Howard Carter and the Search for King Tut's Tomb
by Tracey Fern
appears in Children's, History, and Fiction.
A picture book biography about Howard Carter, the codiscoverer of King Tut's tomb in 1922.Howard Carter was obsessed with mummies. He met his first when he was a boy in England and lived near a mansion filled with Egyptian artifacts. Howard dreamed of discovering a mummy himselfespecially a royal mummy in its tomb, complete with all its treasure...
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“Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt offers a breezy guided tour of Egyptian deities, linking gods to the rhythms of daily life — from dawn’s sun to the Nile’s flood. The prose is accessible and descriptive, useful as a quick primer or a source of evocative images for writers and teachers. Its main limitation is its surface-level treatment: it prioritizes readable summaries over deep source discussion, so readers seeking original texts, detailed archaeological evidence, or sustained scholarly argument will likely find it thin.”
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