Tutankhamun: The Life And Death Of A Pharoah

Author: David Murdoch

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Price : 19.95 NZD
ISBN : 9780751337488
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
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Weight (g) : 0.264
Publication date : 29 May 2003
Dimensions : 276mm X 218mm X 5mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : David Murdoch
Series : Discoveries S.
Bind : Paperback
Edition : JUN03
Illustrator : Chris Forsey
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Dewey classification : 932.014092
Reading Level : From 8 To 99
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Pages : 48
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Illustrations : Illustrations (chiefly col.), facsims., map, ports.
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In this text, accompany two archaeologists as they discover the tomb of the boy king, Tutankhamun and the exquisite treasures inside it. Learn about his life and death, from coming to power at the age of nine, to his burial nine years later.

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David Murdoch is a principal teaching fellow in the History department of the University of Leeds. His previous titles include Eyewitness Guides: Cowboy and Eyewitness Guides: North American Indian which won the New York City Library's Teenage Book of the Year award in 1995.

This discovery; the characters; the Valley of the Kings; the hidden steps; breaking through; the antechamber; the burial chamber; the treasury; the annexe; unwrapping the mummy; treasures of the tomb; the journey to the tomb; "wonderful things"; life and times of Tutankhamun; the kingdom of the Nile; gods and religion; the pharaoh; who was Tutankhamun?; mummies and embalming; the archaeologists at work.

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