SCRIBES
- IN THE SHADE OF THE SYCAMORES: OF PERFUMES AND LOVE
- WISE AS PTAHHOTEP
- THE FAIR-FACED CROCODILE
- PHYSICIANS AND THE HEALING ART
FROM CHRISTIAN TIMES
- THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT
- COPTIC
- SCOUNDREL OR SAINT: THE COPTIC MONK SHENUTE
HISTORICAL OUTLINE
INDEX
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Torgny Säve-Söderbergh (1914 - 1998) was a Swedish author, translator and professor of Egyptology at Uppsala University in 1950–1980. He was the son of Gotthard Söderbergh .
