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| Authors: Ian Andrew, Dugald Steer
Creators: Emily Sands, Nick Harris, Helen Ward
Publisher: Candlewick
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 15765
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 32
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 12 x 10.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0763626384
Dewey Decimal Number: 932
EAN: 9780763626389
ASIN: 0763626384
Publication Date: November 4, 2004
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Condition: The book is clean but may have highlights.
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Product Description
Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition — a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread.
Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt — and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris. Alas, Miss Sands and crew soon vanished into the desert, never to be seen again. But luckily, her keen observations live on in the form of a lovingly kept journal, full of drawings, photographs, booklets, foldout maps, postcards, and many other intriguing samples. Here are just a few of EGYPTOLOGY's special features:
— an extravagantly gilded cover, featuring a raised Horus hawk pendant with three encrusted gems
— a playable game of Senet — ancient Egyptian checkers — including board, pieces, original-style dice, and rules
— a souvenir booklet showing how to read simple hieroglyphs
— a scrap of textured "mummy cloth"
— a facsimile of the gilded mummy mask of King Tut
— a gilded eye-of-Horus amulet with a "jewel" at the end
Rich with information about life in ancient Egypt and peppered with Miss Sands's lively narration, EGYPTOLOGY concludes with a letter from the former Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum, explaining which parts of this unique tale may be accepted as fact, which are guided by legend, and which reflect the author's delightful sense of fancy.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 46 more reviews...
 Beautifully Illustrated Book November 16, 2004
Jennifer Ortiz (Irvington, NJ United States)
47 out of 48 found this review helpful
As a fan of Elizabeth Peter's "Amelia Peabody" series, I was very excited to came across "Egyptology" by Emily Sands and immediately had to have it. It is beautifully illustrated and a great source of information. The book is put together like a scrapbook of Emily Sand's vacation to Egypt. It has drawings and pictures of places as well as little envelopes holding letters and game pieces. It is really charming. Anyone with an interest in Egypt and its antiquities should enjoy this book.
Jennifer
Treasure of Fun for Your Little Indiana Jones! December 5, 2005
mrs.c (Columbus, OH)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
This book is full of fun and facts. Our son was given this book as a gift for his birthday. What a wonderful gift it was! We spend about half an hour at a time on a page. There are lots of "secrets" and pockets and even a game. The book pretends to be a mysterious manuscript dating to 1926 (or is it real?) and provides readers young and old with an imaginative tour of Egypt's mysteries. Its heavy pages have the feel of a well-made pop-up book and its storyline is absorbing. My son seems to scan around the pages and find something new every time we open the book. It's fun for him but, I enjoy it just as much. It reminds me of the fun adventure of Indiana Jones.
So much fun and a learning tool too November 7, 2004
cucs (seattle, wa)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book is great. I got it for my sons and I am the one who stayed up late reading it. It is full of fun discoveries, and good information to use as a teaching tool for my kids. I'll tell them its the real journal of my aunt (hey, at 4 they still want to believe its true). The design of the book and the illustrations are beautiful, it will be something we read over and over again. Got it along with Dragonology which my sons LOVE. Amazing that this can be had for only 12 or 13$!
 Egyptology July 13, 2006
A. Rand (United States)
14 out of 20 found this review helpful
"Egyptology" is a large-size, illustrated book and the second in the "ologies" series. Other books in the series are "Dragonology," "Wizardology," and "Pirateology." The book is very short, at only 32 pages, but the illustrations are good. The book has black and white illustrations as well as full color illustrations and is written as if it is a scrapbook/travel journal from an amateur archaeologist who lived in the 1920's. Each of the sections covers a specific area of ancient Eqypt and the text is mostly made of up facts with some asides from the fictional author.
Over all, this isn't as good as the other "ologies" books and the text is hard to read sometimes as it is made to look as if it were written on a manual typewriter.
Egyptology December 2, 2004
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I bought this book for myself and i have to say it is absoutely awesome! I stayed up for 2 hourse reading every detail of this exciting "long-lost" diary. The games Senet is very fun and the "papyrus" looks very real! The cover looks like it is made out of gold and is very cool. I enjoyed this book and reccommend it to everyone.
- Sophi :-)
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