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Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and distinctive features of ancient Egyptian visual culture. For both the literate minority of Egyptians and the vast illiterate majority of the population, hieroglyphs possessed a potent symbolic value that went beyond their capacity to render language visible. For nearly three thousand years, the hieroglyphic script remained closely bound to indigenous notions of religious and cultural identity. By the late antique period, literacy in hieroglyphs had been almost entirely lost. However, the monumental...
He’s young, successful and just met the girl of his dreams-Terrance’s life is going as planned. The moment he laid eyes on Priyanka, she captured his heart. Calculating and chased by her past, little does Terrance know that Priyanka’s desires are twisted. Terrance is blinded by his love while his friends are left with questions. Will Terrance ever find out who she really is?
Stand–in mummy! Stephie had had enough. Everywhere she turned, Logan Ford loomed. First he accused her of flirting with him and then he had the audacity to suggest she was meddling, when all she wanted was to help little Jess. She pitied the little girl, having such an overbearing father. And then she had to eat her words because she had to spend the next five weeks with him. How would she do it?
Yesterday, today and always...
About the Trilogy Missing Picture - Book One - There’s never a dull moment on 9th avenue located in the inner city of Birmingham, AL. Block parties, music and barbecue smoke fills the air. Get to know Terrance, Pookie, Troy, Latonja and Charlene. Pookie has a secret that will destroy the friendships. How does Terrance and the other friends cope with their changing friendship as they grow into young adulthood. What will they do with the secret they have discovered? One Who is Loved – He’s young successful and met the girl of his dreams. Terrance’s life is going as planned. The moment he laid eyes on Priyanka; she captured his heart. Calculating and chased by her past, little does Terr...
In Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales, Jacqueline E. Jay extrapolates from the surviving ancient Egyptian written record hints of a parallel oral tradition, focusing in particular on the corpus of Demotic narrative literature surviving from the Greco-Roman Period.
Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and distinctive features of ancient Egyptian visual culture. For both the literate minority of Egyptians and the vast illiterate majority of the population, hieroglyphs possessed a potent symbolic value that went beyond their capacity to render language visible. For nearly three thousand years, the hieroglyphic script remained closely bound to indigenous notions of religious and cultural identity. By the late antique period, literacy in hieroglyphs had been almost entirely lost. However, the monumental...
This volume gathers articles by archeologists, art historians, and philologists concerned with the afterlives of ancient rock-cut monuments throughout the Near East. Contributions analyze how such monuments were actively reinterpreted and manipulated long after they were first carved.
This volume presents the results of the Leiden project on the identity formation of the Syrian Orthodox Christians, which developed from a religious association into an ethnic community. A number of specialists react to the findings and discuss the cases of the East Syrians, Armenians, Copts, and Ethiopians.
The Winters siblings were always close to one another, and each had a special bond to their sister Vera. Coming from a family of modest means, Ruth, the eldest of the siblings, is plagued with newfound wealth, opulence, and some deadly secrets. A figure of physical beauty, she quickly marries after college and starts a life with a powerful businessman. Identical twins Matthew and Marc couldn't be more opposite from one another. Matthew is in the throes of a raging ethical battle. His career is the most important thing to him, even though he hasn't achieved it all on his own. Marc knew he wanted to marry Lucy the first time he saw her. He knew he was completely content to settle down, have a ...