No country’s past can match Egypt’s in antiquity, richness, and variety. Rarely, however, is this nation’s history presented as a comprehensive panorama, since scholars tend to divide it into distinct eras―pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, medieval Islamic, Ottoman, and modern―that are rarely studied in connection to each other, despite the strong elements of continuity running t...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 [埃及] 杰森·汤普森（Jason Thompson） 美国科尔比学院教授，埃及知名历史学家，对埃及史的研究广博而深入，以讲述通俗历史而著名。著有《加德纳·威尔金森爵士和他的圈子》（Sir Cardiner Wilkinson and His Circle），编有《埃及谈》（Description of Egypt）《漫谈现代埃及人的风俗文化》（An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians）等作品。 —————————— 【译者简介】 刘梦迪 苏州大学外国语学院英语翻译硕士，利物浦大学社会语言学博士在读，研究方向为多语、语言与身份构建、翻译理论与实践、中国文化翻译与对外传播。

This fascinating saga spans 3,000 years of Egyptian queenship from Early Dynastic times until the suicide of Cleopatra in 30 BC. Starting with the unique role enjoyed by Egypt's women in the ancient world, the book goes on to present a biographical portrait of every queen, supplemented by a wealth of pictorial detail, datafiles, genealogical trees, timelines, and special featur...(展开全部)

This fascinating saga spans 3,000 years of Egyptian queenship from Early Dynastic times until the suicide of Cleopatra in 30 BC. Starting with the unique role enjoyed by Egypt's women in the ancient world, the book goes on to present a biographical portrait of every queen, supplemented by a wealth of pictorial detail, datafiles, genealogical trees, timelines, and special featur...(展开全部)

The extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest monument - from specialist John Romer This exceptional book draws on a lifetime of research and thought to recreate the previously untold story of how a civilization which began with handfuls of semi-itinerant fishermen settled, spread and created a rich, vivid...(展开全部)

英国埃及学家、历史学家、考古学家约翰·罗默根据自己半个多世纪的学术研究和实地考察经历，基于曾被弃之一旁的证据，以及近二十年来的全新考古发现成果，撰写了一套三卷本古埃及史作品，重新构建了我们对世界上已知最早文明之一的理解。

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma , Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incred...(展开全部)

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma , Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incred...(展开全部)

A vivid and superbly written account of the unravelling of one of the great intellectual puzzles, set against the backdop of Europe in the Napoleonic era. When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, his troops were astonished to discover ancient temples, tombs and statues, all covered with hieroglyphs -- the last remnants of an unreadable script and a language lost in time. On their ...(展开全部)

A vivid and superbly written account of the unravelling of one of the great intellectual puzzles, set against the backdop of Europe in the Napoleonic era. When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, his troops were astonished to discover ancient temples, tombs and statues, all covered with hieroglyphs -- the last remnants of an unreadable script and a language lost in time. On their ...(展开全部)