Egypt category: 1199 books
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
*Includes maps and pictures of Ancient Egyptian art and architecture, including King Tut's death mask and the Great Pyramid at Giza. *Includes a Table of Contents. Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate...
by Gaston Maspero
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
9 works of Gaston Maspero French Egyptologist (1846-1916)
This ebook presents a collection of 9 works of Gaston Maspero. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria,...
Christians In Egypt
Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Communities - Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Drawing on more than four decades of experience studying Christian communities in Egypt, Otto Meinardus offers here a sweeping overview of the principal Christian churches and organizations in Egypt today. For the first time, this wealth of information has been gathered into one volume, making it...
Ptolemy I
King and Pharaoh of Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
When Rome defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra and annexed Egypt, the rule of the longest-lived of the Hellenistic dynasties and one of the most illustrious in Egyptian history came to an end. For nearly three hundred years, the Macedonian dynasty known as the Ptolemaic had controlled Egypt...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The Arab Spring protests in 2011 uprooted regimes, challenged authoritarian leaders, and provided protesters new tools for mobilization. The use of social media and the involvement of women...
by James Henry Breasted
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
James Henry Breasted (August 27, 1865 December 2, 1935) was an American archaeologist and historian who focused his career on Egypt and did research into the rise of civilization in the Near East. In 1905, as a member of the University of Chicagos faculty, Breasted was promoted to professor in the...
by Ryan McConnell
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Papyrologists and historians have taken a lively interest in the Apion family (fifth through seventh centuries), who rose from local prominence in rural Middle Egypt to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the Eastern Roman Empire. The focus of most scholarly debate has been...
Contesting Antiquity in Egypt
Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The sensational discovery in 1922 of Tutankhamun's tomb, close on the heels of Britain's declaration of Egyptian independence, accelerated the growth in Egypt of both Egyptology as a formal discipline and of 'pharaonism'-popular interest in ancient Egypt-as an inspiration in the struggle for full...
by Charlotte Booth
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Egypt is extremely popular in the West, with almost everyone having some preconceptions about the country and its history, but questions about the building of the pyramids, the curse of Tutankhamun and Cleopatra's baths of ass's milk are only the tip of the iceberg. The myth of Egypt is often one...
A Portrait of Egypt
A Journey Through the World of Militant Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2000
For centuries Egypt has been a citadel of Islamic learning and thought, and since the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty in 1979, it has been of immense strategic importance to American interests in the Middle East. But Egypt is also a country in crisis, torn between the old and the new,...
The Egyptians
A Radical History of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The award-winning journalist and longtime Cairo resident delivers a “meticulous, passionate study” of the ongoing battle for contemporary Egypt (The Guardian).
On January, 25, 2011, a revolution began in Egypt that succeeded in ousting the country’s longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak. In...
by Ian Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
In the summer of 1972, TV news featured huge crowds queuing patiently on the pavements outside the British Museum to see the Tutankhamun Exhibition. So great was the clamour to see the exhibition that it had to be extended from the planned six months to nine months to accommodate total visitors of...
Traveling Through Egypt
From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
"Egypt is one of the two wings of the world, and the excellences of which it can boast are countless. Its metropolis is the dome of Islam, its river the most splendid of rivers." al-Muqaddasi, c. 1000 To travelers, Egypt is a place of dreams: a country whose lifeblood is a mighty river,...
A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII B.C. 30 (Routledge Revivals)
Vol. II: Egypt Under the Great Pyramid Builders
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the...