The Book of the Pharaohs
Vernus, Pascal / Yoyotte, Jean
The Book of the Pharaohs" is an encyclopaedia made up of short essays on the pharaohs themselves, as well as on places, dynasties, personages, subjects and themes relating to the kings and their rule. Entries range from "Adoratrices" (priestesses of Hathor, the Egyptian Aphrodite, whose role was to arouse the erotic impulse in the creator gods) and "Amarna" (the capital created by the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten) to "Scorpion" (who ruled before ...