Pharaoh's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt (1984)

Format: Trade Paperback

ISBN: 0226391949

Condition: Acceptable

The back part of the book was subjected to a spill and the edges of the those pages are stained and damaged.

Book Description:

Popular interest in ancient Egypt has tended to focus on the deeds of rulers, great nobles, and priests. In Pharaoh's People T. G. H. James widens our view by examining the daily working lives of Egyptians lower down the social scale: the bureaucrats; the scribes; craftsmen in stone, wood, and metal; and workers on the land. What sort of houses did they live in, and how were the houses furnished? How was justice administered, and how were public records kept? How was business conducted in a thriving economy largely based on barter? - from the back cover