“Tourism and Travel in Ancient Egypt,” a new book written by Mohammed Ahmed, a tourism specialist, presents investigations on one of the ancient Egyptian mysterious topics, which has been unsatisfactory discovered and researched, is related to the matter of “travels in ancient Egypt”. The book is published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing . It meets the interests not only for the Egyptologists, tourism and history scholars, but also for all the human beings and to a broader readership scale in terms of their fondness of comparing and recognizing the differences and similarities between travel in ancient times and now.
The book proposes full detailed descriptions on the travels of ancient Egyptians and considers being a factual journey through the history. It offers the following benefits:
- A comprehensive literature relating to the topic of ancient Egyptian travels.
- Adduce various examples of travels in ancient Egypt.
- Discover new aspects of the daily life in ancient Egypt.
- Elaborate how ancient Egyptians traveled in their epoch and answer the previous questions.
- Discuss the analysis of the research findings.
- Discuss the similarities of ancient Egyptian travels and today.
Furthermore, by reading this book, the Readers will get out of it the following advantages in terms of learning the answers of certain puzzling questions as follows:
- How did the ancient Egyptians travel in this quaint old land thousands of years ago?
- How were they transferred?
- What sort of transportation did they take?
- For how long did they go?
- What kind of destinations did they visit?
- For which purposes did they travel?
- How far did ancient Egyptians travel?
- What is the idea behind ancient Egyptian’s travel?
- Are there any certain concepts that make them motivated to be engaged in travel activities?
- Did ancient Egyptians have a criteria to follow or preparations to do?
- Did the pharaohs travel in a form of groups or individuals?
- Can we describe the ancient Egyptians travel as tourism?
- Which varieties of tourism did the ancient Egyptians have compared to what mankind has today?
The book is also written to present a solid, practical solution to answer the above questions, based on theoretical and practical fieldwork. The author attempts to explore, in depth, the travel approach in ancient Egypt. The aims of the research lay also the main motivation which encourages him to select the topic of this book as well as to gather his both tourism and Egyptology background, academic and professional experiences into one book. To reach these objectives, the work investigates the purpose of travel in ancient Egypt, as well as presenting analyses of the motives that were depicted on the Egyptian tombs and temples scenes.
CONTACT
Mohammed Ahmed: myehia80@hotmail.com
BOOK INFORMATION
- Title: Tourism and Travel in Ancient Egypt
- Author: Mohammed Yehia Z. Ahmed, Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-659-88083-4.
- Book Language: English
- Number of Pages: 252 Pages.
- Published on: 2016-04-27
Tourism and Travel in Ancient Egypt 