Ancient Egypt

It is the great merit of Lionel Casson's treatment that he sees the Egyptians as people who really did live and love and hate and hope and suffer. He presents them honestly as people who possessed no mystic and lost lore, but who achieved great things by honest effort and, in other respects, fell short of greatness, and who are thus understandable to us in our groping days. John A. Wilson. 192pp.