Ancient Lives: The Story of The Pharoahs’ Tombmakers

First edition, first printing.  xvi, 236pp with several sections of colour plate illustrations.  In blue cloth-covered boards with silver titles on spine. 8vo.  Cloth very slightly rubbed on corners and spine ends else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original illustrated and laminated dust jacket, very slightly rubbed on corners and very slightly bumped at spine tips.  More than 3,000 years ago a village was established at Thebes, on the west bank of the Nile.  Situated amid a barren and arid landscape, it housed the workers who created the tombs of the Pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings  John Romer traces the fortunes of the villagers from the great days of Rameses II through the slow decline of the Egyptian empire, reflected in village life through food shortages and an increasing number of tomb robberies.