Experience of Ancient Egypt

<p><em>The Experience of Ancient Egypt</em> provides a comprehensive portrait of what we know about ancient Egypt today examining in detail issues of religion of beliefs and practices surrounding death of everyday life and of literature.<br>In an engaging style the author traces Egyptology from its classical roots through the painstaking process of deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the most up-to-date bio-medical and archaeological techniques never forgetting how time has proved that it is impossible to deliver the absolute truth about ancient Egypt.</p>