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Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-11-08
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Only recently has Egyptology started examining ideology and its implications for our self-understanding and understanding of ancient Egypt, Egyptology, and the past as a whole. This edition presents aspects of ideology, scholarship, and individual biographies from World War I to the “Third Reich”.

The Oasis Papers 7
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

The Oasis Papers 7

This tribute to Professor Fred Leemhuis reflects his diverse interests in Egyptology and Islamic studies, with a focus on al-Qasr in Dakhleh. Topics include medieval and Ottoman archaeology, burial practices, ceramics, rock art, Qur’anic translations, and modern Egyptian traditions, alongside accounts of WWI hostilities in the oases.

Exploring Ancient Egypt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

Exploring Ancient Egypt

This fifth volume in the Places in Time series offers a lens for viewing the culture and places of the people of ancient Egypt.

The Pyramids
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 544

The Pyramids

How did a people who lived nearly five thousand years ago, who knew neither iron nor bronze and who lacked mastery of elementary rules of calculation, manage to construct enormous stone structures with a precision seldom matched even by modern architecture? By one of the world's leading Egyptologists, The Pyramids sets our knowledge of these unique, haunting and perennially fascinating edifices into the context of ancient Egyptian culture and politics.

Building in Egypt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Building in Egypt

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1991
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book traces methods of Egyptian stone construction during the pharaonic period, from the construction of the step pyramids at Saqqara to the obelisks of Tuthmosis III to the temples of Rameses II at Thebes. Dr. Arnold covers all aspects of building, including planning, measuring, quarrying and production, transporting heavy monuments, building, digging shafts, repairing damages, and securing tombs. Richly illustrated with photos and field drawings by the author, ancient representations of building activities, and illustrations of tools and objects in museum collections, this book offers a frank appraisal of current knowledge of the process of Egyptian stone construction.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1626
Analytical Bibliography of the Prehistory and the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt and Northern Sudan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

Analytical Bibliography of the Prehistory and the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt and Northern Sudan

An analytical bibliography that contains 7407 references, covering the Egyptian prehistory (palaeolithic, neolithic and predynastic) as well as the period of the first two dynasties.

Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1080

Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean

Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods many of them refer to spaces: cities, landscapes, sanctuaries, houses, cosmic elements. They reflect mental maps which need to be explored in order to gain new knowledge on both the structure of the pantheons and the human agency in the cultic dimension. By considering the intersection between naming and mapping, this book opens up new perspectives on how tradition and innovation, appropriation and creation play a role in the making of polytheist...

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference for Nubian Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1061

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference for Nubian Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-03-01
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  • Publisher: IFAO

The Proceedings of the 14th International Conference for Nubian Studies are published in the research journal Kush for its 20th issue. Sixty articles are presenting the advances of international research on Middle Nile Valley archaeology and highlighting the richness and importance of Sudanese sites along the different phases of its Prehistory and History i.e. kingdoms of Kush (Kerma, Napata, Meroe), Medieval, Post-Medieval and Modern Periods. The eighty authors are coming from different disciplines: archaeology, linguistic, bio-anthropology, museum studies, etc. Their contributions are showing the nowadays implication of research in site management, cultural heritage and museums, especially in the frame of the bilateral programme Qatar Sudan Archaeological Programme.

Temple of the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 625

Temple of the World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Despite the prominence of ancient temples in the landscape of Egypt, books about them are surprisingly rare; this new and essential publication from a prominent Czech scholar answers the need for a study that goes beyond temple architecture to examine the spiritual, economic and political aspects of these specific institutions and the dominant roles they played. Miroslav Verner presents a deeper and more complex study of major ancient Egyptian religious centers, their principal temples, their rise and decline, their religious doctrines, cults, rituals, feasts, and mysteries. Also discussed are the various categories of priests, the organization of the priesthood, and its daily services and customs. Each chapter offers the reader essential and up-to-date information about temple complexes and the history of their archaeological exploration, in the context of the spiritual dimension and cultural legacy of ancient Egypt.