Egypt category: 1199 books
Labib Habachi
The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Labib Habachi, Egypt's most perceptive and productive Egyptologist, was marginalized for most of his career, only belatedly receiving international recognition for his major contributions to the field. In Labib Habachi: The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist, Jill Kamil presents not only a long-overdue...
Origins of the Sphinx
Celestial Guardian of Pre-Pharaonic Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
New research and evidence that the Sphinx is thousands of years older than previously thought
• Contrasts what Egyptologists claim about the Sphinx with historical accounts and new research including reanalysis of seismic studies and updates to Schoch’s water weathering research and Bauval’s...
Moving the Obelisks:
A Chapter in Engineering History in which the Vatican Obelisk in Rome in 1586 was Moved by Muscle Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Dating from the beginning of historical memory, the obelisks of ancient Egypt—those tall, tapering shafts typically weighing from 200 to 500 tons—were carved from a single block of solid stone to commemorate the ruler of the moment.
Many of these ancient monoliths, taken from Egypt as trophies...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A brief preface notes the fascination of men for pyramids in Egypt. Chapter 1 discusses some of these various theories of Giza: time capsules with prophecies, power generators and the ever popular tomb of the Pharaohs. I go with the tombs theory, noting that no clear proof of a successful raiding...
Cairo Pop
Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Cairo Pop is the first book to examine the dominant popular music of Egypt, shababiyya. Scorned or ignored by scholars and older Egyptians alike, shababiyya plays incessantly in Cairo, even while Egyptian youth joined in mass protests against their government, which eventually helped oust longtime Egyptian...
Industrial Sexuality
Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Millions of Egyptian men, women, and children first experienced industrial work, urban life, and the transition from peasant-based and handcraft cultures to factory organization and hierarchy in the years between the two world wars. Their struggles to live in new places, inhabit new customs, and establish...
Au Set of Kemet
The Story of Isis of Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Imagine your life's purpose predetermined before you were even born? Before Au Set was born her mother had planned all she was to be. As the first-born of an ancient legacy in a land called Eshnunna, her life was all designed theologically before she was even born as the oldest daughter of...
by Edwyn Bevan
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
First published in 1927, this title presents a well-regarded study of this intriguing and often over-looked period of Egyptian history, both for the general reader and the student of Hellenism.
Edwyn Bevan describes his work as ‘an attempt to tell afresh the story of a great adventure, Greek...
by George Steindorff, Keith C. Steele
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Here, adequately presented for the first time in English, is the fascinating story of a splendid culture that flourished thirty-five hundred years ago in the empire on the Nile: kings and conquests, gods and heroes, beautiful art, sculpture, poetry, architecture.
Significant archeological discoveries...
Wonderful Things
A History of Egyptology: 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing...
The Greek Exodus from Egypt
Diaspora Politics and Emigration, 1937-1962
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
From the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, Greeks comprised one of the largest and most influential minority groups in Egyptian society, yet barely two thousand remain there today. This painstakingly researched book explains how Egypt’s once-robust Greek population dwindled to virtually...
Lost Voices of the Nile
Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
When we think of ancient Egypt, we think of the gods, the pharaohs and the pyramids. However, life for the average Egyptian was very different from this glorious perception and was not so unrecognisable from the lives we live today. This book tells the history of the ordinary population of ancient...
by Charlotte Booth
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The ancient Egyptians were not that different from people today and were driven by love, romance, good health and family. They got drunk and had hangovers and ‘called in sick’ to work, with elaborate excuses. They suffered with familiar illnesses and were treated with not-so-familiar remedies....
by Aidan Dodson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The royal tombs of ancient Egypt include some of the most stupendous monuments of all time, c