Egypt category: 1199 books
Nationalism and Post-Colonial Identity
Culture and Ideology in India and Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today? What is the role of culture in nationalism? In what ways have the ideological development of nationalisms in the post-colonial world shaped understandings of contemporary political problems such as the rise of...
The Egyptian Revival
Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
In this beautifully illustrated and closely argued book, a completely updated and much expanded third edition of his magisterial survey, Curl describes in lively and stimulating prose the numerous revivals of the Egyptian style from Antiquity to the present day. Drawing on a wealth of sources, his...
Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
Prayers, Incantations, and Other Texts from the Book of the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Presented in easy-to-understand sections, with this book you will discover the magic of ancient Egypt in this comprehensive translation of the real Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Ancient Egyptian**Book of the Dead is a compendium of classic texts by one of the greatest translators and historians...
Egyptian Language (Routledge Revivals)
Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics
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...
by E. A. Wallis Budge
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
For millennia, Egypt, the dark land, has been considered the home of magic. The feats of her priests and magicians were renowned throughout the ancient world, from the simplest legerdemain (according to present interpretation) to the heights of necromancy and sorcery. Even their most severe critics,...
by E. A. Wallis Budge
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
The Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek. Because it presents...
The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus: Vol. I (Routledge Revivals)
The Rosetta Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This is the first of three volumes exploring some of the most remarkable insights into Ancient Egypt to have come to light in modern times. The first two volumes deal with the Rosetta Stone, an outstanding archaeological discovery that has supplied the basis for Egyptian decipherment; the final volume...
The Dwellers on the Nile
The Life, History, Religion and Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
In addition to his 40-year career at the British Museum, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge was a prolific and popular author who specialized in books on ancient Egypt. The Dwellers on the Nile remains among the most comprehensive and readable histories of daily life in ancient Egypt, covering...
The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus: Vol. III (Routledge Revivals)
The Decree of Canopus
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This is the third of three volumes exploring some of the most remarkable insights into Ancient Egypt to have come to light in modern times. The first two volumes deal with the Rosetta Stone, an outstanding archaeological discovery which has supplied the basis for Egyptian decipherment; the final volume...
Egyptian Literature (Routledge Revivals)
Vol. II: Annals of Nubian Kings
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
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...
The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus: Vol. II (Routledge Revivals)
The Rosetta Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This is the second of three volumes exploring some of the most remarkable insights into Ancient Egypt to have come to light in modern times. The first two volumes deal with the Rosetta Stone, an outstanding archaeological discovery which has supplied the basis for Egyptian decipherment; the final...
by Edward William Lane
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
It is now more than one hundred years since Lane gave to the world his admirable work on the Egyptians. It has become a classic, and no writer has given us such unsurpassed descriptions of the manners and customs of the people. Lane went to Egypt in 1825, and adopting the native customs, and with...
by Lewis Spence
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
"Let us walk in the gloom of the pyramids, in the cool shadows of ruined temples, aye, through the tortuous labyrinth of the Egyptian mind itself, trusting that by virtue of the light we carry we shall succeed in unravelling to some extent the age-long enigma of this mystic land." — from...
by Yitzhak Gormezano Goren
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
"A powerful novel of tensionssexual, familial, religious, and politicaland an affecting but unsparing portrait of the petit bourgeois world of Egyptian Jews standing obliviously on the edge of a precipice. Alexandria-sensual and enchanting-shimmers in these pages." -Dalia Sofer, author of...