Wonderful book of ancient culture.
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Wonderful book, great story, loved reading about ancient China. A little hard to follow the Chinese names at times, but worth the effort.
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Amazing description of the world of ancient Egypt/Rome, with beautiful parallels and references to nowadays ideas. Highly recommend for reading.
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Do you like to learn about different cultures? What is the most interesting culture you know about?

The author, Carole P Roman, is known to me from her 'Captain No Beard', and ' If You Were Me and Lived In' series of books. They are very informational, and bring the world closer to us.

In this book, we learn all the life if someone who was born and brought up in the Mayan civilization. This is a very old society, 1500 years ago, or 572. The Mayan civilization were in Mexico, Guatamela and Belize. Their towns and cities were found on the Yucat&aacute;n Peninsula. This ancient siciety was one of the few that left their legacy by writing their stories. They wrote in stones and leather and whatever could be found. That is one reason we know about them, today.

There were many towns and cities, and the one we learn about, Tikal, was near the rainforest. In this society everything was based on wealth and class rank in the society. If your father was a potter, you grew up to do pottery, nothing else. If you were not wealthy, then you were middle class or lower. You lived in a mud based house, near all of your relatives. When you were 15, you were considered an adult, you got married and had your own home.women were not treated well in this society, and when you read this book you will understand a little bit more about the Mayans.

Adults and children will enjoy this book. It is important to learn about ancient civilizations in order for us to understand our world. The children will have many questions about the Mayans. The illustrations by Paula Tabor are bright, colorful and vivid, depicting all the activities of the Mayans. At the end if this book we find the Mayan contributions to the world, the famous names of the Mayans, and a Glossary of terms. This is a wonderful book that was fascinating to read.

Highly Recommended. prisrob 05-11-17
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It is an excellent book. It details a vast array of cultures,it is very informative.
3250326
the insights into the antiquity of our most ancient culture is a must for all. i am impressed by the way it has pushed back the age of metals
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I  enjoyed reading this book.  It makes you think about how cultures have developed.
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I love the look of this book, the color and lettering has an ancient pagan feel. its chock full of pagan rituals and life as a pagan, one of the best book on paganism that is simplified on who we are and our way of life. this is a book every pagan and non pagan need to have should they wish to do some research on paganism, while this is not the holy grail on paganism its still a lovely book and I love the look, feel and energy of it.
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This is a great book about conquering empires, treasures and palaces excavated in the middle east and surrounding areas and the history of ancient civilization.  The book also has a map of the middle east in it showing ancient names along with the modern names of cities.  I use the map a lot to locate ancient city names.  I would recommend this book to anyone who loves to study history.
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These ancient history books by the Gears are wonderful. I feel like I am actually living in that prehistoric time. I have read all of their books in this series so far in paperback and recommend them to anyone interested in our country's actual past history.
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Great book that has been really helpful to understand the culture.
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The connection with the art of creating medieval manuscripts was presented as being the lifeblood of awareness of one's culture. Fantastic book.
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This book was a very informative on the culture and ideas of the ancient Egyptians. The book is some what based on true events. Fine archeological discoveries are in the making according to the original source that inspired this book. I thought that the first half of the book was more entertaining than the second half. Lord Inter makes an outstanding sinister character. The plot was realistic since both good and the bad people can bite the dust. Taita the slave is full of virtue, though not without some silly ideas concerning freedom and human anatomy. The front cover features a representation of Tutankhamen and his Queen in case anyone is interested, since the book does not mention it.
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This is a very good book for people interested in Indian Artifacts and written by a very knowledge man on the subject I highly recommend the book.
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this is a great book on the women of amarna not only dose it have great detailed pictures but great information to follow
i have wanted to buy this book for a long time but had not had the money to but now that I finally have it has added more to my knowledge of this very interesting period in ancient Egypt history. I highly recommended it to anybody interested in this period of Egypt or in ancient egypt in general you will love it
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The depth of research in a readable book, really helpful findings in ancient cultures. This book should get the historical community thinking.
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The treasures contained in this book represent the stuff of legend and Hollywood movies.  They are history and a great tribute to ancient craftsmanship. It is a wonder that these ancient treasures, including many from Byzantium, were so prefectly preserved to this day and not melted down by invaders.
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This book was fascinating. I learned so much about ancient civilizations. I've passed the book along to my grandson-in-lwe who is very much "into" history particularly BCE history!