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Leonard Cottrell was born 21 May 1913 at Tettenhall, Wolverhampton to William and Beatrice Cottrell née Tootell. His father inspired an interest in history at the age of ten.
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This book, written by one the masters of popular history, is for the interested amateur and reconstructs every day life in the Egypt of 1500 BCE. The central character, a real person whose tomb still exists, is Vizier Rekhmire. You meet with him and go with him on his official duties. This absorbing and entertaining book takes the reader on a fascinating tour of the world of ancient Egypt, providing an overview of Egyptian history, the City of the Dead, Thebes and the Valley of the Kings, the building of the pyramids, and such important figuresand places as Akhenaten and Amarna. It looks at the life and times of the Ancient Egyptians, including the work of craftsmen and labourers, hunting, and surgical procedures and provides a full bibliography and lists of Egyptian dynasties.
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From the Scottish lowlands to the chalk cliffs of Dover, the Romans have left many impressive traces of their 500-year occupation of mainland Britain. Their roads criss-cross the landscape, & the names of their towns survive in modern cities. This is a personal account of the author's 3,500-mile journey around the best-known ancient sites & highways. In addition to describing the monuments & excavations accessible to present-day visitors, he provides a scholarly & imaginative reconstruction of Roman life & culture, together with 8 maps & 58 photos of places & artifacts. A table of the chief historical events charts the rise & fall of Roman influence.
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Subtitled 'A Journey in Search of the Mycenaeans'. Author seeks the realities behind Homeric epic and the myths of the pre-history of Greece. He presents his theories about the Mycenaean civilization and its' bloody and violent end.
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-How the secret resting place of the Lost Pharaohs was discovered -How and why the Pyramids were built -The incredible Tutankhamun discoveries -The finding of the Rosetta Stone.
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The author tells what is acutally known abut these women, but shows as well the fascinating process by which this information has been extracted from a few scattered clues. He is the author of 26 books, including five on Ancient Ebyptioan history and archaeology which have been widely praised.
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Leonard Cottrell was born 21 May 1913 at Tettenhall, Wolverhampton to William and Beatrice Cottrell née Tootell. His father inspired an interest in history at the age of ten.
Educated King Edward VI’s Grammar School, Birmingham, England.
The majority of his books were popularisations of the archaeology of ancient Egypt. At King Edward's Grammar School, Birmingham, Leonard was only interested in history and English, reading widely. In the 1930s, Cottrell toured the English countryside on his motorcycle, visiting prehistoric stone circles, burial mounds of the Bronze Age, medieval and Renaissance monuments.
After gaining experience writing articles on historical subjects for motoring magazines, he wrote his first documentary for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1937. Leonard was rejected by the RAF during World War II, for medical reasons, but he joined the BBC in 1942 and they stationed him, in 1944, in the Mediterranean with the RAF as a war correspondent. His experiences as a war correspondent formed the basis of his book.
He worked at the BBC until 1960, when he resigned and moved to a house overlooking the estuary of the River Kent in Westmoreland, Cumbria, where he stayed for the rest of his life, writing. He was the editor of the Concise Encyclopaedia of Archaeology (1965). He had had no children by either marriage.
Leonard Cottrell died on 6 October 1974.
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(The Great Invasion)
(Enemy of Rome)
Member Egypt Exploration Society, Hellenic Society, Roman Society, Institute Archaeol. Great Britain.; Clubs: Savile, London.
Married Doris Swain, May 1940 (divorced June 1960). Married second, Diana Randolph, December 1965.