The Boy Pharaoh: Tutankhamen

Noel Streatfeild writes: 'The more you read the more you realise that almost nothing is known about Tutankhamen. What I have attempted to bring him alive for children up to twelve years form what sketchy knowledge there is.'

Beginning with a vivid picture of life in Egypt over three thousand years ago she projects the training and daily occupations which the young Pharaoh must have known; goes on to the robberies of the tombs and finally to the story of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon.

Miss Streatfeild's lively sense of history and great enthusiasm for her subject have resulted in an exceptionally beautiful book for young readers. Seventeen colour plates and many monochrome from the original Michael Joseph/Connoisseur volumes are included.