A dozen picturesque vintage photos and postcards of Egypt, from the late 19th century through the early 20th - souvenirs of intrepid Victorian and Edwardian tourists. Includes scenes of Cairo, its... More > famous hotels and museum, mummies, pyramids and sphinx, mosques, camels, veiled ladies, the Nile... and several prints in truly beautiful hand-tinted color.
A talking-point for the wall at home or in the office, also makes a great, original gift! See also our other vintage travel titles availale as downloadable ebooks and screensavers, including "Ancient Egypt - Old Engravings"!< Less
If you love Egypt and plan to visit this beautiful country then this is the fun way to learn of 20 attractions that you just have to see while visiting Egypt.
To make things fun you have the option... More > of discovering the attractions by answering 20 Puzzlers. You will see a question followed by a puzzler. Each puzzler contains the answer but you will have to unjumble the letters to form the winning word.
To make things easier all the answers are at the back of the book. So test your knowledge of Egypt today and hopefully learn some interesting new places to visit in Egypt while playing some enjoyable word games. Check out the six beautiful photographs of Egypt as you work your way through this book.
If you are ready to test your puzzle solving skills and spend an hour or so of fun lets begin right now.< Less
Mike & Gill McKever venture on a tour of Egypt.
Getting lost in Cairo’s Khan-el-Khalili bazaar is just a tame start to another tale of hilarious incompetence abroad. Soon they’ll be... More > cruising down the Nile in pursuit of the Pharaohs - leaving a trail of UHTmilk behind them and a toilet attendant with a curse more deadly than Tutankhamen’s tomb.
Mike deconstructs the myths of ancient Egypt in a series of ‘grumpy old man’ rants, and offends not only his fellow tourists, Soviet architecture, Egyptologists and management consultants but every religion under the sun god. Meanwhile Gill gets the ‘green tent’ treatment at the local Mosque and freaks over a waiter with a penchant for origami-based practical jokes.
Narrowly avoiding another war with Germany they take it in their stride when the military storm the toilets at Abu Simbel and dump them on a plane like lost luggage. And somewhere along the line they, and possibly you, learn a bit about ancient Egypt - if you can stop laughing.< Less
Mike & Gill McKever venture on a tour of Egypt.
Getting lost in Cairo’s Khan-el-Khalili bazaar is just a tame start to another tale of hilarious incompetence abroad. Soon they’ll be... More > cruising down the Nile in pursuit of the Pharaohs - leaving a trail of UHTmilk behind them and a toilet attendant with a curse more deadly than Tutankhamen’s tomb.
Mike deconstructs the myths of ancient Egypt in a series of ‘grumpy old man’ rants, and offends not only his fellow tourists, Soviet architecture, Egyptologists and management consultants but every religion under the sun god. Meanwhile Gill gets the ‘green tent’ treatment at the local Mosque and freaks over a waiter with a penchant for origami-based practical jokes.
Narrowly avoiding another war with Germany they take it in their stride when the military storm the toilets at Abu Simbel and dump them on a plane like lost luggage. And somewhere along the line they, and possibly you, learn a bit about ancient Egypt - if you can stop laughing.< Less
Six Essays was written whilst completing the 4 year Manchester University Egyptology online course. Each essay contains the complete bibliography used during the research.
Jane Akshar is a resident... More > of Luxor, Egypt. A lover of Egyptology since early childhood she moved to Egypt in 2003 and runs tourist apartments.
Six Essays was written whilst completing the 4 year Manchester University online course. It covers Pyramids, Egyptian Art and the Tomb, Hatshepsut the Queen that became a King, Temples, Sea Peoples and other foreign invaders, Decline of the Egyptian Empire, Saites, Egyptian culture. Each essay has its own bibliography and these are a great background read for your Egyptian Holiday or Nile Cruise.< Less
The obelisk in Piazza Duomo in Catania is Egyptianizing: that is to say, it is a monument that imitates Egyptian figurative elements in the imagery and in the regal and divine attributes.... More > Furthermore, it does not exhibit hieroglyphics relating to the cult of Isis, but simply incised designs: above all human and divine figures, placed from top to bottom, which, as they do not constitute hieroglyphic writing in the full sense, serve a purely ornamental purpose. A peculiar characteristic of our obelisk, which tourist guides should highlight, is the untypical and singular octagonal shape, which so far has not been found in any other known obelisks, which have quadrangular section.< Less
