In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Egypt during the old kingdom-English, author Jaromir Malek.

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It was during the period known as the Old Kingdom (2658-2135 B.C.) that ancient Egyptian civilization achieved its first flowering. Those 500 years saw the creation of the institutions and beliefs that were to dominate later periods of Egyptian civilization, and for many the tombs, statues and pyramids of the Old Kingdom have come to epitomize the whole of ancient Egypt. Most books on Egypt are based on the description of the monuments as viewed by us. Jaromir Malek's approach is fundamentally different, presenting an engrossing picture of Old Kingdom society as it appeared to the Egyptians themselves. He discusses the ideological and economic factors which moulded everday life and perceptively illuminates the ideas and attitudes which pervaded Old Kingdom society. Above all he reveals, in absorbing detail, how every aspect of life was, for the ancient Egyptians, intimately bound up with religion. The Egyptians lived, literally and metaphorically, in the shadow of the pyramids. Werner Forman's exceptional photographs show not only familiar monuments in a new light, but also many beautiful tomb reliefs that have never before been published. Publisher The American University in Cairo Press, auther Jaromir Malek, pages = 128, date , cover hard, ISBN 806120290.