About the book: 1975 / It has long been the custom that since childhood we have become acquainted with Greek history, Greek myths, and the exploits of Spartacus. And Egypt, the most ancient Egypt, with its everyday life, with its highest culture, with its way of life, its “air,” seemed to remain beyond the distant horizon. Mathieu took us to Ancient Egypt. She told how the Egyptian boy spent his day, about the house made of clay in which he lived, about the mallets that he received from his school teacher. She told me about the hieroglyphs that he wrote with a reed stick on shards and on papyrus, about strange letters that resembled drawings. The story recreates a world that has left many monuments of material and spiritual culture. This is how pictures of the distant past come to life.