Daily Life In Ancient Egypt

Author : Kasia Szpakowska
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405118569

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Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Kasia Szpakowska Pdf

Using the life of a young girl and her family as a model, this book recreates the daily life of the middle-class residents of the ancient town of Lahun during Egypt’s Middle Kingdom period. This perfect snapshot in time has been painstakingly recreated using recently published textual data and archaeological findings. Provides an illuminating and engaging re-construction of what daily life was like in ancient Egypt Describes the main issues of everyday life in the town - from education, work, and food preparation to religious rituals, healing techniques, marriages, births, and deaths Authentically recreated through the use of recently published textual data and archaeological findings directly from the settlement of Lahun and other sites Includes photographs and illustrations of actual artifacts from the settlement of Lahun

Author : Bob M. Brier,Hoyt Hobbs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313353079

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Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians by Bob M. Brier,Hoyt Hobbs Pdf

Explore the daily lives of ancient Egyptians in this exciting new update of one of the most successful Daily Life titles. Through reconstructions based on the hieroglyphic inscriptions, paintings from tombs, and scenes from temple walls, readers can examine social and material existence in one of the world's oldest civilizations. Narrative chapters explore the preparation of food and drink, religious ceremonies and cosmology, work and play, the arts, military domination, and intellectual accomplishments. With material garnered from recent excavations and research, including new content on construction, pyramid building, ship building, and metallurgy, this up-to-date volume caters to the ever-evolving needs of today's readers. A timeline, an extensive research center bibliography, and over 20 new photos make this a must-have reference source for modern students of ancient history. Explore the daily lives of ancient Egyptians in this exciting update of one of the most successful Daily Life titles. Through reconstructions based on the hieroglyphic inscriptions, paintings from tombs, and scenes from temple walls, readers can explore social and material existence in one of the world's oldest civilizations. Narrative chapters explore the preparation of food and drink, religious ceremonies and cosmology, work and play, the arts, military domination, and intellectual accomplishments. With information garnered from recent excavations and research, including new content on construction, pyramid building, ship building, and metallurgy, this up-to-date volume caters to the ever-evolving needs of today's readers. A timeline, an extensive research center bibliography, and over 20 new photos make this a must-have reference source for modern students of ancient history.

Author : Lionel Casson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0801866014

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Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt by Lionel Casson Pdf

Originally published in 1975 as The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt, this revised edition includes a new chapter as well as full documentation of the sources.

Author : Peter Lacovara
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610692304

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The World of Ancient Egypt [2 volumes] by Peter Lacovara Pdf

This absorbing reference covers everyday life in ancient Egypt, spanning a period of more than 5,000 years—from the Stone Age to the advent of Christianity. The mysteries surrounding ancient Egypt continue to pique interest and prompt study thousands of years later. Intriguing questions—such as "Why were certain Egyptians mummified after death, while others were not?", "How were the pyramids constructed?", and "Were sexuality and courtship accurately portrayed in movies about the period?"—incite curiosity and inspire the imagination in the modern world. This comprehensive encyclopedia addresses these questions and more, revealing fascinating facts about all aspects of daily life in ancient Egypt. Starting with the beginning of the First Dynasty to the death of Cleopatra, this compendium explores the family life, politics, religion, and culture of the Nile Valley from Aswan to the Delta, as well as the peripheral areas of Nubia, the Oases, the Sinai, and the southern Levant. Each topical section opens with an introductory essay, followed by A–Z entries on such topics as food, fashion, housing, politics, and community. The book features a timeline of events, an extensive bibliography of print and digital resources, and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout.

Author : Don Nardo
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9781406288131

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Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Don Nardo Pdf

This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in Ancient Egypt. Using primary sources and information from archeological discoveries, it uncovers some fascinating insights and explodes some myths. Supported by timelines, maps and references to important events and people, children will really feel they are on a time-travelling journey when reading this book.

Author : Barbara Mertz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062087164

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Red Land, Black Land by Barbara Mertz Pdf

A fascinating, erudite, and witty glimpse of the human side of ancient Egypt—this acclaimed classic work is now revised and updated for a new generation Displaying the unparalleled descriptive power, unerring eye for fascinating detail, keen insight, and trenchant wit that have made the novels she writes (as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels) perennial New York Times bestsellers, internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz brings a long-buried civilization to vivid life. In Red Land, Black Land, she transports us back thousands of years and immerses us in the sights, aromas, and sounds of day-to-day living in the legendary desert realm that was ancient Egypt. Who were these people whose civilization has inspired myriad films, books, artwork, myths, and dreams, and who built astonishing monuments that still stagger the imagination five thousand years later? What did average Egyptians eat, drink, wear, gossip about, and aspire to? What were their amusements, their beliefs, their attitudes concerning religion, childrearing, nudity, premarital sex? Mertz ushers us into their homes, workplaces, temples, and palaces to give us an intimate view of the everyday worlds of the royal and commoner alike. We observe priests and painters, scribes and pyramid builders, slaves, housewives, and queens—and receive fascinating tips on how to perform tasks essential to ancient Egyptian living, from mummification to making papyrus. An eye-opening and endlessly entertaining companion volume to Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs, Mertz's extraordinary history of ancient Egypt, Red Land, Black Land offers readers a brilliant display of rich description and fascinating edification. It brings us closer than ever before to the people of a great lost culture that was so different from—yet so surprisingly similar to—our own.

Author : Jon Manchip White
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486143576

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Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt by Jon Manchip White Pdf

Remarkably accurate picture of Egyptian life from the end of the third millenium BC to the Greek occupation in 330 BC. "A handy reference tool." — Horn Book. 120 illustrations.

Author : Pierre Montet
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0812211138

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Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses The Great by Pierre Montet Pdf

A classic study of daily life in ancient Egypt, Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses the Great is the masterwork of the dean of modern Egyptologists, Pierre Montet. Renowned for its accuracy and scope, this book conveys the richness and complexity of ancient Egyptian life. The book focuses on the era of the great builders at Karnak and Luxor, the Ramesside kings (ca. 1314-1090 B.C.) and surveys both upper and lower Egypt to give a comprehensive picture of pharaonic society. Montet combines studies of monuments and tombs with data from pictorial and literary sources, including papyrus documents, to depict the experiences of royalty, priests, urban artisans and professionals, peasants and slaves. Here, too, are colorful descriptions of dwelling places, seasonal activities, holiday observances, family life, travel, justice, warfare, and the rites of burial—all enhanced by Montet's appreciation for the ancient Egyptian way of life.

Author : Dimitri Meeks,Christine Favard-Meeks
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0801482488

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Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods by Dimitri Meeks,Christine Favard-Meeks Pdf

Upset it, with individual gods acting to protect their own positions in an established hierarchy and struggling to gain power over their fellows. The nature of their immortal but not vulnerable bodies, their pleasures, and their needs are considered. What did they eat, the authors ask, and did they feel pain? The second part of the book cites familiar traditions and littleknown texts to explain the relationship of the gods to the pharaoh, who was believed to represent.

Author : Don Nardo
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781406288186

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Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Don Nardo Pdf

This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in Ancient Egypt. Using primary sources and information from archeological discoveries, it uncovers some fascinating insights and explodes some myths. Supported by timelines, maps and references to important events and people, children will really feel they are on a time-travelling journey when reading this book.

Author : Lisa K. Sabbahy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216071525

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Daily Life of Women in Ancient Egypt by Lisa K. Sabbahy Pdf

Readable and scholarly, this up-to-date book covers every aspect of the life of women in ancient Egypt. This book focuses on the life of women in ancient Egypt, while also putting forth a vast array of information about ancient Egyptians in general. Readers begin with a short but thorough introduction to the three great periods of Pharaonic civilization: the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom. Main chapters include the newest evidence scholars have uncovered at important archeological sites in ancient Egypt. The scope of this book is wide and all inclusive, even though it is focused on the life of ancient Egyptian women. The topics in the book cover a vast amount of the knowledge we have about the ancient Egyptians, including material on architecture, art, law, education, medicine, food, religion, music, and spiritual beliefs. It is important to point out that royal women are only discussed in one chapter, so that more "ordinary" ancient Egyptians are the focus of the book. This book is also designed to be readable for people without any background knowledge of the time period. Any reader interested in ancient Egypt will discover a great deal of material.

Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781622751563

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Egyptian Gods & Goddesses by Britannica Educational Publishing Pdf

Gods and goddesses—in human, animal, and other forms—were central to the ancient Egyptian way of life. Identified with the natural world, daily living, and the afterlife, they maintained order and prevented chaos from permeating the human world. The figures documented in ancient hieroglyphics are given dimension in this absorbing volume, which examines the characteristics and significance of many of the Egyptian gods and goddesses and also looks at related topics such as ancient symbols and the influence of Egyptian mythology on other cultures and belief systems.

Author : Evžen Strouhal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 0853239916

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Life of the Ancient Egyptians by Evžen Strouhal Pdf

Few studies of ancient Egypt cover so broad a scope as this exceptional insight into everyday life in ancient Egypt. The text is complemented by many illustrations of artefacts, works of art, and scenes of life in ancient Egypt as recorded in tomb reliefs and paintings on papyri. Werner Forman’s superb photographs were taken specially for this volume in Egypt and in the great public and private collections.

Author : John Romer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Deir el-Medina (Egypt)
ISBN : 1854799274

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Ancient Lives by John Romer Pdf

More than 3000 years ago, a village was established at Thebes, on the west bank of the Nile, to house the workers who created the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. This book relates their quarrels and rivalries, sickness and health, marriages and deaths, and the effects of flood, pillage and war.

Author : Herbert E. Winlock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Egypt
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002442833

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Models of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Herbert E. Winlock Pdf