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Focusing on the experience of a young girl and her family, this book recreates the daily life of middle-class residents of the ancient town of Lahun during Egypt's Middle Kingdom, or Classical Age. After placing the town in its accurate historical and geographical context, the author chronicles the everyday life of its inhabitants - from their education, occupations, and food preparation to their religious rituals, healing techniques, marriages, births, and deaths.

Throughout the book, authenticity takes center stage. This perfect snapshot in time has been painstakingly recreated using recently published textual data and archaeological findings directly from the settlement of Lahun as well as from other contemporary settlement and mortuary sites. Wherever possible, actual physical artifacts are illustrated with line-drawings or photographs (some published here for the first time), accompanied by descriptions of their production and use. Daily Life in Ancient Egypt is a scholarly portrayal of Egypt's Classical Age and a timeless microcosm of daily life in an ancient Egyptian town.

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Title Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: Recreating Lahun
Author Kasia Szpakowska
Binding Paperback
Edition Illustrated.
Pages 256
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Date 2007-12
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781405118569 / 1405118563
Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
Dimensions 9.5 x 6.77 x 0.76 in (24.13 x 17.20 x 1.93 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Cultural Region: North Africa
Library of Congress subjects Egypt - Antiquities, Egypt - Social life and customs - To 332 B.C
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007022247
Dewey Decimal Code 932.014

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Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2008, Page 70

About the author

Kasia Szpakowska is an Egyptologist in the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology, and a member of the Centre for Egyptology and Mediterranean Archaeology (CEMA) at the University of Wales, Swansea. She is the author of Behind Closed Eyes: Dreams and Nightmares in Ancient Egypt, and editor of Through a Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams, and Prophecy in Ancient Egypt. Her current research focuses on gender and daily life in the Late Middle Kingdom as well as private religious practice in Egypt through the New Kingdom.

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Paperback / softback. New. Using the life of a young girl and her family as a model, this book recreates the daily life of the middle-class residents of the ancient town of Lahun during Egypt's Middle Kingdom period. This perfect snapshot in time has been painstakingly recreated using recently published textual data and archaeological findings.