OUR WORLD
REVIEW
THE SOUL OF
ANCIENT EGYPT
Restoring the Spiritual
Engine of the World
by Robert Bauval and Ahmmed Osman
T
This fascinating book provides
an overview of the history of
Egypt across the last 7000 years,
illuminating the dynamics of its
shifting fortunes.
T
he authors are two expatriate
Egyptians, one a Christian and the
other a Muslim, who bring a rich
and authoritative perspective to
the turbulent tides of Egyptian
history, from the time of Isis to the
bewildering rise of ISIS, putting it
all in context. Looking at the cover and the tagline,
I kept passing on it, thinking it was about the iconography of this ancient civilization. What I found
was something far more riveting - a narrative of the
tangled streams of politics and power, religion and
cultural identity, national pride and humiliation,
arrogance and corruption across the millennia.
Until recent times, Egyptians had lived in harmony with the rhythms of the River Nile, whose annual flood resulted in fertile crops and engendered
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