| p>This article is a review of Red Land, Black Land: | | | | listener will be surprised at the depth of the subject. |
| Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz (the audio | | | | The book also contains a good number of extended |
| version). I will give my thoughts on the author, a brief | | | | stories from authentic Egyptian texts. |
| overview of the contents and an overall evaluation. | | | | As an overall appraisal, this text is absolutely fantastic. I |
| I had just finished listening to Temples, Tombs and | | | | listen to a lot of audio books because I commute. And |
| Hieroglyphs by the same author and was impressed | | | | admittedly, I do not finish a number of them because |
| with Mertz's writing. So, I decided to give Daily Life in | | | | either the material is boring or the reader is terrible. |
| Ancient Egypt a chance (anyone who has searched | | | | Neither of these is the case for this text. Mertz really |
| knows there are not a lot of audio books on Ancient | | | | makes Daily Life in Ancient Egypt come alive. Other |
| Egypt available for download). It is easy to tell that she | | | | texts on ancient history explain how remote and |
| writes from experience and does so with a great deal | | | | different people of the past were; however, one |
| of humor. She talks about her time at the Oriental | | | | finishes this text feeling that the Ancient Egyptians |
| Institute and of her many trips to Egypt. This certainly | | | | were real people with many of the same concerns |
| makes you feel that the author is competent to speak | | | | that we in the modern world have. Mertz uses an |
| about her subject matter. | | | | excellent illustration in that we view the Ancient |
| The contents of the book are not technical so this | | | | Egyptians like the mummies that we see in museums. |
| makes the book accessible to anyone. It covers topics | | | | Yet she takes these mummies and puts the flesh and |
| ranging from geography to religion to love to clothing. | | | | bones back on them. This really is an enjoyable book |
| One might think that something like Egyptian clothing | | | | on Ancient Egypt. |
| would not be very interesting, but I think any reader | | | | |