Come swiftly to your love;: Love poems of ancient Egypt (Hallmark editions)
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Ancient Egypt is often thought of as a gloomy society obsessed with death. But a collection of papyri, dating to the latter half of the New Kingdom (ca. 1305-1080 B.C.), presents us with delicate love... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0875291759
ISBN13:9780875291758
Release Date:January 1971
Publisher:Hallmark
Length:44 Pages
Weight:0.38 lbs.
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The more things change...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
...the more they stay the same. Boys moping because the girl of their dreams doesn't know they exist, girls positively distraught because their parents don't approve of their one true love... so what makes these poems special (besides their simple beauty)? They were translated directly from 3,000 year old Egyptian hieroglyphs! Read these poems, share them with someone special, and I'm sure you'll both agree - as Johnny Cash once said "There's nothing new under the sun".
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