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MAHDY,CHRISTINE**: : TUTANKHAMEN:The Life and Death of a Boy King.[Author SIGNED copy.]**

LONDON.HEADLINE,1999.

ISBN 0747221871.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.NMINT/NMINT. Author SIGNED/inscribed:"For Barbara,with best wishes Christine Mahdy" to title page.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic (wall/temple fresco) wrap-around illustrated dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear and/or creases - no nicks or tears present - and no bumped/ creased corners.Top+fore-edges bright, clean and unmarked,contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear creases to page corners - appears unread. Unblemished,plain brown paper-covered bds with bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate, plain beige eps.8vo,1-341pp includes half-title+author SIGNED title page(s),contents list, author foreword,3 Pts (icludes intro to Pt 1),b/w hieroglyphic chapter head-pieces,b/w maps+line illustrations (floor plans etc),b/w contemporary photographs,16pp colour photographs between pp88/9 and pp216/7 respectively,appendices(5),suggested reading and an index. Three and a half thousand years ago, a little boy of around six or seven years old was led by the most senior officials of ancient Egypt into the magnificent temple of Karnak, where he was crowned Pharaoh.Barely nine years later he was dead.After a surreptitious and hasty burial in the Valley of the Kings,he lay in peace for perhaps a few months before robbers broke into his tomb.Fortunately they were caught and the tomb was restored to its original state.That was almost the end of the story for this insignificant boy king.Until,in 1922,Howard Carter reopened the tomb,revealing its extraordinary treasures to the world,and Tutankhamen suddenly achieved a fame he had never attained in life. The contents of the tomb have been a source of wonder ever since.What kind of civilization could afford to place the body of a young boy into an immensely valuable solid gold coffin and then forget about it? Over the years, the glint of this gold has slowly eclipsed our knowledge of the king for whom it was crafted.Today,if anything,things have been yet further confused by the theories of writers who claim Tutankhamen was everything from an alien to the Messiah.Christine El Mahdy has spent her career as an Egyptologist studying historical facts.Using recently discovered archeological evidence,she can now tell the real story of Tutankhamen's life:the turbulence surrounding his accession to the throne,the powerful and ruthless men who tried to control him and the events leading up to his death.It is a thrilling story of incredible passion and power, played out against the background of the most advanced civilization in the ancient world. Christine El Mahdy is a widely renowned Egyptologist whose interest in the subject started as a child (she taught herself to read hieroglyphs at the age of nine).She has worked in the Egyptian departments of Bolton Museum, Lancashire and Liverpool University museum and,in 1988,she founded the Egyptian Society, which she now runs.She has previously written two internationally best-selling books on ancient Egypt: 'Exploring the World of the Pharaohs' and 'Mummies, Myth and Magic'.See also rja2163, rja2165 and rja2166 for similar title/topics. Please contact seller, because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
:"For Barbara,with best wishes Christine Mahdy"

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