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From Dot to Cleo By
Alun Buffry Description
Alun Buffry's "From Dot to Cleo" takes out the confusion
and presents the facts and the mystery in a plain-speaking guide which takes the
reader from year dot before the beginning of recorded history to the time of
Cleopatra's death. Compact and yet comprehensive, this edition has few
illustrations but sells well in competition with illustrated, discontinuous
text, highly priced books about single
aspects of Ancient Egypt. "From
Dot to Cleo" fits into a pocket and can be read in one sitting or dipped
into for months.
At home or visiting Egypt, it leads the reader comfortably through
a whole field of fact and theory, recorded by antiquarians, archaeologists,
prehistorians, treasure and fame hunters, even a crank or two! Here are the
names, pharaohs, gods, kings, pyramids, obelisks, sphinxes and mummies, dynasty
by dynasty; here too, the legends, discoveries and great questions. Alun Buffry
is a scientist, so he doesn't accept things as true unless they are
proved, but he does not dismiss a theory because he does not agree with
it. This is an up-to-date reference book, which includes a guide to the
monuments and, a bonus for serious Egyptologists, the author's complete list of
the pharaohs.
Rights
© 1997 Alun Buffry / Frontier Publishing
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