Life in Ancient Egypt and Assyria

xv, 376 pp. Burnt sienna boards with an illustration of an Egyptian archer on spine and an illustration of a pharaoh in a chariot on front board. With one hundred and eighty-eight illustrations. CONTENTS: Egypt: Thebes and the Popular Life; The Market and the Shops; Pharaoh; Amen, the Great God of Thebes; The Recruitment of the Army; Life in the Castle; Illness and Death; The Funeral and the Tomb; The Journey; The Battle. Assyria: A Royal Residence: Dur-Sarginu; Private Life of an Assyrian; Death and the Funeral; The Royal Chase; The Royal Audience: Preparing for War; Assurbanipal's Library; The Science of Presages; The War; The Fleet and the Siege of a City; The Triumph.