Joyce Filer
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Joyce Filer is qualified teacher. She also worked for many years in the British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan. She is the author of Pyramids and people in Ancient Egypt.
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Disease (Egyptian Bookshelf) von Joyce Filer
Disease and sickness were among the more unpleasant facts of life in ancient Egypt and Nubia, where many of the illnesses we encounter today, such as tuberculosis, leprosy and malaria were already flourishing. Drawing extensively on the evidence provided by human remains, texts, statuary and other works of art, Joyce Filer describes some of the health problems suffered by king and commoner alike. She examines the case of individuals such as Seneb, an achondroplastic dwarf who achieved high status as a court official during the Old Kingdom, or the young child whose crippling bone disease was revealed by the mummified remains. Dental disease, chest complaints and parasitic infection from the waters of the Nile were a common part of Egyptian daily life.… (mehr)
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Ancient Egypt
2. Write the summary of the book.
Egypt was one of the greatest ancient civilization in Africa. Today, we still marvel at its pyramids, temples, mummies, and hieroglyphic writing. The most famous buildings in the world are in Lower Egypt―the pyramid of Giza. There are at least eighty pyramids in Egypt, but the Giza pyramids are the largest and by far the best-known.
All the amazing achievements of the Egyptian civilization were possible because the Nile created a land where people could live and prosper.
3. Write your feelings about the book in details.
The Fayum is particularly well-known for the type mummies that were made there in the later periods of Egyptian history. Earlier Egyptian mummies have masks of wood or gold, like that of Tutankhamen , but many of the Fayum mummies have a realistic painted portrait instead(See p 23).
The Fayum is by far the different from usual imagine of mummies, firstly I thought. But I understood the reason because the Romans conquered Egypt in 31 BC.
4. Write the words, phrases or sentences that impressed you in the book and explain why they impressed you. Or you could write your questions about the book.
When Henutmehyt died her body was mummified. The ancient Egyptians believed that dead people would need their bodies afterlife and so they became experts at mummifying, or preserving, dead bodies(See p 17).
Mummifying dead body is awful, I think. But ancient Egyptians believed afterlife, and that's why they did.… (mehr)
Ancient Egypt
2. Write the summary of the book.
Egypt was one of the greatest ancient civilization in Africa. Today, we still marvel at its pyramids, temples, mummies, and hieroglyphic writing. The most famous buildings in the world are in Lower Egypt―the pyramid of Giza. There are at least eighty pyramids in Egypt, but the Giza pyramids are the largest and by far the best-known.
All the amazing achievements of the Egyptian civilization were possible because the Nile created a land where people could live and prosper.
3. Write your feelings about the book in details.
The Fayum is particularly well-known for the type mummies that were made there in the later periods of Egyptian history. Earlier Egyptian mummies have masks of wood or gold, like that of Tutankhamen , but many of the Fayum mummies have a realistic painted portrait instead(See p 23).
The Fayum is by far the different from usual imagine of mummies, firstly I thought. But I understood the reason because the Romans conquered Egypt in 31 BC.
4. Write the words, phrases or sentences that impressed you in the book and explain why they impressed you. Or you could write your questions about the book.
When Henutmehyt died her body was mummified. The ancient Egyptians believed that dead people would need their bodies afterlife and so they became experts at mummifying, or preserving, dead bodies(See p 17).
Mummifying dead body is awful, I think. But ancient Egyptians believed afterlife, and that's why they did.… (mehr)
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