Egypt category: 1199 books
Napoleon's Egypt
Invading the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
In this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole delves into the psychology of the military titan and his entourage....
Confronting Fascism in Egypt
Dictatorship versus Democracy in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Confronting Fascism in Egypt offers a new reading of the political and intellectual culture of Egypt during the interwar era. Though scholarship has commonly emphasized Arab political and military support of Axis powers, this work reveals that the shapers of Egyptian public opinion were largely unreceptive...
A History of Ancient Egypt
From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers to the construction of the pyramids. Famed archaeologist John Romer draws on a lifetime of research to tell one history's greatest stories; how, over more than a thousand years,...
by L. W. King, H. R. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
First published in 1906. Continuation of Maspero's History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria. Volume 13 of that series. The thirteen-book series includes over 1200 illustrations. This volume covers: Discovery of Prehistoric Egypt, Abydos and the First Three Dynasties, Memphis and the...
by Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
A GIANT AMONG ADVENTURERS AND EXPLORERS
Among the noted explorers and adventurers of the great age of discovery, few can compare with the Great Belzoni.
No study of the modern exploration of ancient Egypt is complete without his extraordinary work. Once a circus strongman, trained...
by Ahmed Osman
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Contends that the roots of Christian belief come not from Judaea but from Egypt
• Shows that the Romans fabricated their own version of Christianity and burned the Alexandrian library as a way of maintaining political power
• Builds on the arguments of the author's previous books...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
This essential compilation of expert opinion and commentary from over twenty-five government and military reports and papers, totaling over 600 pages. The Muslim Brotherhood's role in the Egyptian uprising of 2011 and the subsequent election of Mohamed Morsi to the Egyptian Presidency has focused...
Wonderful Things
A History of Egyptology: 1: From Antiquity to 1881
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing...
A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII B.C. 30 (Routledge Revivals)
Vol. V: Egypt under Rameses the Great
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 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...
A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII B.C. 30 (Routledge Revivals)
Vol. VIII: Egypt Under the Ptolemies and Cleopatra VII
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...
The Book of the Kings of Egypt (Routledge Revivals)
Vol. I: Dynasties I - XIX
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
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...
A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII B.C. 30 (Routledge Revivals)
Vol. VII: Egypt Under the Saites, Persians and Ptolemies
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 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...
A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII B.C. 30 (Routledge Revivals)
Vol. IV: Egypt and Her Asiatic Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 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...
A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII B.C. 30 (Routledge Revivals)
Vol. III: Egypt Under the Amenemhāts and Hyksos
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 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...