Egypt And The Desert

Author : John Coleman Darnell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1108820530

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Egypt and the Desert by John Coleman Darnell Pdf

Deserts, the Red Land, bracket the narrow strip of alluvial Black Land that borders the Nile. Networks of desert roads ascended to the high desert from the Nile Valley, providing access to the mineral wealth and Red Sea ports of the Eastern Desert, the oasis depressions and trade networks of the Western Desert. A historical perspective from the Predynastic through the Roman Periods highlights how developments in the Nile Valley altered the Egyptian administration and exploitation of the deserts. For the ancient Egyptians, the deserts were a living landscape, and at numerous points along the desert roads, the ancient Egyptians employed rock art and rock inscriptions to create and mark places. Such sites provide considerable evidence for the origin of writing in northeast Africa, the religious significance of the desert and expressions of personal piety, and the development of the early alphabet.

Author : Renée F. Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : UCSC:32106018322740

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Egypt and Nubia by Renée F. Friedman Pdf

This book originates in an international colloquium held in the British Museum in 1998. It comprises eighteen papers, written by leading scholars, each of whom explores an aspect of the use and exploitation of the deserts lying to the east and west of the Nile Valley by the ancient Egyptians and their prehistoric ancestors. Dr Renee Friedman is Heagy Research Curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum.

Author : David Sims
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781617978845

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Egypt’s Desert Dreams by David Sims Pdf

Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country’s problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all have been promoted for over half a century to create a modern Egypt and to pull tens of millions of people away from the increasingly crowded Nile Valley into the desert hinterland. The results, in spite of colossal expenditures and ever-grander government pronouncements, have been meager at best, and today Egypt’s desert is littered with stalled schemes, abandoned projects, and forlorn dreams. It also remains stubbornly uninhabited. Egypt’s Desert Dreams is the first attempt of its kind to look at Egypt’s desert development in its entirety. It recounts the failures of governmental schemes, analyzes why they have failed, and exposes the main winners of Egypt’s desert projects, as well as the underlying narratives and political necessities behind it, even in the post-revolutionary era. It also shows that all is not lost, and that there are alternative paths that Egypt could take.

Author : Paul William Roberts
Publisher : Raincoast Books
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 1551929635

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River in the Desert by Paul William Roberts Pdf

Egypt is as old as history itself. It is home to some of the world's greatest treasures, a pantheon of dazzling gods and kings, and the roots of the civilised world. This book is the author's account of his travels through Egypt, delving into the hidden depths of this great country - at once familiar and yet unknown.

Author : Abdelazim Negm,Ahmed Elkhouly
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030776220

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Groundwater in Egypt’s Deserts by Abdelazim Negm,Ahmed Elkhouly Pdf

This book brings together contributions from groundwater researchers and scientists on underground water resources in Egypt's deserts. The aquifers' quantity and quality are evaluated in many regions of the Egyptian deserts using established methods that can be effectively employed to investigate the potential for sustainable development in Egypt and similarly arid countries. The water resources in Egypt's deserts are subject to deterioration, mainly by land salinization and water deficiency. This book presents the best management practices, water quantity and quality, and optimal and sustainable usage of available groundwater. The book offers a unique guide for all readers interested in groundwater, modeling, and assessment for sustainable development in Egypt and countries with similar weather and water conditions.

Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062362391

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Desert God by Wilbur Smith Pdf

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Author : Hélène Cuvigny
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479810673

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Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert by Hélène Cuvigny Pdf

A detailed archaeological study of life in Egypt's Eastern desert during the Roman period by a leading scholar Rome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert is a two-volume set collecting Hélène Cuvigny’s most important articles on Egypt’s Eastern Desert during the Roman period. The excavations she directed uncovered a wealth of material, including tens of thousands of texts written on pottery fragments (ostraca). Some are administrative texts, but many more are correspondence, both official and private, written by and to the people (mostly but not all men) who lived and worked in these remote and harsh environments, supported by an elaborate network of defense, administration, and supply that tied the entire region together. The contents of Rome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert have all been published earlier in peer-reviewed venues, but most appear here for the first time in English. All of the contributions have been checked or translated by the editor and brought up to date with respect to bibliography, and some have been significantly rewritten by the author, in order to take account of the enormous amount of new material discovered since the original publications. A full index makes this body of work far more accessible than it was before. This book assembles into one collection thirty years of detailed study of this material, conjuring in vivid detail the lived experience of those who inhabited these forts—often through their own expressive language—and the realia of desert geography, military life, sex, religion, quarry operations, and imperial administration in the Roman world.

Author : Christine Luckritz Marquis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812298239

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Death of the Desert by Christine Luckritz Marquis Pdf

In the late fourth century, the world of Christianity was torn apart by debate over the teachings of the third-century theologian Origen and his positions on the incorporeality of God. In the year 400, Archbishop Theophilus of Alexandria convened a council declaring Origen's later followers as heretics. Shortly thereafter, Theophilus banished the so-called Tall Brothers, four Origenist monks who led monastic communities in the western Egyptian desert, along with hundreds of their brethren. In some accounts, Theophilus leads a violent group of drunken youths and enslaved Ethiopians in sacking and desecrating the monastery; in others, he justly exercises his episcopal duties. In some versions, Theophilus' violent actions effectively bring the Golden Age of desert monasticism to an end; in others, he has shown proper respect for the desert fathers, whose life of asceticism is subsequently destroyed by bands of barbarian marauders. For some, the desert came to be inextricably connected to violence and trauma, while for others, it became a site of nostalgic recollection. Which of these narratives subsequent generations believed depended in good part on the sources they were reading. In Death of the Desert, Christine Luckritz Marquis offers a fresh examination of this critical juncture in Christian history and brings into dialogue narrative strands that have largely been separated in the scholarly tradition. She takes the violence perpetrated by Theophilus as a turning point for desert monasticism and considers how monks became involved in acts of violence and how that violence came back to haunt them. More broadly, her careful attention to the dynamic relations between memory practices, the rhetorical constructions of place, racialized discourse, and language and deeds of violence speak to us in our own time.

Author : Tamer Mahmoud
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9774163508

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Desert Plants of Egypt's Wadi El Gemal National Park by Tamer Mahmoud Pdf

The vegetation in Wadi El Gemal National Park in Egypt's Eastern Desert is more diverse than might first be expected, but even more surprising is the relationship that the desert dwellers continue to have with the plant life in their habitat, despite the increasing modernization of their world. As a ranger in the park, Tamer Mahmoud quickly realized the importance of surveying, identifying, and documenting the indigenous plants, and recording the information he compiled from interviews with the local community about how they use the plants for food, healing, animal fodder, and fuel. The result is this detailed and colorful guide, which includes photographs of each plant, the scientific name and local name in Arabic and English, and information on location, distribution, uses, and ecology. A glossary, bibliography, visitors' information section and distribution maps make this a comprehensive reference work that will interest visitors, scientists, anyone interested in the flora of arid areas, and even anthropologists.

Author : Henry Martyn Field
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Egypt
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018175851

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On the Desert by Henry Martyn Field Pdf

Field describes here his travels in the Arabian Peninsula. He provides political commentary on Egypt and some historically-based discussions, such as the history of legal punishment in a given place.

Author : Russell D. Rothe,William K. Miller,George Robert Rapp
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Inscriptions, Egyptian
ISBN : 9781575061474

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Pharaonic Inscriptions from the Southern Eastern Desert of Egypt by Russell D. Rothe,William K. Miller,George Robert Rapp Pdf

The University of Minnesota Eastern Desert Expedition had its beginnings in 1975, when co-authors George (Rip) Rapp, T. H. Wertime, and J. D. Muhly visited cassiterite (tin ore) mines in the southern Eastern Desert of Egypt. Near the farthest west of these mines, they were shown a group of pharaonic inscriptions by M. F. el-Ramly of the Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority. The inscriptions were photographed, and the photos were given to an Egyptologist to translate. Much later, in 1991, senior author Russell D. Rothe read about the photos in a footnote in an unrelated article. After obtaining copies of the photos from Rapp, he translated the inscriptions with the help of co-author William K. Miller and others. Over the next decade, Rothe, Rapp, and Miller traversed the 60,000-sq.-km area between the Nile and the Red Sea, mostly on foot, photographing inscriptions and systematically surveying the entire region. The results of their investigations of the inscriptional remains found in this vast, mountainous desert are here published for the first time; the corpus will be an important addition to our knowledge of the range and scope of the activities of the ancient Egyptians, especially outside the Nile Valley.

Author : M.A. Zahran,A.J. Willis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401580663

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The Vegetation of Egypt by M.A. Zahran,A.J. Willis Pdf

This book is an attempt to compile and integrate the information documented by many botanists, both Egyptians and others, about the vegetation of Egypt. The first treatise on the flora of Egypt, by Petrus Forsskäl, was published in 1775. Records of the Egyptian flora made during the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt (1778-1801) were provided by AR. Delile from 1809 to 1812 (Kassas, 1981). The early beginning of ecological studies of the vegetation of Egypt extended to the mid-nineteenth century. Two traditions may be re cognized. The first was general exploration and survey, for which one name is symbolic: Georges-Auguste Schweinfurth (1836-1925), a German scientist and explorer who lived in Egypt from 1863 to 1914. The second tradition was ecophysiological to explain the plant life in the dry desert. The work of G. Volkens (1887) remains a classic on xerophytism. These two traditions were maintained and expanded in further phases of ecological development associated with the es tablishment of the Egyptian University in 1925 (now the University the Swedish Gunnar of Cairo). The first professor of botany was Täckholm (1925-1929). He died young, and his wife Vivi Täckholm devoted her life to studying the flora of Egypt and gave leadership and inspiration to plant taxonomists in Egypt for some 50 years. She died in 1978. The second professor of botany in Egypt was F. W. Oliver (1929- 1932) followed by the British ecologist F. J. Lewis (1935-1947).

Author : Daniel Adolphus Lange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Egypt
ISBN : OXFORD:600038767

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Reflections in the Egyptian Desert by Daniel Adolphus Lange Pdf

Author : Marc M. Angelil,Deane Simpson,Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : City planning
ISBN : 3944074238

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Cairo Desert Cities by Marc M. Angelil,Deane Simpson,Charlotte Malterre-Barthes Pdf

Since the 1950s, Egypt has developed a dozen new towns in the desert outside of Cairo. Intended to alleviate a growing demand for housing in the capital, most have never been completed. Edited by Marc Angélil and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, this book presents the first systematic exploration of these cities, analysing their architecture and urban form, along with their possibilities and shortcomings. Describing their condition as 'permanently emerging', the study identifies the towns' potential through a series of design scenarios which underscore the value of re-engaging with modernist town planning, in hopes that examining past failures uncovers future opportunities.

Author : Arita Baaijens
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9774162110

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Desert Songs by Arita Baaijens Pdf

Arita Baaijens gave up her job as an environmentalist nearly twenty years ago, and has been exploring the deserts of Egypt and Sudan with her small camel caravan ever since. In Desert Songs she recounts her passion for the desert, the place she loves and fears. On one level Desert Songs reads as an ode to camels, vistas and horizons, nomads and exploration. On another it is a story about an inward journey, a rite of passage. It is about leaving the world you know to venture into the unknown where you discover your true strength. How strong are you when there's no backup? Where do your limits lie? Baaijens sets out on a voyage of self-discovery and unrelenting physical trials to find the answers. The experience changes her forever.