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English edition
172 pp.
Hardbound
24.50 x 28.00 cm
$39.95
LE 200.00
ISBN
978 977 424 836 8
For sale worldwide
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The Golden Age of Tutankhamun
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Zahi Hawass
A fresh look at the life and times of the boy-king
Tutankhamun has fascinated the world ever since Howard Carter’s spectacular discovery of his treasure-filled tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. Egypt’s leading Egyptologist, Zahi Hawass, here tells the story of this golden king, a short-lived pharaoh who came to the throne of Egypt as a child and died before the age of twenty, and of the royal dynasty that bred him. The reader will meet Tutankhamun’s grandparents, the Sun King, Amenhotep III and his beautiful wife Tiye, as well as the boy-king’s ‘heretic’ father, Akhenaten, his stepmother Nefertiti, and his half-sisters, the sun-kissed princesses of Amarna. Tutankhamun lived and died during one of the most fascinating periods in Egyptian history; this book will provide a window into this extraordinary time of turmoil and treasure.
The Golden Age of Tutankhamun is beautifully illustrated, primarily with photographs of objects from a new traveling exhibit that is taking pieces from Cairo’s Egyptian Museum collections to Switzerland, Germany, and the United States.
Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo, received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and has been excavating in Egypt for over thirty years. In addition to his numerous scholarly publications, he is the author of several best-selling popular books, including Secrets from the Sand: My Search for Egypt’s Past (AUC Press, 2003).
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