Silent Images: Women in Pharaonic Egypt Egyptian fiction Heidelberg University

Heidelberg University

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Silent Images: Women in Pharaonic Egypt Egyptian fiction Heidelberg UniversityZahi Hawass This beautifully produced new paperback edition of Silent Images explores a puzzling contradiction: Despite the multitude of artifacts and texts that have come to us from ancient Egypt, much still remains obscure regarding the lives of women. Women were, from the historical perspective, silentbut how should this silence be interpreted? What was the reality of womens lives behind the standardized images? We know that their chief role in