Egypt

Between the Roman annexation of Egypt and the Arab period, the Nile Delta went from consisting of seven branches to two, namely the current Rosetta and Damietta branches. For historians, this may look like a slow process, but on a geomorphological scale,...

In colonial-era Egypt, a new social category of "modern men" emerged, the efendiyya. Working as bureaucrats, teachers, journalists, free professionals, and public intellectuals, the efendiyya represented the new middle class elite. They were the experts...

From the international bestselling author comes an unmissable new untelling of the life of one of the most captivating and misrepresented female figures in history.Cleopatra, Egyptian Princess, grows up the favoured daughter of the Pharoah, hiding...

Holm's book is an innovative approach to the biblical Book of Daniel.Book InformationISBN 9781575062600Author Tawney HolmFormat HardbackPage Count 540Imprint EisenbraunsPublisher Pennsylvania State University Press

This facsimile edition of a much acclaimed volume brings back into print a major study of the evidence for the domesticated plants and animals exploited by the ancient Egyptians. The rise of agriculture must be amongst the most important steps that...

Covers three thousand years of history and highlights key pieces from the British Museum's outstanding collection of Egyptian antiquities The rulers of ancient Egypt were not always male, nor always Egyptian. At times, Egypt was divided by civil war,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891305293Author BW JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870996122Author Dieter ArnoldFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Metropolitan Museum of Art New YorkPublisher Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870996207Author Peter F. DormanFormat HardbackPage Count 181Imprint Metropolitan Museum of Art New YorkPublisher Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

An excellent historical overview of the gods... It is a recommended necessary reading for those studying Ancient Egyptian religion. Frankie's Reviews in Egyptology A work of extraordinary distinction, Hornung's book will appeal to anyone interested in...

Textile tools offer a fascinating and yet intimate approach to ancient people. Textile production has been one of the core activities for millennia, spanning from domestic production to royal needs. Textiles were light goods, easy to transport and often...

Were holy men historical figures or figments of the theological imagination? Did the biographies devoted to them reflect facts or only the ideological commitments of their authors? For decades, scholars of late antiquity have wrestled with these...

This collective volume explores societal crises in Hellenistic Egypt, focussing regionally on the Thebaid, from small-scale insurgencies to full-fledged secession. As a result of an international conference held at the Freie Universitat Berlin (May 2-4,...

One of the most striking features of French government in the second half of the sixteenth century was the influence of Italians. Notwithstanding widespread French admiration for Italian culture, Italian influence at the heart of French government...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805056065Author Shalini VallepurFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife PublishingWeight(grams) 95g

The twenty-third Current Research in Egyptology conference took place at the University of Basel, Switzerland on 10th-15th September 2023. This international event was attended by more than 70 young Egyptologists in person, with additional participants...

It is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of dazzling items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and put on display. But there is far more to the boy-king's story...

This collection of historical studies is the product of the writer's research for his doctoral dissertation entitled "A Study of the Chronology of the Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty". It addresses both the chronological succession of the Eighteenth Dynasty...

This volume analyzes the iconography of bound foreigners on New Kingdom monuments and artifacts in order to better understand Egyptian perspectives on foreigners and their treatment of prisoners of war.Depictions of foreign captives in humiliating or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088175910Author Bart MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

A richly nuanced analysis of how ancient Egyptian society regarded and dealt with pregnancy, mothers, birth, and children In ancient Egypt, a woman's primary role was that of mother, and as such she ensured her place within both her household and her...

This book explores disability across time and space—from ‘ancient Egypt’ as a culture to Egyptology as a contemporary field—to go beyond simply identifying disability, encouraging readers to thoughtfully consider the history of disabled people in ancient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789310681079Author George G M JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Perigee BooksPublisher Perigee BooksWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

This book examines the dynamics around the introduction and spread of helmets and body armour throughout Egypt during the 18th, 19th and 20th Dynasties. It argues that the word 'introduction' is the best term to define this phenomenon because these types...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728476636Author Isaac KerryFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Lerner Publishing GroupPublisher Lerner Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 240g

The period of Egypt's Ramesside empire is best known for its foreign wars and monumental buildings but the chronological history of many of its rulers and pre-eminent priests and their genealogies was poorly understood. While it was not possible to fi x...

This Dictionary covers the period from the emergence of the Egyptian state around 3000 BC to the Arab conquest in the mid-7th century AD. The book is divided into three main sections. An introductory section includes a chronology of Egypt, with all known...

This is a facsimile reissue of Flinders Petrie's 1907 account of excavations at Gizeh and at Dier Rifeh in Upper Egypt, just south of Asyut. At Gizeh excavations focused on a cemetery lying on a ridge about 1 km south of the Great Pyramid while work at...

The tomb of Rē‘-wer lies in the south-eastern corner of the mortuary temple of King Teti, first King of the 6th Dynasty, beside the pyramid of Teti, in the Old Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara. Excavations in 1906–7 and in the early 1920s were not published...

This volume is a facsimile reissue of the full publication of the tomb identified as that of Amenemhab, a middle ranking priest of Amon. The tomb lies within the lower enclosure of the major cemetery of Elwet Sheikh-Abdel Qurnah in Thebes. It is cut into...

In the hearts of London and New York stand their two oldest public monuments, Cleopatra's Needles, the last of a series of obelisks from Ancient Egypt to be moved abroad during a period of over two thousand years. This book uses the Needles to examine...

The tombs, with their scenes, inscriptions, objects and human remains, represent our richest source of information for the understanding of Egyptian beliefs and practices, art and architecture and of many aspects of daily life. Detailed, scholarly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960069450Author D P CurtinFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Dalcassian Publishing CompanyPublisher Dalcassian Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

The A to Z of Ancient Egyptian Warfare covers the period from the emergence of the Egyptian state around 3000 BC to the Arab conquest in the mid-7th century AD. The book is divided into three main sections. An introductory section includes a chronology...

The great pyramids of Giza, Tutankhamun, the Great Sphinx, Cleopatra, and Ramesses II: the names and achievements of Ancient Egypt are legendary. Situated along the Nile River, the Ancient Egyptian civilization began around 3150 BC and lasted over three...

This is the facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie's 1921 description and catalogue of pre-dynastic, prehistoric artifacts from Egypt. Draws together evidence from various excavations and surveys undertaken by himself and others to...

Tell el-Amarna is the modern name for the ancient Egyptian city of Akhenaten, situated in a bay of hills formed by the cliffs of the eastern desert about halfway between Cairo and Luxor. The city was founded in the 14th century BC by the Pharaoh...

Flinders Petrie undertook excavation and survey of ancient Egyptian towns in the Faiyum oasis, south-west of Cairo, in 1888-90. The work included opening of a pyramid at Illahun and excavation of a nearby cemetery, excavation and planning of over 2000...

This facsimile reissue of Flinders Petrie's extensive catalog of buttons and scarabs describes and illustrates over 1500 examples, along with an appendix on additions to the 'Scarabs and Cylinders' volume published earlier. In keeping with his...

Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie's 1917 pioneering typological catalogue of Egyptian name-scarabs and cylinders, one of a number of such catalogues to be reissued in this new series. The beetle form of amulets are common...