Faces Of Pharaohs

Author : Robert B. Partridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Coffins
ISBN : UOM:39076001836670

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Faces of Pharaohs by Robert B. Partridge Pdf

At the end of the 19th century Egyptologists discovered, in two robbed tombs at Luxor, the remains of over 40 mummies dating from the 17th to the 21st Dynasties (1580 BC to 940 BC). These included the bodies of Ahmose, Thutmose III, Amenhotep II and III, Seti I, Ramesses II and III, and Merneptah. This book brings together for the first time all the photographs of the unique collection of mummies and coffins found in the two `Royal Caches' and other royal burials which include Yuya, Thuya and Tutankhamun. Each mummy and coffin is described in detail with brief information about the tomb. Diseases and ailments, mummification techniques and the very origins of the process are covered. Other topics featured are the problems of identification, conservation of remains, and reconstructing lifetime appearance.

Author : Hugh McLeave
Publisher : Michael Joseph
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033856787

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The Last Pharaoh by Hugh McLeave Pdf

Author : Krzysztof Jerzy Radtke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Pharaohs in art
ISBN : 3447118016

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The Iconography of the Pharaoh's Face in the Eighteenth Dynasty Relief by Krzysztof Jerzy Radtke Pdf

The principal aim of this study is to present a novel method for exploiting a grid of 256 (16x16) square modules used to measure two-dimensional human face, with implementation to the Egyptian royal portrait in relief. Most of the underlying principles of the proposed method, in particular, the use of a square grid understood as a uniform measuring tool of a standardised internal structure and a set of constant points of measurement, are connected with the research conducted by Erik Iversen, Roland Tefnin and Gay Robins. The major part of the study shows a detailed description of the proposed research method and an analysis of the measurements taken in compliance with the criteria stipulated therein. Comparison of the values of all selected measurements within a given portrait of a ruler with the values of corresponding points from other portraits dated to the same period constitutes the key element of the analysis. The results are then compared with the values of the measurements of reliefs of the remaining Eighteenth Dynasty kings acquired according to the same method. In order to expand the research perspective selected examples of application of the hypothetical square grid for the analysis of painted royal portrait are presented. The concluding remarks have been formulated in a relevant manner to answer the fundamental question of this study, namely, whether and to what extent the method could serve as an auxiliary tool for dating and identification of pharaohs' portraits carved in relief or made with the use of painting technique.

Author : Kara Cooney
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426221972

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The Good Kings by Kara Cooney Pdf

Written in the tradition of historians like Stacy Schiff and Amanda Foreman who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the country's 3,000-year empire and its meaning today.

Author : Tine Bagh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art, Egyptian
ISBN : 8774523546

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Pharaoh by Tine Bagh Pdf

In an impressive special exhibition the Glyptotek gives a glimpse into the power structures, god-worship and everyday life in Ancient Egypt when Pharaoh reigned as a personified god and undisputed authority.00Ancient Egypt has always fascinated us. Not least the legendary pharaohs ? the kings who ruled over them all, who were more gods than human beings ? were the subject of many tales through the ages. In the exhibition, ?Pharaoh ? the Face of Power? we examine the period 2000-1700 BC, known as the ?Middle Kingdom? when the Egyptian realm rose again after a period of decline, and strong pharaohs united the country with centralised power. Here visitors can experience how, 4000 years ago, it was possible to construct personal myths and manage to rule a people ? with absolutely no help from spin doctors, the press or the social media.00Exhibition: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark (12.10.2017-25.02.2018).

Author : Joyce Tyldesley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674983755

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Nefertiti’s Face by Joyce Tyldesley Pdf

Little is known about Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen whose name means “a beautiful woman has come.” She was the wife of Akhenaten, the pharaoh who ushered in the dramatic Amarna Age, and she bore him at least six children. She played a prominent role in political and religious affairs, but after Akhenaten’s death she apparently vanished and was soon forgotten. Yet Nefertiti remains one of the most famous and enigmatic women who ever lived. Her instantly recognizable face adorns a variety of modern artifacts, from expensive jewelry to cheap postcards, t-shirts, and bags, all over the world. She has appeared on page, stage, screen, and opera. In Britain, one woman has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on plastic surgery in hope of resembling the long-dead royal. This enduring obsession is the result of just one object: the lovely and mysterious Nefertiti bust, created by the sculptor Thutmose and housed in Berlin’s Neues Museum since before World War II. In Nefertiti’s Face, Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley tells the story of the bust, from its origins in a busy workshop of the late Bronze Age to its rediscovery and controversial removal to Europe in 1912 and its present status as one of the world’s most treasured artifacts. This wide-ranging history takes us from the temples and tombs of ancient Egypt to wartime Berlin and engages the latest in Pharaonic scholarship. Tyldesley sheds light on both Nefertiti’s life and her improbable afterlife, in which she became famous simply for being famous.

Author : Susan Slack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692379827

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Hidden from the Face of Humans by Susan Slack Pdf

Who Killed the High Priestess Thermafi? Palace intrigue...sibling rivalries...mysticism...murder. Hidden From the Face of Humans is a sweeping epic that brings to vivid life the last native Egyptian dynasty of 400 BCE. Behind the banquets and the festivities, the world-changing battles and maneuvers, are the great powers of the day: the pharaohs of Egypt, Plato of Athens, Persian King Artaxerxes, and Spartan King Agesilaus. Moving serenely amidst the political turmoil is Thermafi, an Egyptian Priestess of Isis who, like the Magi of the Middle Eastern deserts and the oracles at Delphi, travels the ancient, timeless path of the unseen. Thermafi seeks no power for herself, but she is privy to the secrets of the powerful. As the beloved confidante of the pharaoh and revered teacher of the heirs to the Egyptian throne, Thermafi has hidden enemies-and someone wants her dead.A tour de force dramatizing actual events and characters, Hidden from the Face of Humans offers ingenious solutions to longtime historical mysteries-and a page-turning entertainment.

Author : Anthazia Kadir
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456849924

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Daughter of Pharaoh by Anthazia Kadir Pdf

Author : Zahi A. Hawass,Sahar Saleem
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9789774166730

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Scanning the Pharaohs by Zahi A. Hawass,Sahar Saleem Pdf

The royal mummies in the Cairo Museum are an important source of information about the lives of the ancient Egyptians. The remains of these pharaohs and queens can inform us about their age at death and medical conditions from which they may have suffered, as well as the mummification process and objects placed within the wrappings. Using the latest technology, including Multi-Detector Computed Tomography and DNA analysis, the authors present the results of the examination of the royal mummies. New imaging techniques not only reveal a wealth of information about each mummy, but render amazingly lifelike and detailed images of the remains.

Author : Donald Malcolm Reid
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520930797

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Whose Pharaohs? by Donald Malcolm Reid Pdf

Egypt's rich and celebrated ancient past has served many causes throughout history--in both Egypt and the West. Concentrating on the era from Napoleon's conquest and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone to the outbreak of World War I, this book examines the evolution of Egyptian archaeology in the context of Western imperialism and nascent Egyptian nationalism. Traditionally, histories of Egyptian archaeology have celebrated Western discoverers such as Champollion, Mariette, Maspero, and Petrie, while slighting Rifaa al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Kamal, and other Egyptians. This exceptionally well-illustrated and well-researched book writes Egyptians into the history of archaeology and museums in their own country and shows how changing perceptions of the past helped shape ideas of modern national identity. Drawing from rich archival sources in Egypt, the United Kingdom, and France, and from little-known Arabic publications, Reid discusses previously neglected topics in both scholarly Egyptology and the popular "Egyptomania" displayed in world's fairs and Orientalist painting and photography. He also examines the link between archaeology and the rise of the modern tourist industry. This richly detailed narrative discusses not only Western and Egyptian perceptions of pharaonic history and archaeology but also perceptions of Egypt's Greco-Roman, Coptic, and Islamic eras. Throughout this book, Reid demonstrates how the emergence of archaeology affected the interests and self-perceptions of modern Egyptians. In addition to uncovering a wealth of significant new material on the history of archaeology and museums in Egypt, Reid provides a fascinating window on questions of cultural heritage--how it is perceived, constructed, claimed, and contested.

Author : Krzysztof Jerzy Radtke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3447118024

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The Iconography of the Pharaoh's Face in the Eighteenth Dynasty Relief - Metric Analysis by Krzysztof Jerzy Radtke Pdf

Author : Susan Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136694882

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Ancient Faces by Susan Walker Pdf

From the first major discoveries a century ago, the painted portraits of Roman Egypt were a revelation to scholars and the public alike, and the recent finding of a new cache of these gilded images, which made national headlines, have only heightened their mystery and appeal. Published to coincide with a new major exhibition of these portraits, Ancient Faces is the most comprehensive, up-to-date survey of these astonishing works of art. Dating from the later period of Roman rule in Egypt, shortly before the birth of Christ, the painted mummy portraits are among the most remarkable products of the ancient world, a fusion of the traditions of pharonic Egypt and the Classical world. They are historical and cultural objects of outstanding importance and beauty, superb works of art that represent some of the earliest known examples of life-like portraiture. Though the subjects of the portraits believed in the traditional Egyptian cults, which offered them a firm prospect of life after death, they also wished to be commemorated in the Roman manner, with their fashion of dress and adornment signaling their status in life. Despite their ancient history, these portraits speak to the modern eye with a beauty and intensity that would be lost to portraiture until the Renaissance.

Author : Rita E. Freed,Sue H. D'Auria,Yvonne J. Markowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture, Egyptian
ISBN : 0500050996

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Pharaohs of the Sun by Rita E. Freed,Sue H. D'Auria,Yvonne J. Markowitz Pdf

This catalogue brings to life the extraordinary world of ancient Egypt through more than 250 beautiful works of art, while essays by leading Egyptologists describe the Amarna period, a time of unprecedented changes - in art and architecture, technology, the role of women in religion and government - and the dramatic break with polytheism. Sculpture, architectural elements, ceramics, jewelry, clothing, tools and furniture illustrate the culture of this period. More than 400 illustrations of these objects from renowned collections - such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ägyptisches Museum in Berlin, the British Museum and the Louvre are reproduced in this handsome volume.

Author : Dr Phyllis G Jestice
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781838864774

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Pharaohs by Dr Phyllis G Jestice Pdf

Carefully researched, superbly entertaining and illustrated throughout with more than 180 photographs and artworks, Pharaohs is an accessible history of the kings and queens who ruled Ancient Egypt for more than 4,000 years.

Author : University of Michigan. Audio-Visual Education Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Egypt
ISBN : UCR:31210024868687

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Educational Media Resources on Egypt by University of Michigan. Audio-Visual Education Center Pdf