Barbara Mertz

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September 29, 1927 in The United States

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History, Egyptology, Mystery & Thrillers

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Real name of Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels Barbara G. Mertz studied at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, receiving an M.A. in 1950 and a Ph.D. in Egyptology in 1952. In 1950 she married Richard Mertz and had two children, Elizabeth and Peter. She was divorced in 1969. A past president of American Crime Writers League, she presently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of KMT, A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt. She is also a member of the Egypt Exploration Society and the James Henry Breasted Circle of the Oriental Institute. Under her own name she is the author of Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs, A Popular history of Ancient Egypt and Red Land, Black Land, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. Under her pseudonym as Barba...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 2,043 ratings · 120 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt 3.98 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 1964 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt 4.18 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 1967 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Amelia Peabody's Egypt by Elizabeth Peters, Dennis Forbes, Kristen Whitbread 4.05 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt [With Headphones] by Barbara Mertz, Lorna Raver (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Night Train to Memphis (Vicky Bliss, #5) by Elizabeth Peters (pseud.), Barbara Mertz 4.00 avg rating — 1,628 ratings — published 1994 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Naked Once More by Elizabeth Peters (pseud.), Barbara Mertz 3.74 avg rating — 896 ratings — published 1989 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Snake, the Crocodile & the Dog (Amelia Peabody #7) by Elizabeth Peters (pseud.), Barbara Mertz 4.10 avg rating — 3,788 ratings — published 1992 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Hippopotamus Pool (Amelia Peabody, #8) by Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Mertz 4.05 avg rating — 3,625 ratings — published 1996 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Two Thousand Years in Rome by Richard Mertz, Barbara Mertz 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1968	My rating:

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