1957 Book When Egypt Ruled the East Hardcover

1957 Book "When Egypt Ruled the East" Hardcover

Used hardcover book, with dust jacket

The book is in excellent used condition with no damage.  Dust spots on the edges of the top pages.

The dust cover shows its age --- several small tears and a patch missing from the bottom of the spine

Written by George Steindorff and Keith C. Seele, revised by Keith C. Seele

Copyright 1957 by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago

Second edition, published by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago

285  pages, including the index

9¾ by 7 inches

"Thirty-five hundred years ago a splended culture flourished in the empire on the Nile.  For five hundred years Egypt ruled the East.  But her great culture gradually crumbled, her dynasties perished, and her story lay hidden in ruined temples and tombs, scattered blocks of stone, and papryrus fragments. "

"For more than a century, however, discoveries of these remains have been opening the eys of the world to the sumptuous splender of this golden age.  Here, adequately presented for the first time in  English, is the fascinating story of this incomparable epoch of the ancient worlds: kings and conquests, gods and heroes, the small but important details of life, the beautiful art, sculpture, poetry, architecture --- one of the highest peaks of human culture."

Lavishly illustrated with 109 photographs and drawings.