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Learning To Draw & Drawing To Learn is an innovative new art and history series combining fun drawing projects themed around ancient civilisations with gripping, fascinating information about these vanished cultures. Readers of all ages can follow the step-by-step instructions and detailed, stunning illustrations to practise their foundational art skills and learn about the history of the world. Drawing the Ancient Egyptians is packed with projects...
9) Pharaohs: illustrated history of the great rulers of Ancient Egypt from the Old Kingdom to Cleopatra
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Arranged by dynastic period, Pharaohs offers a compact history of the reign of god-kings, from Menes, who united the north and south kingdoms, to the Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra, who was defeated along with her lover Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium (31 BCE) by imperial Rome. Along the way the reader will learn about the Great Pyramid constructed by Khufu, the last of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world; Queen Hatshepsut, a rare female pharaoh...
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In Intimate Outsiders, the art historian Mary Roberts brings to light a body of harem imagery that was created through a dynamic process of cultural exchange. Roberts focuses on images produced by nineteenth-century European artists and writers who were granted access to harems in the urban centres of Istanbul and Cairo. Invited guests, these Europeans were "intimate outsiders" within the women's quarters of elite Ottoman households. At the same time,...