Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt – Everything you wanted to know but forgot to ask

REVIEW BY HILARY WILSON Any author might be daunted by the ambitious subtitle of the ‘Brief Histories’ format, but Campbell Price has risen to the challenge. In little more than 100 smaller-than-A5 text pages, with only three randomly placed photographic images, he explores such topics as the Egyptian people and their environment, their engagement with their gods and attitudes towards death, the power of the king, Egypt’s place on the international political scene, and the written language through which these ideas have been transmitted to the present. Campbell’s approach to introducing three millennia of Egypt’s pharaonic history and culture is refreshingly personal, starti