The book Ancient Egypt, by David Silverman, provides an overview summary of Egypt throughout ancient and present times. The author offers several different theories as to how the function of monuments and the history behind them. Silverman provides strong, yet not argumentative evidence, that the monuments had several functions in Egyptian life. Compared to other Eastern regions, Egypt began its civilization quite late. Egypt was governed by many different kings and pharaohs. The kings and …showed first 75 words of 910 total…

…showed last 75 words of 910 total…could theorize about its relevance to religion, life and death of ancient Egyptian. The curse of pharaohs, the preservative powers of pyramids, the extraterrestrial origins of Egyptian culture, are some of the themes that still thread their way through literature for the mass market. Egyptian culture has thousands of familiar visual cues that make it spring to life with coherent character unequalled by any other civilizations, yet its full depth still remain to be discovered.