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Publisher Marketing: Revive the wisdom of the ancient Egyptians with this practical manual that explains their divination and magical practices! "Ancient Egyptian Divination And Magic" is a liberating work for anyone who has ever been intrigued by ancient Egyptian magic and deities. Easy instructions for learning to work with Egyptian hieroglyphics and phonetics so you can "say the words".

Contributor Bio: Eleanor L Harris:
Harris is an experienced grief counselor for pet loss. She's held a seat on the Board of Directors for the Pet Adoption League and has worked for a pet cemetery.

Publisher Marketing: Phanes (fa-nays) means "manifester" or "revealer", and is related to the Greek words "light" and "to shine forth".

Contributor Bio: Robert Kelley:
Kelley was Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jacket Description/Back: During the dynastic period (3000 BC - 332 BC), as the Greek historian Herodotus was intrigued to observe, Egyptian women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, unrivalled, indeed, by women in Europe until the late nineteenth century. They could own and trade in property, work outside the home, marry foreigners and even live alone without the protection of a male guardian. Furthermore, women fortunate enough to be members of the royal harem were vastly influential, as were those rare women who rose to rule Egypt as 'female kings'. Joyce Tyldesley draws upon archaeological, historical and ethnographical evidence to piece together a vivid picture of daily life in Egypt - marriage and the home, work and play, grooming, religion - all viewed from a female perspective. She has an engaging eye for incidental detail and draws fascinating parallels and contrasts between the ancient and our modern world.

Contributor Bio: Joyce A Tyldesley:
Tyldesley, holder of a doctorate from Oxford University, is Honorary Research Fellow at the school of Archeology, Classics, and Oriental Studies at Liverpool University, England.

Book Annotation: This is the only illustrated guide to the meaning and mystery of reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Includes a history of the symbols and instructions on how to read them. Illustrations.

Contributor Bio: Bridget McDermott:
McDermott is at work on her doctoral theisis on the ancient Egyptian military, and is also a media consultant on Egyptian archaeology.

Joann Fletcher:
Fletcher is an expert in ancient cosmetics and hair. She currently is investigating the mummy of a Pharaoh in Cairo. She is Director of the NILE educational organization, and divides her time between Egypt and England.

Explore Egyptian beliefs, myths and rituals in this superbly illustrated, highly original work by one of Egyptology's most exciting writers.

The ancient Egyptians left behind an astonishing cultural legacy – a rich body of writings about the quest for immortality and the passage through life, death and the Underworld. The Egyptian Book of Living and Dying explores these beliefs of the pharaohs by tracing the stages of life from conception to the life beyond the tomb. This cycle is set against the eternal backdrop of the cosmos – the gods, the movement of the sun, the symbolism of the stars, and the great battles of Horus and Seth. At the heart of the book are the key themes of creation, magic, ritual and eternity, each treated in a series of superbly illustrated explorations. The result is a fascinating book for all those who wish to move one step closer to the spirit of the ancient Egyptians.

Publisher Marketing: "The Egyptian Book of the Dead" is unquestionably one of the most influential books in all history. Embodying a ritual to be performed for the dead, with detailed instruction for the behavior of the disembodied spirit in the Land of the Gods, it served as the most important repository of religious authority for some three thousand years. Chapters were carved on the pyramids of the ancient 5th Dynasty, texts were written in payrus, and selections were painted on mummy cases well into the Christian Era. In a certain sense it stood behind all Egyptian civilization.

Contributor Bio: E A Wallis Budge:
budge was a keeper of egyptian and assyrian antiquities in the british museum

E A Wallis Budge:
budge was a keeper of egyptian and assyrian antiquities in the british museum