Egypt category: 1199 books
by JACK MARTIN REID
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
The story is set during the closing years of the eighteenth dynasty in ancient Egypt. It covers the rise of an ambitious child of a farmer, as he successfully climbs the ladder of power, until he wears the crown of the Pharaoh of all Egypt. During his rise, the novel tries to follow the accepted history...
Augustan Egypt
The Creation of a Roman Province
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2005
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Copts and the Security State
Violence, Coercion, and Sectarianism in Contemporary Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the political acts of the Egyptian Coptic minority. Laure Guirguis considers how the state, through its subjugation of Coptic citizens, reproduces a political order...
A City Consumed
Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown stores and businesses appeared to many at the time as an act of urban self-destruction and national suicide. The logic behind this latter view has now...
Babylon of Egypt
The Archaeology of Old Cairo and the Origins of the City (Revised Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book presents a history of Old Cairo based on new archaeological evidence gathered between 2000 and 2006 during a major project to lower the groundwater level affecting the churches and monuments of this area of Cairo known by the Romans as Babylon. Examination of the material and structural...
Legacy of the Moon
The Story of Cleopatra Selene, Book 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Book One
Cleopatra Selene was born to a world of plenty, where all of her wishes were granted. She was a princess of an ancient and powerful family of Egypt. Her own mother was a pharaoh, what else could a girl want more than that. Her whole life was planned out and sung to her by her own...
by E.A.Wallis Budge
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
The following pages are intended to place before the reader in a handy form an account of the principal ideas and beliefs held by the ancient Egyptians concerning the resurrection and the future life, which is derived wholly from native religious works. The literature of Egypt which deals with these...
by Flinders Petrie
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This early work by the British archaeologist, Flinders Petrie, was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Athribis' is a scholarly study on ancient Egypt and archaeological findings. William Matthew Flinders Petrie was...
Egyptian Religion (Routledge Revivals)
Egyptian Ideas of The Future Life
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 Anna Mancini
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
I realized while I was researching Maat, the ancient goddess of justice, how hard it was for Egyptologists to understand most of the ancient Egyptian artifacts only with their conscious mind.
Our modern mental structure bars us from entering and comprehending the logic of ancient peoples. The...
by Edwyn Bevan
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
The Ptolemaic dynasty, sometimes also known as the Lagids or Lagidae, was a Macedonian Greek royal family, which ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt during the Hellenistic period. Their rule lasted for 275 years, from 305 to 30 BC. They were the last dynasty of ancient Egypt.
This is the history of the House of Ptolemy.
by Tarek Osman
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Moses and Pharaoh
Perspectives on Exodus
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Few, if any, lands have a lineage longer or more splendid than ancient Egypt. The domain of the pharaohs has influenced nations near and far, antique and modern. The collision between the overweening pride of a venerable culture and the settled purposes of God, as described in the Book of Exodus,...
by Poo
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.