Egypt category: 1199 books
The Language of Ruins
Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Memnon Colossus
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A colossal statue, originally built to honor an ancient pharaoh, still stands today in Egyptian Thebes, with more than a hundred Greek and Latin inscriptions covering its lower surfaces. Partially damaged by an earthquake, and later re-identified as the Homeric hero Memnon, it was believed to "speak"...
Women of the Midan
The Untold Stories of Egypt's Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
While there are many books on the Egyptian revolution and the Arab Spring movement, this work focuses on the testimonies of women revolutionaries, the social and political discourses about women that circulated during the revolution, and the often-brutal encounter women faced during the uprising.
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by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
E.A. Wallis Budge was an English philologist and writer who worked for the British museum. Budge wrote and translated a lot of works on the ancient East after taking multiple trips to Egypt and the Sudan. This edition of The Egyptian Book of the Dead was translated by Budge and includes a table of contents and illustrations from the text.
by A. Lucas, J. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
The majesty and splendor of ancient Egypt were largely the result of the remarkably advanced technological skills developed by its artisans and craftsmen. This fascinating, comprehensive, and detailed study of ancient Egyptian technology meticulously describes the extent to which these workers and...
The Muslim Brotherhood and the West
A History of Enmity and Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
The Muslim Brotherhood and the West is the first comprehensive history of the relationship between the world’s largest Islamist movement and the Western powers that have dominated the Middle East for the past century: Britain and the United States. In the decades since the Brotherhood emerged in...
Fustat Finds
Beads, Coins, Medical Instruments, Textiles, and Other Artifacts from the Awad Collection
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Corroded pieces of metal, stamped lumps of copper, broken bits of glass with partial inscriptions, fragments of textiles, tiny beads-these were the raw material found at al-Fustat, the site of the first Muslim settlement in Egypt in the seventh century and the heart of Cairo for many centuries following....
Invention and Innovation
The Social Context of Technological Change 2: Egypt, the Aegean and the Near East, 1650-1150 B.C.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
In September 2002, a second workshop on the theme of the social context of technological change was held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. Discussion has been the core of these meetings so far, with the aim being to relate the results of the specialist...
by Julia Chyla, Karolina Rosińska-Balik, Joanna Debowska-Ludwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This volume reflects the most recent state of research on ancient Egypt presented and discussed at the international conference Current Research on Egyptology XVII, May 2016. Nine papers are arranged chronologically covering the wide time span from the Predynastic till the Graeco-Roman Period, with...
The Curse of the Pharaohs' Tombs
Tales of the unexpected since the days of Tutankhamun
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
The Curse of the Pharaoh’s Tombs is the definitive book on Ancient Egyptian tomb curses, providing new information and data never before published whilst exploring the many incidents and deaths associated with tomb curses. The book puts the record straight on matters which have been wrongly recorded...
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Letters of Travel, 1892-1913, originally published in 1920, is a collection of articles on Japan, the United States, Canada and Egypt.
Knowledge is Light
Travellers in the Near East
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
For thousands of years travellers wandered to, and spread out through, Egypt and the Near East, seeking trade, adventure and knowledge. For centuries travellers to - and from - the Near East carried knowledge with them and then carried home the new knowledge acquired in the region. And knowledge,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Senneferi was the chancellor of the king in Thebes (modern Luxor) in the reign of Thutmose III (c. 1430 BC). His large but badly damaged tomb lies in the hill of Sheikh Abdel Qurna on the West Bank at Luxor. This first of two volumes focuses on the use of the tomb complex during the New Kingdom, especially...
by Geoffrey Killen
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In this third volume Dr Killen investigates how woodworking in ancient Egypt developed in the 19th and 20th dynasties. It establishes the range of wooden furniture manufactured during this period by surveying examples depicted in Ramesside Theban and Memphite tombs. Ancient records show how the procurement...
Tutankhamun's Tomb and the Curse of the Mummies
History Short Reads, #2
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
An almost unknown pharaoh, a hidden tomb beneath the sands of the desert, a treasure like no one had seen before. The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb supposed undoubtedly the most spectacular achievement of archeology of the twentieth century, and despite what many think was not a chance finding,...