An Egyptian Princess: A Romance of the Persian Conquest

· Aeneas Press
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Egypt under Amasis, 525 BC, on the eve of the Persian conquest: a Greek merchant's daughter is sent as a bride to the court, and the intrigue that follows brings Cambyses's army down the Nile. Ebers was a working Egyptologist — he found the medical papyrus that still carries his name — and wrote his novels to teach the period; every ceremony and title in it is sourced. Sixty plates of paintings by David Roberts and Lawrence Alma-Tadema carry the ancient world that Ebers reconstructed, from Cleopatra's Alexandria to the Roman ruins that later generations of artists imagined.
Egypt under Amasis, 525 BC, on the eve of the Persian conquest: a Greek merchant's daughter is sent as a bride to the court, and the intrigue that follows brings Cambyses's army down the Nile. Ebers was a working Egyptologist — he found the medical papyrus that still carries his name — and wrote ...

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Georg Ebers (1837–1898) was a German Egyptologist and novelist. In 1870 he was appointed professor of Egyptology at the University of Leipzig, and he is known for his discovery of the Ebers Papyrus as well as a series of historical novels set in ancient Egypt, including An Egyptian Princess, Uarda, and Cleopatra.
Georg Ebers (1837–1898) was a German Egyptologist and novelist. In 1870 he was appointed professor of Egyptology at the University of Leipzig, and he is known for his discovery of the Ebers Papyrus as well as a series of historical novels set in ancient Egypt, including An Egyptian Princess, Uard...

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