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By Naguib Mahfouz

From Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz: the 3 marvelous novels—published in an omnibus version for the 1st time—that shape an ancient-Egyptian counterpart to his well-known Cairo Trilogy

Mahfouz reaches again hundreds of thousands of years to convey us stories from his homeland's majestic early history—tales of the Egyptian the Aristocracy and of struggle, star-crossed love, and the divine rule of the pharoahs. In Khufu's Wisdom, the mythical Fourth Dynasty monarch faces the possibility of the tip of his rule and the prospect that his daughter has fallen in love with the fellow prophesied to be his successor. Rhadopis of Nubia is the unforgettable tale of the charismatic younger Pharoah Merenra II and the ravishing courtesan Rhadopis, whose love affair makes them the envy of all Egyptian society. And Thebes at War tells the epic tale of Egypt's victory over the Asiatic foreigners who ruled the rustic for 2 centuries.

Three Novels of historical Egypt provides us a stunning tapestry of old Egypt and reminds us of the amazing artistry of Naguib Mahfouz.

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20 In other cases, the upper edge of a tablet was often inscribed so that, when the tablets were standing like file cards, one could read a date, sometimes a summary of the transaction recorded, and occasionally the name of the scribe responsible. At Mari in Syria, small tablets marked with a red ochre stripe seem to represent economic texts, the contents of which had been noted and entered into a larger, summary ledger text. 21 Another archival device which should be mentioned is an intrinsic one, namely tablet shape.

10 In spite of much investigation elsewhere, it still seems true to say that writing was invented, not broadly in southern Mesopotamia, but very specifically at the site of Uruk, prompting one Sumerologist to speak of 'an' inventor, literatus Sumericus Urukeus, rather than a vague cohort of anonymous early scribes. 11 As many scholars have emphasised in recent years, 12 with an estimated size of over 200 ha. by the late fourth millennium BC, Uruk surpassed all other early urban centres in the region in areal extent and most probably population concentration, and it was here that the pre-conditions for the emergence of writing were most clearly in evidence.

37 But now it is time to turn back towards the west for I have much business to transact if I am to pursue my passion for book trading and 1 need to locate the warehouses in the Emporium and all the ship moorings. Right at the edge of the Harbour stretch the Neoria, the shipyards, which extend as far as the Heptastadium, which is a narrow causeway resting on piles driven into the sea-bed. This man made land bridge is seven stadia (I,400 metres) in length (hence the name Heptastadium) and divides the natural harbour into two separate harbours, the Great Harbour and the Eunostos, and provides easy access to the Island of Pharos.

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