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Ancient Perspectives On Egypt
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Author : Roger Matthews
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-09-16
Ancient Perspectives On Egypt written by Roger Matthews and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-16 with Social Science categories.
The allure of Egypt is not exclusive to the modern world. Egypt also held a fascination and attraction for people of the past. In this book, academics from a wide range of disciplines assess the significance of Egypt within the settings of its past. The chronological span is from later prehistory, through to the earliest literate eras of interaction with Mesopotamia and the Levant, the Aegean, Greece and Rome. Ancient Perspectives on Egypt includes both archaeological and documented evidence, which ranges from the earliest writing attested in Egypt and Mesopotamia in the late fourth millennium BC, to graffiti from Abydos that demonstrate pilgrimages from all over the Mediterranean world, to the views of Roman poets on the nature of Egypt. This book presents, for the first time in a single volume, a multi-faceted but coherent collection of images of Egypt from, and of, the past.
Towards A New History For The Egyptian Old Kingdom
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Author : Peter Der Manuelian
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-10-20
Towards A New History For The Egyptian Old Kingdom written by Peter Der Manuelian and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-20 with History categories.
These conference papers from a one-day international Egyptology symposium at Harvard University (April 26, 2012) consider questions of kingship, religion, art, economics, and old and new archaeological excavations at the Giza Pyramids and beyond (3rd millennium BCE).
Perspectives On Materiality In Ancient Egypt Agency Cultural Reproduction And Change
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Author : Maynart Érika
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2018-09-11
Perspectives On Materiality In Ancient Egypt Agency Cultural Reproduction And Change written by Maynart Érika and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-11 with Social Science categories.
Growing out of a colloquium organised in São Paulo in March 2016, here Nine papers approach the potential of materiality in Ancient Egypt based on several case studies covering a wide range of topics such as Egyptian art, recent perspectives on sex and gender, hierarchies, and the materiality of textual sources and images.
Ancient Perspectives
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Author : Richard J. A. Talbert
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-02-14
Ancient Perspectives written by Richard J. A. Talbert and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-14 with History categories.
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy’s ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor’s rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.
Views Of Ancient Egypt Since Napoleon Bonaparte
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Author : David Jeffreys
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-16
Views Of Ancient Egypt Since Napoleon Bonaparte written by David Jeffreys and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-16 with Social Science categories.
This book addresses some of the main themes of the study of Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In a combination of case studies and discursive chapters, the status of Egypt as an important example of traditional Asian scholarship, and as an ancient model of imperialism itself, is examined. Contributions range from studies of nineteenth century antiquarianism, and the collecting of Egyptian antiquities as an extension of the territorial ambitions and rivalries of the European powers, to explorations of how Egypt is understood and interpreted in contemporary societies. Views of Ancient Egypt also considers the way in which Ancient Egypt has been adopted by less privileged members of some societies as a cultural icon of past greatness.
Investigating Ancient Egypt
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Author : Thomas Schneider
language : en
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Release Date : 2013-09-27
Investigating Ancient Egypt written by Thomas Schneider and has been published by I. B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-27 with Egypt categories.
How well do we really know ancient Egypt? The world of the Egyptians seems so familiar to us: exhibitions of ancient art and archaeological discoveries in the desert sands continue to generate interest and amazement, while Egyptian motifs appear in architecture, in literature, in art works, in advertising and in films. And yet, so much of what we take for granted is based on quite wildly inaccurate information that has been spreading since the days of classical antiquity and the Renaissance. It is only in the last 200 years that we have even been able to read for ourselves the writings of the ancient Egyptians - so it is hardly surprising that the myths which have built up in the preceding 2,000 years are so tough to dispel. But this is what the internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Thomas Schneider here attempts to do: he asks What are the 101 single most important questions about ancient Egypt? The questions he has chosen - and the answers he provides - challenge almost everything we thought we knew about the ancient civilisation in the Nile valley. They range from the surprising (Why did upper class Egyptians never wear a beard?) to the profound (Was ancient Egypt a culture of death?) and the provocative (What do we NOT know about ancient Egypt?) but all the answers will surprise, inspire and challenge a wide range of readers. In the process, they provide a completely fresh way of looking at all aspects of ancient Egypt - from history, art and everyday life to religion and ancient attitudes to death and the afterlife.
Consuming Ancient Egypt
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Author : Sally MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2012-10-12
Consuming Ancient Egypt written by Sally MacDonald and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Law categories.
The discipline of Egyptology has been criticised for being too insular,with little awareness of the development of archaeologies elsewhere. It has remained theoretically underdeveloped. For example the role of Ancient Egypt within Africa has rarely been considered jointly by Egyptologists and Africanists. Egypt's own view of itself has been neglected; views of it in the ancient past, in more recent times and today have remained underexposed. Encounters with Ancient Egypt is a series of eight books which addresses these issues. The books interrelate, inform and illuminate one another and will appeal to a wide market including academics, students and the general public interested in Archaeology, Egyptology, Anthropology, Architecture, Design and History. Consuming Ancient Egypt examines the influence of Ancient Egypt on the everyday lives of people, of all ages, throughout the world. It looks at the Egypt which the tourist sees, Egypt in film and Egypt as the inspiration for opera. It asks why so many books are published each year on Egyptological subjects at all levels, from the austerely academic to the riotous celebrations of Egypt as a land of mystery, enchantment and fantasy. It then considers the ways in which Ancient Egypt interacts with the living world, in architecture, museum-going, the acquisition of souvenirs and reproductions, design, and the perpetual appeal of the mummy. The significance of Egypt as an adjunct to (and frequently the subject of) marketing in the consumer society is examined. It reveals much about Egypt's immemorial appeal and the psychology of those who succumb to its mag
Description Of Egypt
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Author : Edward William Lane
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2000
Description Of Egypt written by Edward William Lane and has been published by American Univ in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
The launching of this hitherto unpublished book by the great nineteenth-century British traveler Edward William Lane (1801-76), a name known to almost everyone in all the many fields of Middle East studies, is a major publishing event. Lane was the author of a number of highly influential works: An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), his translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1839-41), Selections from the Kur-an (1843), and the Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93). Yet one of his greatest works was never published: after years of labor and despite an enthusiastic reception by the publishing firm of John Murray in 1831, publication of his first book, Description of Egypt, was delayed and eventually dropped, mainly for financial reasons. The manuscript was sold to the British Library by Lane's widow in 1891, and has only now been salvaged for publication by Dr. Jason Thompson, nearly 170 years after its completion. This enormously important book, which takes the form of a journey through Egypt from north to south, with descriptions of all the ancient monuments and contemporary life that Lane explored along the way, will be of immense interest to both ancient and modern historians of Egypt, and will become an essential companion to his Manners and Customs. ''Jason Thompson's exact and dedicated edition deserves much praise.''-Astene Newsletter, June 2002. ''Thompson, a historian at AUC, has done signal service in taking a manuscript dating from 1831 and preparing it for publication so many years later; AUC Press deserves praise for making so major a work available, and at so reasonable a price.''-Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly, June 2001. ''In all, the appearance of this major work of scholarship at this late date is a major boon to the study of Egypt's history between the pharaohs and 18280.''-Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly, June 2001.
Ancient Egypt
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Author : Barry J. Kemp
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1991
Ancient Egypt written by Barry J. Kemp and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
From an archaeological perspective, and drawing on new excavations, Kemp (Egyptology, Cambridge) explores ways in which Egypt of about 3000-1000 BC prefigures our own culture. He discusses what he sees as major shaping forces of the civilization, such as political myth and ideology, bureaucracy, the quest for food and work, charismatic rule, the political and economic constraints on daily life, and the interplay between change and stability through the centuries. Contains many plans of buildings and towns, and redrawings of carvings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Ancient Egypt 2017 Perspectives Of Research
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Author : Maria Helena Trindade Lopes
language : en
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Release Date : 2021-03-31
Ancient Egypt 2017 Perspectives Of Research written by Maria Helena Trindade Lopes and has been published by Harrassowitz this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-31 with categories.
Ancient Egypt 2017. Perspectives of Research, edited in co-operation of Polish and Portuguese Egyptologists, provides an overview of current research and ist perspectives covering various spheres of interest in present-day Egyptology and a scholarly discussion on various approaches to studies of ancient Egypt in all ist aspects and forms. The reader may find 26 papers, including those on pottery, sculpture, language, history, architecture, religion and religious texts, views on empire creation, loyalism and more detailed pieces on amulets, museum collections, household religion and the concept of sin, children's magical protection, religion mirrored in twenty-first dynasty personal correspondence, Esna, the group-statue of Pendua and Nefertari Kushite architectural programmes, the settlement at Tell Nabasha, the Saite-Persian cemetery at Abusir, project presentation and aegyptiaca in Portugal. Many of the issues were discussed during the Eighth European Conference of Egyptologists. Egypt 2017: Research Perspectives that was hosted by the New University of Lisbon and collaborator institutions in Portugal.