Stephen E. Thompson,, PhD, is associate director for student life at NSU University School, Davie, Florida. He has taught at Brown University, Boston University, Rhode Island College, Florida Atlantic University, and Brigham Young University.

This book and the series will provide a great introduction to primary sources and critical thinking for advanced high school and college students. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers through upper-division undergraduates.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Hieroglyphs Were a Secret Code Created to Conceal the Wisdom of Ancient Egypt2. The Egyptians Worshipped Animals and Gods with Animal Heads3. Ancient Egyptians Considered the Pharaoh to Be a God4. The Pyramids Were Built as Storehouses, Work Projects for the Egyptian People, or Repositories of Knowledge5. Ancient Egyptian Society Was Heavily Dependent on Slave Labor6. Curses or Booby Traps Protected Egyptian Tombs7. Cleopatra Was Responsible for Mark Antony's Defeat by Octavian (Augustus Caesar)8. The Myths of Osiris, Isis, and Horus Were the Basis for the Accounts of Jesus Found in the Christian New TestamentBibliographyIndex

Stephen E. Thompson,, PhD, is associate director for student life at NSU University School, Davie, Florida. He has taught at Brown University, Boston University, Rhode Island College, Florida Atlantic University, and Brigham Young University.

This book and the series will provide a great introduction to primary sources and critical thinking for advanced high school and college students. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers through upper-division undergraduates.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Hieroglyphs Were a Secret Code Created to Conceal the Wisdom of Ancient Egypt2. The Egyptians Worshipped Animals and Gods with Animal Heads3. Ancient Egyptians Considered the Pharaoh to Be a God4. The Pyramids Were Built as Storehouses, Work Projects for the Egyptian People, or Repositories of Knowledge5. Ancient Egyptian Society Was Heavily Dependent on Slave Labor6. Curses or Booby Traps Protected Egyptian Tombs7. Cleopatra Was Responsible for Mark Antony's Defeat by Octavian (Augustus Caesar)8. The Myths of Osiris, Isis, and Horus Were the Basis for the Accounts of Jesus Found in the Christian New TestamentBibliographyIndex