PHARAOHS AND MORTALS (illustrated) - Torgny Save-Soderbergh

Hard cover. Cloth-bound.
Contains 20 plates of illustrations.
Letters stamped on spine.
Condition good. A few underlines and notes on the text by the previous owner. Still, all pages are perfectly readable.
Egyptian history book. English language.
PHARAOHS AND MORTALS
Author: TORGNY SAVE-SODERBERGH
Translated from the Swedish by: RICHARD E. OLDENBURG
Publisher: ROBERT HALE LIMITED, LONDON
Publication year: 1963
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
Pages: 190 + 20 plates of illustrations
Dimensions: 22 x 14 cm
CONTENTS:
FOREWORD
FROM EGYPTIAN HISTORY
THE DANGEROUS BORDER
THE QUEEN WHO DISAPPEARED
THE TIME OF REVOLUTION
HISTORY'S CHILDREN OF MISFORTUNE
THE SACRED WEDDING, AND WOMAN AS PHARAOH
TUTHMOSIS III, ANTIQUITY'S NAPOLEON
AKHENATON - A STRANGE INTERLUDE
KING OF EGYPT AND THE SUDAN
THE SOLITARY VICTOR
RAMSES III, THE LAST GREAT PHARAOH
A MEETING BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: HERODOTUS' TRIP TO EGYPT
FROM EGYPTIAN LITERATURE
BOOKS AND SCRIBES
IN THE SHADE OF THE SYCAMORES: OF PERFUMES AND LOVE
WISE AS PTAHHOTEP
THE FAIR-FACED CROCODILE
PHYSICIANS AND THE HEALING ART
FROM CHRISTIAN TIMES
THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT
COPTIC
SCOUNDREL OR SAINT: THE COPTIC MONK SHENUTE
HISTORICAL OUTLINE
INDEX
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Torgny Säve-Söderbergh (1914 - 1998) was a Swedish author, translator and professor of Egyptology at Uppsala University in 1950–1980. He was the son of Gotthard Söderbergh .