Egypt category: 1199 books
by Howard Carter
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
VOLUME THREE: TREASURY AND ANNEX
Your journey through the discovery of Tutankhamun cannot be complete without Volume III.
In this third and final volume of Howard Carter's classic work on his historic discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, he gets down to the details of the objects...
Egyptian Archaeology
Illustrated Guide to the Study of Egyptology
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
This book is dedicated to the study of Ancient Egyptian archaeology and gives insight into civil, military and religious architecture of Egypt as well as the information about Egyptian tombs, painting, sculpture and industrial arts. Contents: Architecture--Civil and Military Houses Fortresses Public...
by William Petrie.
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1906 edition by John Murray, London. This is an illustrated edition. William Matthew Flinders Petrie, (1853 – 1942) an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts. This is an account of his expedition in Egypt and the Sinai, his discoveries as well as the people inhabiting that land.
Circling the Square
Stories from the Egyptian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
What happened to the promise of Tahrir Square and the Arab Spring?
On January 25, 2011, the world was watching Cairo. Egyptians of every stripe came together in Tahrir Square to protest Hosni Mubarak's three decades of brutal rule. After many hopeful, turbulent years, however, Egypt seems to...
Warships of the Ancient World
3000–500 BC
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The world's first war machines were ships built two millennia before the dawn of the Classical world. Their influence on the course of history cannot be overstated. A wide variety of galleys and other types of warships were built by successive civilisations, each with their own distinctive appearance,...
North Africa, Revised Edition
A History from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
North Africa has been a vital crossroads throughout history, serving as a connection between Africa, Asia, and Europe. Paradoxically, however, the region's historical significance has been chronically underestimated. In a book that may lead scholars to reimagine the concept of Western civilization, incorporating...
Marcus Simaika
Father of Coptic Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Marcus Pasha Simaika (1864-1944) was born to a prominent Coptic family on the eve of the inauguration of the Suez Canal and the British occupation of Egypt. From a young age, he developed a passion for Coptic heritage and devoted his life to shedding light on centuries of Christian Egyptian history...
by Colonel A. Braghine
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
First published in 1940, this is one of the great classics of Atlantis research. It amasses a great deal of archaeological, anthropological, historical and scientific evidence in support of a lost continent in the Atlantic Ocean. Braghine covers such diverse topics as Egyptians in Central America,...
Following Osiris
Perspectives on the Osirian Afterlife from Four Millennia
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Osiris, god of the dead, was one of ancient Egypt's most important deities. The earliest secure evidence for belief in him dates back to the fifth dynasty (c.2494-2345BC), but he continued to be worshipped until the fifth century AD. Following Osiris is concerned with ancient Egyptian conceptions...
Sacred Symbols of the Dogon
The Key to Advanced Science in the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Dogon cosmology provides a new Rosetta stone for reinterpreting Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Provides a new understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs as scientific symbols based on Dogon cosmological drawings
• Use parallels between Dogon and Egyptian word meanings to identify relationships...
Egyptian Hieroglyphic Grammar
A Handbook for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This handbook begins with a discussion of the nature of Middle Egyptian and its script, followed by instructions for forming nouns, pronouns, adjectives, numerals, verbs, and other grammatic elements. A list of hieroglyphs, a vocabulary section, and reading exercises complete a book that will aid students or anyone interested in ancient Egypt.
by Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This book is intended to serve as an elementary edition for all studies of Egyptian Literature. Its object is to present a short series of specimens of Egyptian compositions, which represent all the great periods of literary activity in Egypt under the Pharaohs, to all who are interested in the study...
The Tell El Amarna Period
The Relations of Egypt and Western Asia in the Fifteenth Century B.C. According to The Tell El Amarna Tablets
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Under this title is being issued a series of short, popular, but thoroughly scientific studies, by the leading scholars of Germany, setting forth the recent discoveries and investigations in Babylonian, Assyrian and Egyptian History, Religion, and Archeology, especially as they bear upon the traditional...
The Ancient Egyptian Family
Kinship and Social Structure
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
Scholars in Egyptology have often debated the following question: was the ancient Egyptian society organized along patrilineal or matrilineal lines? In taking a fresh and innovative look at the ancient Egyptian family, Allen attempts to solve this long-standing puzzle. Allen argues that the matrilineal...