Egypt list 58

Sir John Soane’s Museum

An Account of the Sarcophagus of Seti I, B.C. 1370

by Dr. E. A. Wallis Budge
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018

Originally published in 1908, this is an account of the Sarcophagus of Seti I., written by E. A. Wallis Budge, M.A., Litt.D., Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum. Dr. Budge includes in his comprehensive essay a description of the tomb in which the Sarcophagus was...

The Etruscan

by Mika Waltari
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016

First published in 1956, The Etruscan is a fiction novel by Finnish author Mika Waltari. Beginning around 480 B.C., the story takes us on the spiritual journey of a young man named Lars Turms as he adventures through Ancient Greece to Sicily, Rome and, finally, Tuscany, searching for the meaning of...

Everyday Things in Ancient Greece [Second Edition]

by Marjorie Quennell, C. H. B. Quennell
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017

First published in 1954, this is the Second Edition of the single-volume amalgamation of husband-and-wife team Marjorie and Charles Quinnells’ three-volume anthology on Greek antiquity, originally between 1929-1932: Everyday Things in Homeric Greece, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece, and Everyday...

The Island of the Innocent

A Novel of Greek and Jew in the Time of the Maccabees

by Dr. Vardis Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018

A MIGHTY NOVEL OF PERSECUTION AND MASSACRE AND A LOVE THAT DEFIED DEATH! THEY MET IN JERUSALEM A young Greek doctor, devoted to the pleasures of the senses and the intellect, and a passionate, pious daughter of Israel. Hopelessly in love, their beliefs were irreconcilable—until the...

Greek Ideals and Modern Life

by Sir R. W. Livingstone
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016

This book represents a collection of lectures delivered between October 1-4, 1934 by the author, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone, on the Charles Martin Foundation at Oberlin College, Ohio. The book was first published a year later in 1935. Sir Livingstone was then President of Corpus Christi College...

Trans-Saharan Africa in World History

by Ralph A. Austen
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010

During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic--the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial highways, bringing gold, slaves,...

Concubines and Courtesans

Women and Slavery in Islamic History

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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays that consider, from a variety of viewpoints, enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays bring together arguments regarding slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production (songs, poetry and instrumental...

El Louvre y la Biblia - Antigüedades egipcias, Antigüedades griegas y romanas

Un lector de la Biblia visita el Louvre, Desde la antigua Babilonia Hasta el cristianismo original

by Philippe Mattmann
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 4, 2017

Un recorrido inédito y original ! ¿ Qué ver en el Louvre? ¿ Cómo orientarse en este laberinto inmenso de objetos y de testimonios del pasado? La Biblia demuestra ser una guía original y pertinente para descifrar fragmentos de la historia de laantigüedad. Por ejemplo,...

The Lost Way

How Two Forgotten Gospels Are Rewriting the Story of Christian Origins

by Stephen J. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014

In this rigorously researched and thoughtful study, a leading Jesus Seminar scholar reveals the dramatic story behind the modern discovery of the earliest gospels, accounts that do not portray Jesus exclusively as a martyr but recover a lost ancient Christian tradition centered on Jesus as a teacher...

Female Homosexuality in the Middle East

Histories and Representations

by Samar Habib
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012

This book, the first full-length study of its kind, dares to probe the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality. Habib argues that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth...

Snorkel the World: Red Sea Coral Reef Guide

The snorkellers' guide to the marine life of the Red Sea reefs

by David Revill
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012

Snorkel the World: Red Sea Coral Reef Guide is the ideal companion for anyone venturing to the Red Sea on holiday, or anybody fascinated by the Red Sea's famous coral reefs. It's the only guidebook around specifically for those of us who enjoy getting up close and personal with the underwater world...

Top 10 Cairo and the Nile

by DK Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Cairo and the Nile will lead you straight to the very best this area has to offer. The guide is divided by area with restaurant reviews for each, as well as recommendations for hotels, cafes, and places to shop. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists, from the Top...

Scarabs

by Isaac Myer
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015

The following work is taken in part, from an address delivered by me before, The American Numismatic and Archeological Society, at its Hall in the City of New York, on March 30th, 1893. Since that time I have been led into a train of thought, having as its basis a more philosophical treatment of the...

Pharaohs, Fellahs & Explorers

by Amelia
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013

First published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.