Egypt

Providing an accessible introduction to the people who lived along the Nile for almost 35 centuries, this collection of essays presents studies of ancient Egyptians arranged by social type - slaves, craftsmen, priests, bureaucrats, pharaohs, peasants and...

Protected on two sides by wide deserts and on another by the sea, the narrow strip of land watered and fertilized by the Nile was an ideal location for the development of the great civilization of Egypt. From its beginnings below the first cataract of...

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How our understanding of the ancient Egyptian afterlife was shaped by Christianity. Many of us are familiar with the ancient Egyptians' obsession with immortality and the great efforts they made to secure the quality of their afterlife. But, as Rune...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986357119Author Heinrich SchaferFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Bunker Pressler BooksPublisher Bunker Pressler BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789062582020Author P. van MoorselFormat PaperbackPage Count 129Imprint Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO)Publisher Nederlands Instituut voor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788894198614Author Patrizia PiacentiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Pontremoli EditorePublisher Pontremoli EditoreWeight(grams) 1148g

A compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire The Ptolemaic era, Egypt's last and one of its longest dynasties, was in many ways a gilded age. Its early rulers restored and even expanded Egyptian...

A comprehensive account of the Libyan pharaohs of Egypt, who ruled from the tenth through the seventh centuries BC, accessibly written by renowned Egyptologist Aidan DodsonDuring the tenth through the seventh centuries BC, Egypt was ruled by a series...

A thorough and absorbing account of the life and times of the famous young pharaoh, Tutankhamun, from the discovery of his tomb to the CT-scans of the twenty-first century, now fully updated and expandedPenned by one of the world's best known...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803279435Author Gillian E BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Archaeopress PublishingPublisher Archaeopress PublishingWeight(grams) 676g

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...

The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient culture's records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts...

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...

This volume aims to enrich the study of ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian narrative (understood in a broad sense to include 'story-telling' of many kinds), illustrating how research methods and perspectives developed within other disciplines may...

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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

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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593312568Author Irene VallejoFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088076637Author Delbert GreearFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

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...

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...