Egypt category: 1199 books
Miracle of the Ages
The Great Pyramid of Gizeh
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Does this mighty and mysterious “Bible in Stone” record God’s plans for man and prophesy great events in past and future, with exact dates? How does the Great Pyramid’s Message relate to our present crisis and the near future of mankind?
Read the answer in this book, which correlates...
by Major Robert N. Rossi
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This paper analyzes the Mahdist Revolution in the Sudan from 1881 to 1885. Mohammed Ahmed bin Abdallah proclaimed himself the Mahdi (the expected one or the deliverer in the Islamic faith) and fought the colonial Egyptian government of the Sudan and the British. Britain was drawn into the conflict...
The Rescue of Jerusalem
The Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans in 701 BC
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
This little-known story of biblical times is “one of those contingent moments in world history on which whole civilizations pivot” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).
At the turn of the eighth century BC, a mighty Assyrian army entered Judah and fought its way to the very gates of Jerusalem,...
by Henry Habib Ayrout
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Egypt has changed enormously in the last half century, and nowhere more so than in the villages of the Nile Valley. Electrification, radio, and television have brought the larger world into the houses. Government schools have increased educational horizons for the children. Opportunities to work in...
by Nathaniel Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952–1967) examines the impact of revolution on one of the great literary minds of the twentieth century: the Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. Concentrating on the years following the 1952 Free-Officers’ Coup that...
How to Mellify a Corpse
And Other Human Stories of Ancient Science & Superstition
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
In How to Mellify a Corpse, Vicki León brings her particular hybrid of history and humor to the entwined subjects of science and superstition in the ancient world, from Athens and Rome to Mesopotamia, the Holy Land, Egypt, and Carthage. León covers subjects as diverse as astronomy and astrology,...
Creating Medieval Cairo
Empire, Religion, and Architectural Preservation in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux. Addressing...
The 1956 Suez War and the New World Order in the Middle East
Exodus in Reverse
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
The 1956 Suez War, fought between Egypt and the improbable coalition of Britain, France, and Israel, was a key point in the history of the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict. A blitzkrieg-style Israeli victory proved that Israel's victory in the 1948 war was not an accident to be swiftly fixed...
Egyptian Woman
A year in the life of a woman during the reign of Ramesses II
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Following the experiences of Nebetiunet - an Egyptian mother and wife living in the holy city of Waset (Thebes) during the fifth year of the reign of Ramesses II - Egyptian Woman offers a fascinating insight into a year in her busy and remarkable life. When Nebet was orphaned at the age of ten, she...
by Olesya Tkacheva, Lowell H. Schwartz, Martin C. Libicki
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The Internet is a new battleground between governments that censor online content and those who advocate freedom for all to browse, post, and share information online. This report examines how Internet freedom may transform state-society relations in nondemocratic regimes, using case studies of China,...
by Ian Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2007
For anyone who has ever wondered whether they have lived before, the story of Hori,
an Ancient Egyptian priest who lived some 3,500 years ago in Ancient Egypt, at Karnak,
Thebes, is inspiring.
The possibility of reincarnation, of communication beyond the grave in some kind of...
Ancient Egyptian Temple Ritual
Performance, Patterns, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Large state temples in ancient Egypt were vast agricultural estates, with interests in mining, trading, and other economic activities. The temple itself served as the mansion or palace of the deity to whom the estate belonged, and much of the ritual in temples was devoted to offering a representative...
Current Research in Egyptology 2011
Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
The twelfth annual Current Research in Egyptology symposium aimed to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of the field of Egyptology. Papers in these proceedings reflect this multidisciplinarity, with research based on Archaeology, Linguistics, Cultural Astronomy, Historiography, Botany, Religion...
Old Kingdom, New Perspectives
Egyptian Art and Archaeology 2750-2150 BC
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Recent research on all aspects of the Old Kingdom in Egypt is presented in this volume, ranging through the Pyramid Texts, tomb architecture, ceramics, scene choice and layout, field reports, cemetery layout, tomb and temple statuary. The contributions also show how Egyptology is not stuck in its...