{"product_id":"a-history-of-art-in-ancient-egypt-volume-1-perrot","title":"A History of Art in Ancient Egypt  Volume 1","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBy Georges Perrot\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe successful interpretation of the ancient writings of Egypt  Chaldæa  and Persia  which has distinguished our times  makes it necessary that the history of antiquity should be rewritten. Documents that for thousands of years lay hidden beneath the soil  and inscriptions which  like those of Egypt and Persia  long offered themselves to the gaze of man merely to excite his impotent curiosity  have now been deciphered and made to render up their secrets for the guidance of the historian. By the help of those strings of hieroglyphs and of cuneiform characters  illustrated by paintings and sculptured reliefs  we are enabled to separate the truth from the falsehood  the chaff from the wheat  in the narratives of the Greek writers who busied themselves with those nations of Africa and Asia which preceded their own in the ways of civilization. Day by day  as new monuments have been discovered and more certain methods of reading their inscriptions elaborated  we have added to the knowledge left us by Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus  to our acquaintance with those empires on the Euphrates and the Nile which were already in old age when the Greeks were yet struggling to emerge from their primitive barbarism.","brand":"Lushena Books","offers":[{"title":"PAPERBACK","offer_id":52437623046424,"sku":"9781639239511","price":53.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"HARDCOVER","offer_id":52437623079192,"sku":"9781639239610","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/8203\/8296\/files\/71Wu1Oe7t3L._SL1360.jpg?v=1784923692","url":"https:\/\/lushenabooksinc.com\/products\/a-history-of-art-in-ancient-egypt-volume-1-perrot","provider":"Lushena","version":"1.0","type":"link"}