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Steve Donoghue’s posts from the original Open Letters Monthly Archives.

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March 16, 2015

Book Review: Akhenaten & The Origins of Monotheism

March 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The rebel pharaoh who instituted a radical new monotheism gets a highly-detailed and revisionist investigation

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akhenaten & the origins of monotheism, ancient egypt, history, james hoffmeier, March 2015, open letters weekly 2015
October 19, 2014

Book Review: Desert God

October 19, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Wilbur Smith continues the adventures of his super-eunuch Taita in his latest novel set in ancient Egypt

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October 19, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
ancient egypt, desert god, October 2014, open letters weekly, wilbur smith
October 18, 2014

Book Review: The Woman Who Would Be King

October 18, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

3000 years ago, a capable, enigmatic woman named Hatshepsut ruled Egypt for over twenty years; a spirited new biography tells her story

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October 18, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
ancient egypt, hatshepsut, kara cooney, October 2014, open letters weekly, the woman who would be king
July 05, 2014

Book Review: The Visitors

July 05, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

In Sally Beauman's new novel, a young girl sent to Egypt for her health becomes entangled in dramatic events surrounding Howard Carter's discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb ...

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ancient egypt, fiction, July 2014, open letters weekly, sally beauman, the visitors
July 13, 2013

Book Review: The Shadow King

July 13, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

After an unearthly quiet of nearly three thousand years, he's been the idol of the world for nearly a century - he's the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, and Jo Marchant makes his old story new again

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July 13, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
ancient egypt, archeology, jo marchant, July 2013, open letters weekly, the shadow king, tutankhamun
November 19, 2012

Book Review: The Pharaoh

November 19, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The calm-eyed gold-plated absolute rulers of ancient Egypt, the Pharaohs in all their splendor, are brought to life in a revealing new history.

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November 19, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
ancient egypt, ancient history, garry shaw, November 2012, the pharaoh
April 23, 2012

Book Review: Dawn of Egyptian Art

April 23, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A sumptuous catalogue of the earliest artwork from ancient Egypt

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April 23, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
ancient egypt, April 2012, art, dawn of egyptian art, diana craig patch, metropolitan museum of art
March 15, 2012

Book Review: Tutankhamen

March 15, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Any new study of Tutankhamen faces an array of obstacles - some more familiar than others.

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March 15, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
ancient egypt, ancient history, joyce tyldesley, March 2012, tutankhamen
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