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Djekhy & Son: Doing Business in Ancient Egypt

Djekhy & Son: Doing Business in Ancient Egypt

Paperback

EconomicsAncient EgyptGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9774165691
ISBN13: 9789774165696
Publisher: Amer Univ In Cairo Pr
Published: May 15 2013
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Djekhy & Son, two businessmen living 2500 years ago in the densely populated neighborhoods built around the great temple of Amun at Karnak, worked as funerary service providers in the necropolis on the western bank of the Nile. They were also successful agricultural entrepreneurs, cultivating
flax and grain. In 1885, the German Egyptologist August Eisenlohr acquired a unique collection of papyri that turned out to be Djekhy's archive of mainly legal documents. Using this rich trove of evidence, augmented by many other sources, the author has painted a vivid picture of life in ancient

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