Archaeology Hotspot Egypt: Unearthing the Past for Armchair Ar .

Name: Archaeology Hotspot Egypt: Unearthing the Past for Armchair Ar .
Brand: Julian Heath

Julian Heath

Archaeology Hotspot EgyptUnearthing the Past for Armchair Archaeologists\nAuthor(s): Julian Heath\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9780759124011, 978-0759124011\nSynopsis\nThe Archaeology Hotspots series offers reader-friendly and engaging narratives of the archaeology in particular countries. Written by archaeological experts with a general reader in mind, each book in the series focuses on what has been found and by whom, what the controversies and scandals have been, ongoing projects, and how it all fits into a broader view of the history of the country. \n\nIn Archaeology Hotspot Egypt, scholar Julian Heath provides a chronological overview beginning with handaxes left by Homo erectus during the Lower Paleolithic and moving onwards through pharaonic Egypt to finish in the Greco-Roman period. He covers the most interesting findsincluding Tutankhamens tomb and the Rosetta Stoneand profiles major pers.