mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jo Marchant

LORD CARNARVON’S DEMISE wasn’t the only source of dramatic stories constructed from evidence that some might consider rather thin. Attention also focused on Tutankhamun’s own death, or to be more ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-06 | Author:Joyce Tyldesley

Both these women chose to shun conventional female dress in order to challenge the way that their societies perceived them. However, there are clear differences between the two cases. Joan ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Daniel Meyerson [Meyerson, Daniel]

AS 1900 APPROACHED, THE TURN OF THE CENTURY BROUGHT Carter a great surprise. The excellence of his work for the last five years had been noted by Gaston Maspero, director ...

epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Nonie Darwish

Child rearing: American parents’ traditional upbringing standards are also very different. First of all, they instill in their children—boys and girls equally—the American values of respect, thrift, hard work, and ...

epub |eng | 2009-07-16 | Author:Holland, Glenn S. [Holland, Glenn S.]

CHAPTER NINE Mesopotamia: The World of the Dead The Realm of the Dead in the Ancient Mediterranean World Ancient Mesopotamian beliefs about the afterlife and the situation of the dead ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Peter Stothard [Stothard, Peter]

Maurice did not enjoy his Nubian night. When I returned from the King’s Arms, I found the would-be seducer sitting on our two-seat settee almost exactly where I had left ...

epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Michael Asher [Asher, Michael]

10 The 19th Hussars under Lieut. Colonel Percy Barrow dashed up to the square to find it was all over. They had been tasked with skirmishing to the left, but ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-06 | Author:Joyce Tyldesley

Through her transvestism, she abrogated the destiny of womankind. She could thereby transcend her sex; she could set herself apart and usurp the privileges of the male and his claims ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Amitav Ghosh

14 WITH THE COMING of winter the rains began and soon the lanes of Nashawy were knee-deep in cold, sticky mud and nobody ventured out of their houses if they ...