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This book fills a significant gap in our knowledge about children and childhood in ancient Egypt, subjects that have not received the attention that they deserve. Using texts, images, and artefacts, Amandine Marshall provides a holistic view of what it was to grow up in ancient Egypt. --Salima Ikram, author of Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt Research into childhood in Egypt is experiencing a renewal to which the patient work of Amandine Marshall comes as a major contribution. Her multidisciplinary approach, cross-referencing text, image, and archaeology, has allowed her to draft the portrait of a society in which children were ever-present in a multiplicity of situations. --Veronique Dasen, University of Fribourg, from the foreword

This book fills a significant gap in our knowledge about children and childhood in ancient Egypt, subjects that have not received the attention that they deserve. Using texts, images, and artefacts, Amandine Marshall provides a holistic view of what it was to grow up in ancient Egypt. --Salima Ikram, The American University in Cairo Research into childhood in Egypt is experiencing a renewal to which the patient work of Amandine Marshall comes as a major contribution. Her multidisciplinary approach, cross-referencing text, image, and archaeology, has allowed her to draft the portrait of a society in which children were ever-present in a multiplicity of situations. --Veronique Dasen, University of Fribourg, from the foreword

"""This book fills a significant gap in our knowledge about children and childhood in ancient Egypt, subjects that have not received the attention that they deserve. Using texts, images, and artefacts, Amandine Marshall provides a holistic view of what it was to grow up in ancient Egypt.""-Salima Ikram, author of Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt ""In the same way we have to parse the stories of women because they are told by men, Marshall unravels the stories of children as communicated by adults. She has rescued childhood from its unwritten and forgotten state, using a variety of evidence to tell us about that most vulnerable time before social identity was formed in ancient Egypt. She wields the sources ably, using what we know, what we don't, and prying into what we could still determine. She doesn't treat childhood as a monolith, instead investigating various categories of child, as male or female, rich or poor, urban or rural.""--Kara Cooney, UCLA ""The child in ancient Egypt, as today, was at the center of the daily life of the Egyptians. Amandine Marshall's book is a unique example of its kind: her insights, meticulous research, and at the same time highly readable text represent a milestone in ancient world childhood studies. Thanks to her excellent study we have a much better understanding of this world, which vanished almost two millennia ago.""--Miroslav Báaacute;rta, Charles University, Prague ""Research into childhood in Egypt is experiencing a renewal to which the patient work of Amandine Marshall comes as a major contribution. Her multidisciplinary approach, cross-referencing text, image, and archaeology, has allowed her to draft the portrait of a society in which children were ever-present in a multiplicity of situations.""--Veronique Dasen, University of Fribourg, from the foreword ""A masterpiece of archaeological scholarship""--Midwest Book Review"

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Amandine Marshall obtained her PhD in Egyptology from the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHSS), Toulouse. She is a research associate with the French Archaeological Mission of Thebes West, a scientific advisor for French television, and the director of two bilingual Egyptological channels, ToutankaTube (for adults) and NefertiTube (for children and teachers). She is the author of twenty-two books and currently resides in France. Colin Clement is a writer and translator who lives in Alexandria, Egypt.

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