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Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 80 p. — (Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context). This Element seeks to characterize the scribal culture in ancient Egypt through its textual acts, which were of prime importance in this culture: writing, list-making, drawing, and copying. Drawing upon texts, material objects, and archeological evidence, this Element will touch upon main themes...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2016. — 280 p. Coptic contributions to the formative theological debates of Christianity have long been recognized. Less well known are other, equally valuable, Coptic contributions to the transmission and preservation of technical and scientific knowledge, and a full understanding of how Egypt’s Copts survived and interacted with the...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2016. — 280 p. Coptic contributions to the formative theological debates of Christianity have long been recognized. Less well known are other, equally valuable, Coptic contributions to the transmission and preservation of technical and scientific knowledge, and a full understanding of how Egypt’s Copts survived and interacted with the...
Brill, 2022. — 216 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 128). One group of ancient Egyptian drawings has captured the curiosity of scholars and laypeople alike: images of animals acting like people. They illustrate animal fables originally from a larger mythological narrative, making them an integral part of New Kingdom Thebes’s religious environment. This book...
Equinox Publishing, 2013. — 315 p. This novel work uses case studies of both familiar and unfamiliar materials, expanding consideration of ancient Egyptian elite culture to encompass lived experience and exploitation of the natural environment. The opening chapter sets out the conceptual ground for the analyses that follow, arguing that the relatively ephemeral activities under...
Foreword by Kathy Zurek-Doule. — The American University in Cairo Press, 2021. — 224 p. Egypt has a particular longue durée, a continuity of preservation in deep time, not seen in other parts of the world. Over the centuries, ancient buildings have been adopted for purposes that differed from the original. Temple sites have been transformed into places of worship for new...
Foreword by Kathy Zurek-Doule. — The American University in Cairo Press, 2021. — 224 p. Egypt has a particular longue durée, a continuity of preservation in deep time, not seen in other parts of the world. Over the centuries, ancient buildings have been adopted for purposes that differed from the original. Temple sites have been transformed into places of worship for new...
Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2020. — 451 p. Notre étude porte sur la symbolique du lion sur les supports mobiliers égyptiens. Nous avons pris en compte les objets et les représentations des supports mobiliers à thématique léonine exceptionnelle. Nous nous sommes penchés sur l’identité des lions (leur sexe et nature) et sur les raisons de leur présence. À travers une...
Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2020. — 1-362 p. Notre étude porte sur la symbolique du lion sur les supports mobiliers égyptiens. Nous avons pris en compte les objets et les représentations des supports mobiliers à thématique léonine exceptionnelle. Nous nous sommes penchés sur l’identité des lions (leur sexe et nature) et sur les raisons de leur présence. À travers une...
Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2020. — 363-738 p. Notre étude porte sur la symbolique du lion sur les supports mobiliers égyptiens. Nous avons pris en compte les objets et les représentations des supports mobiliers à thématique léonine exceptionnelle. Nous nous sommes penchés sur l’identité des lions (leur sexe et nature) et sur les raisons de leur présence. À travers...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2019. — 416 p. Self-presentation is the oldest and most common component of ancient Egyptian high culture. It arose in the context of private tomb records, where the character and role of an individual - invariably a well-to-do non-royal elite official or administrator - were presented purposefully: published by inscription and image, to...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2019. — 416 p. Self-presentation is the oldest and most common component of ancient Egyptian high culture. It arose in the context of private tomb records, where the character and role of an individual - invariably a well-to-do non-royal elite official or administrator - were presented purposefully: published by inscription and image, to...
Pen & Sword History, 2020. — 168 p. Focussing on Thebes in 1360 BCE, How to Survive in Ancient Egypt is the ultimate guide to living in ancient Egypt including all of the religious beliefs and sites to see. Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Egypt and you had to start a new life there. How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? Where would...
Amberley Publishing, 2015. — 288 p. In modern-day media, depictions of ancient Egyptian society are of a highly sexualised, lustful culture, but how accurate are these depictions of a people so shrouded in mystery and legend that it is sometimes hard to tell truth from fiction? In this fascinating and intimate insight into ancient Egyptian sex and sexuality, Charlotte Booth...
Revised edition — Propylaeum, 2020. — 448 S. — (Ägyptologische Studien Leipzig 2). Visuelles Erzählen ist ein Phänomen, das in den letzten Jahrzehnten verstärkt in den Focus interdisziplinärer Forschung gerückt ist. Die Arbeit widmet sich dem bildlichen Erzählen im alten Ägypten und unter überträgt dabei etablierte Erzähltheorien auf altägyptische Bildquellen mit dem Ziel, eine...
Brill, 2020. — 840 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 110). In Three Hundred Years of Death: The Egyptian Funerary Industry in the Ptolemaic Period , Maria Cannata provides a detailed survey of the organisation of the necropolises and the funerary workers, as well as their role in the practical aspects of the mummification, funeral, burial, and mortuary cult of...
Routledge, 2006. — 126 p. This book provides an original treatment of the concept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeks to examine the dimensions of nefer , the term used to describe the good and the beautiful, within the context of ordinary life. Because the book is based upon original research on ancient Egypt it opens up space for a review of the aesthetics of other...
Routledge, 2006. — 126 p. This book provides an original treatment of the concept of good and beauty in ancient Egypt. It seeks to examine the dimensions of nefer , the term used to describe the good and the beautiful, within the context of ordinary life. Because the book is based upon original research on ancient Egypt it opens up space for a review of the aesthetics of other...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. — 252 S. — (Materiale Textkulturen 32). Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be discovered. This volume highlights some of the...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. — 252 S. — (Materiale Textkulturen 32). Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be discovered. This volume highlights some of the...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. — 328 p. — ISBN-10: 0801861993, ISBN-13: 978-0801861994 In 1887, a peasant woman stumbled across a 3,000-year-old trove of cuneiform tablets in the ruins at Amarna, in Upper Egypt. The find, mostly letters from foreign kings to the Egyptian court, was part of the palace archive of the mysterious, sun-worshipping Pharaoh Akhenaten. The...
American University in Cairo Press, 2022. — 204 p. Why do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals broken? Although the Late Antiquity period appears to have been one of the major moments of large-scale vandalism against pagan monuments, various contexts bear witness to several phases of reuse, modification, or mutilation of statues throughout and...
Routledge, 2005. — 608 p. In this beautifully illustrated and closely argued book, a completely updated and much expanded third edition of his magisterial survey, Curl describes in lively and stimulating prose the numerous revivals of the Egyptian style from Antiquity to the present day. Drawing on a wealth of sources, his pioneering and definitive work analyzes the remarkable...
Routledge, 2005. — 608 p. In this beautifully illustrated and closely argued book, a completely updated and much expanded third edition of his magisterial survey, Curl describes in lively and stimulating prose the numerous revivals of the Egyptian style from Antiquity to the present day. Drawing on a wealth of sources, his pioneering and definitive work analyzes the remarkable...
Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2018. — 876 p. The ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books are among the most extensive religious texts from pharaonic civilization and present humanity's oldest surviving attempts to provide a scientific map of the unseen realms beyond the visible cosmos. First attested during the middle of the second millennium BCE, the Netherworld Books decorate...
Liverpool University Press, 2023. — 328 p. Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt provides a new perspective on healthcare and healing treatments in Egypt from the Predynastic to the Roman periods. Rather than concentrating exclusively on diseases and medical conditions as evidenced in ancient sources, it provides a ‘people-focused’ perspective, asking what it was like...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 288 p. This collection of papers by leading international experts on the subject of ancient Egyptian coffins, builds on a project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, to study and record in detail its collection. Papers address a series of topics including: the development of coffins in antiquity, including iconographic and text-based studies, providing...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 288 p. This collection of papers by leading international experts on the subject of ancient Egyptian coffins, builds on a project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, to study and record in detail its collection. Papers address a series of topics including: the development of coffins in antiquity, including iconographic and text-based studies, providing...
New Haven (CU) - London: Yale University Press, 1992. — 240 p. — (Sport and History Series). Two thousand years before the first Olympic games were held in ancient Greece, sports played a significant cultural and social role in ancient Egypt. This book, written by one of the world's leading authorities on Egyptian sport, is the most thorough treatment of the athletic and...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2017. — 278 p. Growing up in Egypt’s Nile Delta, Wafaa El Saddik was fascinated by the magnificent pharaonic monuments from an early age, and as a student she dreamed of conducting excavations herself and working in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. At a time when Egyptology was dominated by men, especially those with close connections to the...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2017. — 278 p. Growing up in Egypt’s Nile Delta, Wafaa El Saddik was fascinated by the magnificent pharaonic monuments from an early age, and as a student she dreamed of conducting excavations herself and working in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. At a time when Egyptology was dominated by men, especially those with close connections to the...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 448 p. This volume reconstructs the history of documentary practice in pharaonic Egypt from the early Old Kingdom to the major administrative changes imposed by the colonizing regimes of the Graeco-Roman period. Relating administrative and legal practice to the physical practicalities of the media used for writing, and through the close reading...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2021. — 94 p. Mut was an important deity perhaps best known as the consort of Amun-Re and the mother of Khonsu, but her earlier and far more independent role was as the daughter of the sun god, much akin to Hathor. Like Nekhbet and Wadjet and the other lioness goddesses (referred to as Sekhmet) she was the "Eye of Re", who could be both...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2021. — 94 p. Mut was an important deity perhaps best known as the consort of Amun-Re and the mother of Khonsu, but her earlier and far more independent role was as the daughter of the sun god, much akin to Hathor. Like Nekhbet and Wadjet and the other lioness goddesses (referred to as Sekhmet) she was the "Eye of Re", who could be both...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2021. — 94 p. Mut was an important deity perhaps best known as the consort of Amun-Re and the mother of Khonsu, but her earlier and far more independent role was as the daughter of the sun god, much akin to Hathor. Like Nekhbet and Wadjet and the other lioness goddesses (referred to as Sekhmet) she was the "Eye of Re", who could be both...
University of Texas Press, 1992. — 141 p. One of the best connoisseurs of ancient Egyptian literature, and ancient Egyptian poetry in particular, presents a volume of some of the most beautiful love songs from the Nile Valley during the New Kingdom era. A special advantage of this edition, apart from the excellent translation and strict adherence to the authentic text, is its...
Peeters, 2022. — 126 p. The first in a series of volumes generated by the British Museum's Amara West Research Project, this explores the use of pigments and the experience of colour in the town founded around 1300BC as a centre of the pharaonic administration of Upper Nubia (Kush). Combining scientific analyses, archaeological fieldwork, and modern ethnographic perspectives,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 352 p. At the end of the 19th century W.M.F. Petrie excavated a series of assemblages at the New Kingdom Fayum site of Gurob. These deposits, known in the Egyptological literature as 'Burnt Groups', were composed by several and varied materials (mainly Egyptian and imported pottery, faience, stone and wood vessels, jewellery), all deliberately...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 912 p. - The first comprehensive edition of an important ancient Egyptian religious text using all known textual witnesses, including several newly-discovered - Includes synoptic hieroglyphic transcription showing the different versions side by side, and an introduction placing the spells in wider historical, religious, and sociological context...
Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900. — 440 p. — (Graeco-Roman memoirs 3). The present volume is a record of two years' excavations in the Fayum, the first in 1895-96 conducted by D. G. Hogarth and B. P. Grenfell, who were joined subsequently by A. S. Hunt ; the second in 1898-99 by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. With regard to the division of work among the editors, Part I...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 139 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 46).
This book publishes a previously unknown collection of hieratic ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The texts include a broad range of genres, including wisdom literature, religious hymns, magical texts, medical recipes, private letters, administrative notes, scribal...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 354 p. — ISBN 978-0198727538 In seventeenth-century Europe the Copts, or the Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology. Their language was thought to lead to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs and their Church to retain traces of early Christian practices as...
Brill, 2018. — 308 p. Writing is not the only notation system used in literate societies. Some visual communication systems are very similar to writing, but work differently. Identity marks are typical examples of such systems, and this book presents a particularly well-documented marking system used in Pharaonic Egypt as an exemplary case. From Single Sign to Pseudo-Script is...
Oxbow Books, 2012. — 208 p. Living with the Dead presents a detailed analysis of ancestor worship in Egypt, using a diverse range of material, both archaeological and anthropological, to examine the relationship between the living and the dead. Iconography and terminology associated with the deceased reveal indistinct differences between the blessedness and malevolence and that...
Oxbow Books, 2012. — 208 p. Living with the Dead presents a detailed analysis of ancestor worship in Egypt, using a diverse range of material, both archaeological and anthropological, to examine the relationship between the living and the dead. Iconography and terminology associated with the deceased reveal indistinct differences between the blessedness and malevolence and that...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2020. — 240 p. The most detailed set of studies ever on all aspects of one of the most beautifully decorated Egyptian non-royal tombs. This lavishly illustrated book is the culmination of a project to document and conserve the tomb of Menna, one of the most beautiful and complex painted tombs of the ancient Egyptian necropolis at Luxor....
The American University in Cairo Press, 2020. — 240 p. The most detailed set of studies ever on all aspects of one of the most beautifully decorated Egyptian non-royal tombs. This lavishly illustrated book is the culmination of a project to document and conserve the tomb of Menna, one of the most beautiful and complex painted tombs of the ancient Egyptian necropolis at Luxor....
INSTAP Academic Press, 2022. — 156 p. This volume is a catalog of the ancient Egyptian imports and Egyptianizing artifacts found in 1962 during the excavation of a cave near Tsoutsouros (ancient Inatos), Crete, Greece. The cave was a sanctuary dedicated to the Minoan and Greek goddess Eileithyia. The Aegyptiaca of the Minoan and Mycenaean eras on Crete signify the political and...
Thames and Hudson, 1996. — 245 p. Animals of all kinds were hugely important to the ancient Egyptians, in their daily lives and work, in their leisure and religious practices. Some animals served as sources of food, others provided labour in the farmyards and field, some were quarry in the hunt, others were companions at home, and a great many enjoyed vital associations with...
Oxbow Books, 2023. — 222 p. The aim of this study is easy to define: to provide a systematic survey of all the bird life depicted by the ancient Egyptians in art and hieroglyphic writing, to sketch the birds' role in secular and religious spheres, and to attempt to compare their present-day distribution range with that in the time of the Pharaohs, based on the most current...
Rubicon, 2001. — 170 p. Not everyone is aware of the fact but the ancient Egyptians did possess a sense of humour. Patrick Houlihan's interesting and well illustrated study looks for examples of Egyptian wit and humour in their literature and art to determine what it was that made ancient Egyptians smile. These include instances of verbal humour, comical temple decorations and...
Lockwood Press, 2016. — 498 p. Illuminating Osiris comprises twenty-seven articles by students, friends, and colleagues in honor of Mark Smith, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford. Smith is especially renowned as a Demoticist and specialist in ancient Egyptian religion. His numerous Demotic text editions and translations of Egyptian funerary and religious...
Brill, 2021. — 432 p. — (Harvard Egyptological Studies 15). In Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead: The Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living Julia Hsieh investigates the beliefs and practices of communicating with the dead in ancient Egypt through close lexical semantic analysis of extant Letters. Hsieh shows how oral indicators, toponyms, and adverbs in these...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 504 p. The Egyptian Collection at Norwich Castle Museum represents the first full publication of this important collection which contains several outstanding objects. Part 1 begins with an outline of the acquisition history of the Egyptian collection and its display within Norwich Castle in 1894, when it was converted from a prison to a museum. The...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 504 p. The Egyptian Collection at Norwich Castle Museum represents the first full publication of this important collection which contains several outstanding objects. Part 1 begins with an outline of the acquisition history of the Egyptian collection and its display within Norwich Castle in 1894, when it was converted from a prison to a museum. The...
C.H. Beck, 1933. — 412 S. Die Notwendigkeit, den zunächst erscheinenden Teilabschnitten der Kulturgeschichte des Alten Orients - Ägypten, Kleinasien, die Iranier - ein Vorwort vorauszuschicken, gibt mir die erwünschte Gelegenheit, mich endlich einmal grundsätzlich über die von mir begonnene Neugestaltung des Iwan von Müllerschen Handbuches der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft...
Albany Institute of History and Art, 2018. — 154 p. In 1909, two mummies, one dating from the 21st Dynasty and the other from the Ptolemaic Period, arrived in Albany, New York. Purchased from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by Albany businessman Samuel Brown for the Albany Institute of History & Art (AIHA), they have been on continuous exhibition since then and are the most...
Albany Institute of History and Art, 2018. — 154 p. In 1909, two mummies, one dating from the 21st Dynasty and the other from the Ptolemaic Period, arrived in Albany, New York. Purchased from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by Albany businessman Samuel Brown for the Albany Institute of History & Art (AIHA), they have been on continuous exhibition since then and are the most...
Albany Institute of History and Art, 2018. — 154 p. In 1909, two mummies, one dating from the 21st Dynasty and the other from the Ptolemaic Period, arrived in Albany, New York. Purchased from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by Albany businessman Samuel Brown for the Albany Institute of History & Art (AIHA), they have been on continuous exhibition since then and are the most...
Greenwood, 2016. — 640 p. The mysteries surrounding ancient Egypt continue to pique interest and prompt study thousands of years later. Intriguing questions - such as "Why were certain Egyptians mummified after death, while others were not?", "How were the pyramids constructed?", and "Were sexuality and courtship accurately portrayed in movies about the period?" - incite...
Greenwood, 2016. — 640 p. The mysteries surrounding ancient Egypt continue to pique interest and prompt study thousands of years later. Intriguing questions - such as "Why were certain Egyptians mummified after death, while others were not?", "How were the pyramids constructed?", and "Were sexuality and courtship accurately portrayed in movies about the period?" - incite...
Thames & Hudson, 1997. — 256 p. Mark Lehner brings his many years of field research in Egypt to this definitive book. He examines the pyramids in unprecedented detail, covering the practical aspects - the quarries, ramps, and tools used in construction - as well as the conceptual ones. Professor Lehner surveys and describes the pyramids across their 3,000-year history, as well...
Oriental Institute Czechoslovakia, 1935. — 161 p. Dancing was important to the ancient Egyptians. One of the few books available in English on this topic, this carefully researched, profusely illustrated work investigates the origins, nature and role of dance in Egyptian culture. Features 80 figure drawings and illustrations adapted from tomb paintings, reliefs, other authentic...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2019. — 340 p. Located some one hundred kilometers southwest of Cairo, the Fayum region has long been regarded as unique, often described in terms that conjure up images of an idealized Garden of Eden. In The Fayum Landscape Claire Malleson takes a novel approach to the study of the region by exploring the ways in which people have,...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2019. — 340 p. Located some one hundred kilometers southwest of Cairo, the Fayum region has long been regarded as unique, often described in terms that conjure up images of an idealized Garden of Eden. In The Fayum Landscape Claire Malleson takes a novel approach to the study of the region by exploring the ways in which people have,...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 368 p. Five hundred years before Homer immortalized the Trojan Horse, the ancient Egyptians had already composed a tale of soldiers hiding Ali Baba-like in baskets to capture a besieged city. Shortly after the rise to power of the warrior pharaoh Ramesses II, Egyptian authors began to write stories about battles and conquest. However, these...
Yale Egyptological Seminar, 2003. — 210 p. — ISBN13 9780974002507. The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah's 5th regnal year, the longest surviving continuous monumental text from Egypt, describes the combined Libyan and Sea People invasion of Egypt c.1208 BCE. This new study, the first complete commentary on this long but unfortunately damaged text, begins with a translation...
Thames & Hudson, 2023. — 272 p. The Teaching of Ptahhatp, composed two millennia before the birth of Plato, is the oldest surviving statement of philosophy in the ancient world and the earliest witness to the power of the written word. It ought to begin the list of the worlds philosophy classics, yet it has been largely forgotten since it was rediscovered in the nineteenth...
Thames & Hudson, 2023. — 240 p. A new translation of a philosophical and practical advice classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp , written in Egypt four thousand years ago and still relevant for modern readers today. Noted author and Egyptologist Bill Manley renders into approachable modern English for the first time the oldest surviving statement of philosophy...
Editions du Rocher, 2015. — 280 p. En Egypte ancienne, le principal rôle que l'on attendait de la femme était celui de mère car il ancrait sa place dans son foyer mais également dans sa communauté. Le désir de maternité pouvait être biologique mais il était avant tout social : l'absence d'héritier entraînait une déconsidération pouvant aboutir à la répudiation. Dieux,...
Brill, 2018. — 1127 S. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 92). In Auditive Räume des alten Ägypten Erika Meyer-Dietrich explores the sonic aspects of culture in the 18th Dynasty (1550-1290 BCE). Crucial to the transformation of an audio culture during the Amarna Period are the transfer of traditional sound patterns to new contexts and the position of the heard body...
Ballantine books, 2004. —191 p. — ISBN 9780345450678, 0345450671. The deciphering of the Rosetta stone was one of the great intellectual achievements of all time, unlocking the secrets of thousands of years of Egypt’s ancient civilization. Yet in the past two centuries, the circumstances surrounding this bravura feat of translation have become shrouded in myth and mystery. Now...
Ballantine Books, 2004. — 191 p. — ISBN 9780345450678, 0345450671. The deciphering of the Rosetta stone was one of the great intellectual achievements of all time, unlocking the secrets of thousands of years of Egypt’s ancient civilization. Yet in the past two centuries, the circumstances surrounding this bravura feat of translation have become shrouded in myth and mystery. Now...
Ballantine books, 2005. — 288 p. The deciphering of the Rosetta stone was one of the great intellectual achievements of all time, unlocking the secrets of thousands of years of Egypt’s ancient civilization. Yet in the past two centuries, the circumstances surrounding this bravura feat of translation have become shrouded in myth and mystery. Now in his spellbinding book, Daniel...
Head of Zeus, 2016. — 352 p. The Pyramid Texts were carved onto the walls of burial chambers in royal pyramids 4,000 years ago. They have intrigued scholars, mystics and historians ever since they were discovered in 1881. They have usually been misconstrued as a garbled collection of primitive myths and incantations, relegating their radiant fusion of philosophy, scientific...
Combining approaches to ancient Egyptian religious expression, medical practice and the modern scientific study of human and material remains from Egypt and Sudan, this volume celebrates the multidisciplinary career of Prof Rosalie David OBE. The UK's first female Professor in Egyptology, Rosalie David's pioneering work at the University of Manchester on Egyptian mummies, magic...
Sidwick & Jackson, 1950. — 341 p. Pioneering Egyptologist examines in detail such topics as food preparation, burial customs, and social rituals, creating a complete picture of achievements — from architecture and medicine to engineering and government.
Lucent Books, 2005. — 112 p. — (The Lucent Library of Historical Eras). — ISBN 1-59018-706-7. The many arts and crafts at which the Egyptians excelled and the numerous leisure pastimes they pursued are examined in detail in this enlightening book. Among the crafts covered are pottery- and glass-making, spinning and weaving, painting, sculpture and jewelry-making. Other chapters...
Pen & Sword History, 2020. — 224 p. The Greek historian Hecataeus of Abdera declared during the 4th century BCE that the Egyptian civilization was unsurpassed in the arts and in good governance, surpassing even that of the Greeks. During the Renaissance, several ecclesiastical nobles, including the Borgia Pope Alexander VI claimed their descent from the Egyptian god Osiris. In...
Pen & Sword History, 2020. — 224 p. The Greek historian Hecataeus of Abdera declared during the 4th century BCE that the Egyptian civilization was unsurpassed in the arts and in good governance, surpassing even that of the Greeks. During the Renaissance, several ecclesiastical nobles, including the Borgia Pope Alexander VI claimed their descent from the Egyptian god Osiris. In...
Oxbow Books, 2012. — 272 p. The Crown of Arsinoë II is a detailed study of a unique crown that was created for the Ptolemaic Egyptian Queen Arsinoë II which has important conclusions for ancient Egyptian history. Images of Arsinoë are represented in a broad spectrum of iconographic media, depicting this historical figure in a Greek as well as Egyptian cultural setting, and as...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 104 p. — (Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context). This Element offers a new approach to ancient Egyptian images informed by interdisciplinary work in archaeology, anthropology, and art history. Sidestepping traditional perspectives on Egyptian art, the Element focuses squarely on the ontological status of the image in ancient thought and...
Ancient Egypt Research Associates, 2020. — 275 p. — ISBN 978-1-7341542-0-7. This detailed catalog of the remarkable collection of artifacts from the Mît Rahîna museum is now freely available to students, scholars, and museum visitors from around the world. The museum of Mît Rahîna sits on archaeological remains in the heart of the Memphite ruin field and displays a substantial...
Cambridge University Press, 2025. — 76 p. — (Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context). Memory is a fascinating way to approach modern and ancient cultures, as it raises questions about what, why, and how individuals and groups remember. Egyptology has had a major impact on the development of memory studies, with Jan Assmann's notion of cultural memory becoming a widespread model...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. — 160 p. Voices from Ancient Egypt is an anthology presenting translations of sixty documents from a golden age of ancient Egyptian culture (c. 2081-1600 BC). The documents illustrate all aspects of life and the place of literacy in an early civilisation. The 'voices' range from the high formal literature of religious rituals and royal...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2021. — 340 p. This is the third and final volume in the Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis series dedicated to the ongoing work of the Egyptian–American South Asasif Conservation Project, under the aus-pices of the Ministry of Antiquities and directed by Elena Pischikova. The project was founded in 2006 to restore and reconstruct the...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2021. — 340 p. This is the third and final volume in the Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis series dedicated to the ongoing work of the Egyptian–American South Asasif Conservation Project, under the aus-pices of the Ministry of Antiquities and directed by Elena Pischikova. The project was founded in 2006 to restore and reconstruct the...
Routledge, 2009. — 206 p. Across the world, various peoples since ancient times have consumed alcoholic drinks. Although the origin of the practice will never be known for certain, a search for the historical source of this impulse of human society has produced a variety of explanations. The ancient Chinese, for example, placed the creation of alcoholic beverage in the quasimythic...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 478 p. Combining approaches to ancient Egyptian religious expression, medical practice and the modern scientific study of human and material remains from Egypt and Sudan, this volume celebrates the multidisciplinary career of Prof Rosalie David OBE. The UK's first female Professor in Egyptology, Rosalie David's pioneering work at the...
Manchester University Press, 2023. — 248 p. Golden Mummies of Egypt presents new insights and a rich perspective on beliefs about the afterlife during an era when Egypt was part of the Greek and Roman worlds (c. 300 BCE–200 CE). This beautifully illustrated book, featuring photography by Julia Thorne, accompanies Manchester Museum’s first-ever international touring exhibition....
Manchester University Press, 2023. — 248 p. Golden Mummies of Egypt presents new insights and a rich perspective on beliefs about the afterlife during an era when Egypt was part of the Greek and Roman worlds (c. 300 BCE–200 CE). This beautifully illustrated book, featuring photography by Julia Thorne, accompanies Manchester Museum’s first-ever international touring exhibition....
Atlantic Books, 2021. — 432 p. When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into a household name overnight and kickstarting an international media obsession that endures to this day. From pop culture and politics to tourism and heritage, and from the Jazz Age to the climate crisis, it's impossible to...
Atlantic Books, 2021. — 432 p. When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into a household name overnight and kickstarting an international media obsession that endures to this day. From pop culture and politics to tourism and heritage, and from the Jazz Age to the climate crisis, it's impossible to...
Atlantic Books, 2021. — 432 p. When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into a household name overnight and kickstarting an international media obsession that endures to this day. From pop culture and politics to tourism and heritage, and from the Jazz Age to the climate crisis, it's impossible to...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. — 336 p. In ancient Egypt, wrapping sacred objects, including mummified bodies, in layers of cloth was a ritual that lay at the core of Egyptian society. Yet in the modern world, attention has focused instead on unwrapping all the careful arrangements of linen textiles the Egyptians had put in place. This book breaks new ground by looking at the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. — 336 p. In ancient Egypt, wrapping sacred objects, including mummified bodies, in layers of cloth was a ritual that lay at the core of Egyptian society. Yet in the modern world, attention has focused instead on unwrapping all the careful arrangements of linen textiles the Egyptians had put in place. This book breaks new ground by looking at the...
Oxford University Press, 1974. — xxviii, 470 p. This classic book, first published in 1919, is one of the most important works of Egyptology, and is of great significance to art historians, aestheticians, and psychologists working in related fields. In the ground-breaking study Heinrich Schafer set out to analyse and elucidate the representational conventions of Egyptian...
I.B. Tauris, 2005. — 352 p. A comprehensive survey of ancient Egyptian temples and rituals associated with their use. Shafer - a renowned Egyptologist - covers the entire pharaonic era, from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period, and challenges the idea that temples were either 'mortuary' or 'divine', showing instead that their functions were varied. The book demonstrates the...
Bristol Classical Press, 2012. — 216 p. This book examines the fundamental evidence for many different aspects of change and evolution in ancient Egyptian technology. It includes discussion of the wider cognitive and social contexts, such as the Egyptian propensity for mental creativity and innovation, and the pace of change in Egypt in comparison with other African,...
Brill, 2024. — 420 S. — (Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible 14). Der Schmelztiegel des antiken Ägypten begünstigt die Entstehung spezifischer und charakteristischer Ideen über die Sphäre zwischen Tod und Jenseits: Vom ptolemäischen Ägypten bis zur Islamisierung in der Spätantike begegnen und durchdringen sich kulturelle Diskurse an den Schnittstellen zwischen...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 208 p. Egyptian coffins stand out in museum collections for their lively and radiant appearance. As a container of the mummy, coffins played a key role by protecting the body and, at the same time, integrating the deceased in the afterlife. The paramount importance of these objects and their purpose is detected in the ways they changed through time. For...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 208 p. Egyptian coffins stand out in museum collections for their lively and radiant appearance. As a container of the mummy, coffins played a key role by protecting the body and, at the same time, integrating the deceased in the afterlife. The paramount importance of these objects and their purpose is detected in the ways they changed through time. For...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2021. — 200 p. An illustrated cultural guide to the archaeological site of Amarna, the best-preserved pharaonic city in Egypt Around three thousand years ago, the pharaoh Akhenaten turned his back on Amun, and most of the great gods of Egypt. Abandoning Thebes, he quickly built a grand new city in Middle Egypt, Akhetaten - Horizon of the...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2021. — 200 p. An illustrated cultural guide to the archaeological site of Amarna, the best-preserved pharaonic city in Egypt Around three thousand years ago, the pharaoh Akhenaten turned his back on Amun, and most of the great gods of Egypt. Abandoning Thebes, he quickly built a grand new city in Middle Egypt, Akhetaten - Horizon of the...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2021. — 272 p. A fascinating examination of the role of lighting in ancient Egyptian culture. Artificial lighting is one of the earliest tools used by humans. By the time we began to paint cave walls, we were producing lamps consisting of an illuminant, a fat or oil, and a wick, such as a strip of fabric or a piece of reed or wood....
The American University in Cairo Press, 2021. — 272 p. A fascinating examination of the role of lighting in ancient Egyptian culture. Artificial lighting is one of the earliest tools used by humans. By the time we began to paint cave walls, we were producing lamps consisting of an illuminant, a fat or oil, and a wick, such as a strip of fabric or a piece of reed or wood....
Fitzwilliam Museum / D Giles Limited, 2016. — 256 p. Death on the Nile deepens our understanding of the lives and concerns of ancient Egyptians as they prepared themselves for death and burial. Building on the growing trend in Egyptology to use scientific analysis and imaging to examine artefacts, this new volume focuses on one hundred objects from the Fitzwilliam Museum’s...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 432 p. Senneferi was the chancellor of the king in Thebes (modern Luxor) in the reign of Thutmose III (c. 1430 BC). His large but badly damaged tomb lies in the hill of Sheikh Abdel Qurna on the West Bank at Luxor. This first of two volumes focuses on the use of the tomb complex during the New Kingdom, especially the 18th dynasty (c. 1550–1300 BC). It begins...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 432 p. Senneferi was the chancellor of the king in Thebes (modern Luxor) in the reign of Thutmose III (c. 1430 BC). His large but badly damaged tomb lies in the hill of Sheikh Abdel Qurna on the West Bank at Luxor. This first of two volumes focuses on the use of the tomb complex during the New Kingdom, especially the 18th dynasty (c. 1550–1300 BC). It begins...
Classical Press of Wales, 2006 . — 274 p. Magic, dreams and prophecy played important roles in ancient Egypt, as in other Mediterranean societies. Scholars are now approaching the whole topic of divination in antiquity with greatly enhanced attention. In this volume eminent international specialists come together to explore the practice, logic and psychology of divination among...
Classical Press of Wales, 2003. — 237 p. A comprehensive study of dreams as they were perceived and interpreted by the Egyptians in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC - from Old Kingdom to New Kingdom. The author examines the various roles dreams could play in ancient Egyptian society, whether political, religious, magical, or literary. Also considered is the value of...
Thames & Hudson, 2022. — 320 p. Pierre Tallet’s discovery of the Red Sea Scrolls - the world’s oldest surviving written documents - in 2013 was one of the most remarkable moments in the history of Egyptology. These papyri, written some 4,600 years ago, and combined with Mark Lehner’s research, changed what we thought we knew about the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza....
Thames & Hudson, 2022. — 320 p. Pierre Tallet’s discovery of the Red Sea Scrolls - the world’s oldest surviving written documents - in 2013 was one of the most remarkable moments in the history of Egyptology. These papyri, written some 4,600 years ago, and combined with Mark Lehner’s research, changed what we thought we knew about the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza....
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 192 p. Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt uniquely considers how power was constructed, maintained, and challenged in ancient Egypt through mortuary culture and apotheosis, or how certain dead in ancient Egypt became gods. Rather than focus on the imagined afterlife and its preparation, Julia Troche provides a novel treatment of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. — 256 p. Texts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or on the contents of papyrus copies of the Book of the Dead. This book focusses on the adaptation of parts of this funerary corpus in...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 240 p. Little is known about Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen whose name means "beautiful woman has come". She was the wife of Akhenaten, the pharaoh who ushered in the dramatic Amarna Age, and she bore him at least six children. She played a prominent role in political and religious affairs, but after Akhenaten’s death she apparently vanished and...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 240 p. Little is known about Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen whose name means "beautiful woman has come". She was the wife of Akhenaten, the pharaoh who ushered in the dramatic Amarna Age, and she bore him at least six children. She played a prominent role in political and religious affairs, but after Akhenaten’s death she apparently vanished and...
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 1969. — 30 p. — (Scholae Adriani de Buck memoriae dicatae 4). Dans le tableau que les Egyptiens ont tracé de l'homme idéal, les traits dominants sont la modération, la retenue, la maîtrise de soi, mis en opposition avec la démesure, l'excitation et la colère, qui sont le propre de l'Insensé. L'homme sage et pondéré est désigné comme...
Brill, 2017. — 370 p. — (Harvard Egyptological Studies 3). In The Craft of a Good Scribe , Steve Vinson offers a comprehensive study of the Demotic Egyptian First Tale of Setne Khaemwas (Third Century BCE), the first to appear since 1900. "First Setne" is the most important extant Demotic literary text, and among the most important fictional compositions from any period of...
Aracne, 2006. — 94 p. — (Quaderni di egittologia 5). In epoca romana, la cultura egizia non era morta e sepolta, ma aveva ancora una sua vitalità, capace di esprimersi non solo nella Terra del Nilo, ma anche nel resto del mondo conosciuto e a Roma, capitale dell’Impero: qui possiamo dunque incontrare l’Egitto, nel suo fascino esotico ma in una dimensione per così dire...
Quelle & Meyer, 1913. — 187 S. Im Serbst 1912 habe ich während der Salzburger Serial furte Dorlesungen über die Entwidlung der ägyptifchen Kultur gehalten. Aus ihnen ift das vorliegende Büchlein hervorgegangen, in dem mancherlei Ergebniffe verarbeitet find, zu denen mich meine akademifchen Dorträge über die Gejcichte und Kiteratur des alten Ugyptens geführt haben. Es Fam mir in...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2005. — 563 p. The scale and richness of the tombs and temples on the banks of the Nile at Luxor have attracted and fascinated travelers for thousands of years. Now finally comes the vade mecum that generations of visitors would have loved to have. The Illustrated Guide to Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, fully illustrated with superb...
Edimat Libros, 2002. — 489 p. Los monumentos y pinturas egipcias nos han proporcionado una visión sobre el modo de vida de los egipcios, y se consideran las primeras descripciones de las maneras y costumbres de cualquier nación. En esta instructiva obra, formada por dos volúmenes, J. Gardner Wilkinson muestra que el desarrollo de la cultura egipcia en las artes y los métodos...
Edimat Libros, 2002. — 493 p. Los monumentos y pinturas egipcias nos han proporcionado una visión sobre el modo de vida de los egipcios, y se consideran las primeras descripciones de las maneras y costumbres de cualquier nación. En esta instructiva obra, formada por dos volúmenes, J. Gardner Wilkinson muestra que el desarrollo de la cultura egipcia en las artes y los métodos...
Bloomsbury, 2008. — 64 p. The two staples of ancient Egyptian life were bread and beer, both products of the abundant grain hartest of the fertile Nile valley. Bread was so important that over forty Egyptian words are nown for various loaves and cakes. The need to brew beer for the household apparently justified absence from work. This book surveys the constituents of the...
Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1995. — 483 p. Tras el rostro impasible y remoto de cada una de las esculturas egipcias se esconde el espíritu de un pueblo vivaz, humorista e intensamente práctico. Su cultura surgió con rapidez, floreció durante uno de los períodos más largos de que se tenga memoria y, de pronto, quedó petrificada. Dentro de un universo atemporal e ilógico, donde...
The University of Chicago Press, 1956. — 385 p. The story of Egypt is the story of history itself—the endless rise and fall, the life and death and life again of the eternal human effort to endure, enjoy, and understand the mystery of our universe. Emerging from the ancient mists of time, Egypt met the challenge of the mystery in a glorious evolution of religious, intellectual,...
The University of Chicago Press, 1956. — 384 p. The story of Egypt is the story of history itself—the endless rise and fall, the life and death and life again of the eternal human effort to endure, enjoy, and understand the mystery of our universe. Emerging from the ancient mists of time, Egypt met the challenge of the mystery in a glorious evolution of religious, intellectual,...
Routledge, 2019. — 426 p. Science in the Study of Ancient Egypt takes an innovative and integrated approach to the use of scientific techniques and methodologies within the study of ancient Egypt. Accessibly demonstrating how to integrate scientific methodologies into Egyptology broadly, and in Egyptian archaeology in particular, this volume will help to maximise the amount of...
М.: Наука, 1976. — 444 с.
В книге рассказывается о многогранной культуре древнего Египта: о его истории, хозяйстве, быте, военном деле, религии, научной мысли, законодательстве, языке и письменности, художественной литературе, театре, музыке, спорте.
М.: Наука, 1976. — 444 с.
В книге рассказывается о многогранной культуре древнего Египта: о его истории, хозяйстве, быте, военном деле, религии, научной мысли, законодательстве, языке и письменности, художественной литературе, театре, музыке, спорте.
М.: Новый Акрополь, 2015. — 105 с. — (Выставки «Нового Акрополя»). Во все времена Египет притягивал к себе путешественников. Философы и правители, ученые и художники устремлялись к берегам Нила, чтобы прикоснуться к сокровищам египетской мудрости, знаниям о мире и человеке, жизни и смерти, красоте и справедливости. Основа выставки - богатый научный и литературный материал,...
Под общей редакцией А. С. Четверухина. — СПб.: Журнал «Нева»; Летний Сад, 2001. — 368 с. Книгу составили труды выдающихся русских египтологов Ю. Я. Перепёлкина и М. А. Коростовцева, посвященные возникновению и развитию иероглифической письменности в Древнем Египте.
Без выходных данных. — 40 с. Источники и публикации Календари Ранний лунный календарь. Наблюдения Сириуса и его связь с календарем. Схематический гражданский календарь. Поздний лунный календарь. Измерение времени ночью. Деканы. Звездные часы Диагональные календари. Кульминирующие деканы. Положение деканов на небе. Часы Рамессидов. Водяные и солнечные часы Введение 24-часового...
СПб.: Диля, 2003. — 288 с. — ISBN 5-88503-421-4.
Свыше 300 символов из самых различных областей египетской культуры в эпоху ее расцвета собраны в этом справочном издании. Ритуалы, астрология и сложные учения о земной мудрости относились когда-то к мировоззрению Древнего Египта и оказывали большое влияние на быт населения. Ярко выраженный культ усопших в царстве фараонов...
СПб.: Диля, 2003. — 288 с. — ISBN 5-88503-421-4. В книге кратко рассказано о религиозных символах древнего Египта, о богах, о том, какое религиозное и культурное значение имели для египтян различные растения и животные и как они все это изображали. Свыше 300 символов из самых различных областей египетской культуры в эпоху ее расцвета собраны в этом справочном издании. Ритуалы,...
СПб.: Нева, 2005. — 304 с., ил. — ISBN: 5-87516-086-1. Эта книга — первая полноценная публикация уникальных памятников колоссальных сфинксов Аменхотепа III, ставших привычным элементом непередаваемой атмосферы Санкт-Петербурга. Наши современники, проходящие мимо, редко вспоминают, что рядом с ними находятся не просто шедевры древнего искусства, но подлинные свидетели...
СПб.: Нева, 2005. — 304 с., ил. — ISBN: 5-87516-086-1. Эта книга — первая полноценная публикация уникальных памятников колоссальных сфинксов Аменхотепа III, ставших привычным элементом непередаваемой атмосферы Санкт-Петербурга. Наши современники, проходящие мимо, редко вспоминают, что рядом с ними находятся не просто шедевры древнего искусства, но подлинные свидетели...
Рис. обложки Д. Митрохина. — Петроград: Огни, 1922. — 177 с. Книга выдающегося русского востоковеда и египтолога, основоположника отечественной школы истории и филологии Древнего Востока Бориса Александровича Тураева (1868–1920) представляет собой научно-популярный очерк истории и культуры Древнего Египта, и при всей своей краткости остается одним из самых глубоких и подробных...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2017. — 448 с. Известный в 50-е годы прошлого столетия американский египтолог Джон А. Уилсон представил свою интерпретацию истории одного из величайших культурных периодов в человеческом опыте. Основываясь на письменных источниках, свидетельствах древних авторов, а также предметах материальной культуры, он собрал, проанализировал и представил исследование о...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2017. — 229 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5274-9. Известный американский египтолог Джон А. Уилсон представил свою интерпретацию истории одного из величайших культурных периодов в человеческом опыте. Основываясь на письменных источниках, свидетельствах древних авторов, а также предметах материальной культуры, он собрал, проанализировал и представил исследование о...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2017. — 229 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5274-9. Известный американский египтолог Джон А. Уилсон представил свою интерпретацию истории одного из величайших культурных периодов в человеческом опыте. Основываясь на письменных источниках, свидетельствах древних авторов, а также предметах материальной культуры, он собрал, проанализировал и представил исследование о...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2017. — 229 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5274-9. Известный американский египтолог Джон А. Уилсон представил свою интерпретацию истории одного из величайших культурных периодов в человеческом опыте. Основываясь на письменных источниках, свидетельствах древних авторов, а также предметах материальной культуры, он собрал, проанализировал и представил исследование о...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2017. — 229 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5274-9. Известный американский египтолог Джон А. Уилсон представил свою интерпретацию истории одного из величайших культурных периодов в человеческом опыте. Основываясь на письменных источниках, свидетельствах древних авторов, а также предметах материальной культуры, он собрал, проанализировал и представил исследование о...
М.: Арт-Родник, 2003. — 68 с.: ил. — (Древние культуры)— ISBN 5-88896-137-X. Увлекательный рассказ о жизни древних египтян. "Аромат" многовековой истории страны пирамид. Изображения бесценных памятников Древнего Египта. Введение Изучение Древнего Египта Жизнь в Древнем Египте Река Нил Иероглифы Наследие Древнего Египта Хронология
М.: Арт-Родник, 2003. — 68 с.: ил. — (Древние культуры)— ISBN 5-88896-137-X. Увлекательный рассказ о жизни древних египтян. "Аромат" многовековой истории страны пирамид. Изображения бесценных памятников Древнего Египта. Введение Изучение Древнего Египта Жизнь в Древнем Египте Река Нил Иероглифы Наследие Древнего Египта Хронология
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