Ancient Egypt - British Museum Popup

James Putnam

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$29.95

ISBN: 0789309858
Format: Hardcover

Pub Date: 11/01/2003
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Shipping Weight: 2.24lbs

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I am a sucker for pop-up books. I confess. My wife, children, and everyone who’s worked for Greenleaf Press over the years can confirm this. I find them fascinating. They are intricate solutions to design challenges – little machines made out of paper that magically transform from 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional as you turn the pages. I have finally found what I think is the ultimate high-brow pop-up book. After all, it invokes The British Museum on the cover! The Ancient Egypt Pop-Up Book in association with The British Museum. And it really is wonderful.

There is a marvelous pop-up Egyptian boat, complete with a shaduff on-shore, showing how the Egyptians raised water from the Nile for irrigation. There is the warrior-Pharaoh Rameses II in his fighting chariot at the battle of Kadesh. There is a wonderful 3-D depiction of Hatshepsut’s temple at Deir el-Bahri Also included is a 3-D representation of Tut’s gold death-mask, and underneath, cleverly folded, is his mummified head.

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