Perspectives On Ancient Egypt

Author : Roger Matthews,Cornelia Roemer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315434919

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Ancient Perspectives on Egypt by Roger Matthews,Cornelia Roemer Pdf

The allure of Egypt is not exclusive to the modern world. Egypt also held a fascination and attraction for people of the past. In this book, academics from a wide range of disciplines assess the significance of Egypt within the settings of its past. The chronological span is from later prehistory, through to the earliest literate eras of interaction with Mesopotamia and the Levant, the Aegean, Greece and Rome. Ancient Perspectives on Egypt includes both archaeological and documented evidence, which ranges from the earliest writing attested in Egypt and Mesopotamia in the late fourth millennium BC, to graffiti from Abydos that demonstrate pilgrimages from all over the Mediterranean world, to the views of Roman poets on the nature of Egypt. This book presents, for the first time in a single volume, a multi-faceted but coherent collection of images of Egypt from, and of, the past.

Author : David Jeffreys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315416007

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Views of Ancient Egypt Since Napoleon Bonaparte by David Jeffreys Pdf

This book addresses some of the main themes of the study of Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In a combination of case studies and discursive chapters, the status of Egypt as an important example of traditional Asian scholarship, and as an ancient model of imperialism itself, is examined. Contributions range from studies of nineteenth century antiquarianism, and the collecting of Egyptian antiquities as an extension of the territorial ambitions and rivalries of the European powers, to explorations of how Egypt is understood and interpreted in contemporary societies. Views of Ancient Egypt also considers the way in which Ancient Egypt has been adopted by less privileged members of some societies as a cultural icon of past greatness.

Author : Peter Der Manuelian,Thomas Schneider
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004301894

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Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom by Peter Der Manuelian,Thomas Schneider Pdf

These conference papers from a one-day international Egyptology symposium at Harvard University (April 26, 2012) consider questions of kingship, religion, art, economics, and old and new archaeological excavations at the Giza Pyramids and beyond (3rd millennium BCE).

Author : Maynart Érika,Carolina Velloza,Rennan Lemos
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784919344

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Perspectives on materiality in ancient Egypt: Agency, Cultural Reproduction and Change by Maynart Érika,Carolina Velloza,Rennan Lemos Pdf

Growing out of a colloquium organised in São Paulo in March 2016, here Nine papers approach the potential of materiality in Ancient Egypt based on several case studies covering a wide range of topics such as Egyptian art, recent perspectives on sex and gender, hierarchies, and the materiality of textual sources and images.

Author : David Jeffreys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315415994

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Views of Ancient Egypt since Napoleon Bonaparte by David Jeffreys Pdf

This book addresses some of the main themes of the study of Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In a combination of case studies and discursive chapters, the status of Egypt as an important example of traditional Asian scholarship, and as an ancient model of imperialism itself, is examined. Contributions range from studies of nineteenth century antiquarianism, and the collecting of Egyptian antiquities as an extension of the territorial ambitions and rivalries of the European powers, to explorations of how Egypt is understood and interpreted in contemporary societies. Views of Ancient Egypt also considers the way in which Ancient Egypt has been adopted by less privileged members of some societies as a cultural icon of past greatness.

Author : Sally MacDonald,Michael Rice
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135393908

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Consuming Ancient Egypt by Sally MacDonald,Michael Rice Pdf

The discipline of Egyptology has been criticised for being too insular,with little awareness of the development of archaeologies elsewhere. It has remained theoretically underdeveloped. For example the role of Ancient Egypt within Africa has rarely been considered jointly by Egyptologists and Africanists. Egypt's own view of itself has been neglected; views of it in the ancient past, in more recent times and today have remained underexposed. Encounters with Ancient Egypt is a series of eight books which addresses these issues. The books interrelate, inform and illuminate one another and will appeal to a wide market including academics, students and the general public interested in Archaeology, Egyptology, Anthropology, Architecture, Design and History. Consuming Ancient Egypt examines the influence of Ancient Egypt on the everyday lives of people, of all ages, throughout the world. It looks at the Egypt which the tourist sees, Egypt in film and Egypt as the inspiration for opera. It asks why so many books are published each year on Egyptological subjects at all levels, from the austerely academic to the riotous celebrations of Egypt as a land of mystery, enchantment and fantasy. It then considers the ways in which Ancient Egypt interacts with the living world, in architecture, museum-going, the acquisition of souvenirs and reproductions, design, and the perpetual appeal of the mummy. The significance of Egypt as an adjunct to (and frequently the subject of) marketing in the consumer society is examined. It reveals much about Egypt's immemorial appeal and the psychology of those who succumb to its mag

Author : Nico Staring,Huw Twiston Davies,Lara Weiss
Publisher : Papers on Archaeology of the L
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9088907927

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Perspectives on Lived Religion by Nico Staring,Huw Twiston Davies,Lara Weiss Pdf

Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised, and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if superficial narratives, however. Individuals and groups continuously shaped their environments, and were shaped by them in turn. This volume explores the ways in which this adaptation, negotiation, and reconstruction of religious understandings took place. The material results of these processes are termed 'cultural geography'. The volume examines this 'cultural geography' through the study of three vectors of religious agency: religious practices, the transmission of texts and images, and the study of religious landscapes.Bringing together papers by experts in a variety of Egyptological disciplines and other fields of study, this volume presents the results of an interdisciplinary workshop held at the University of Leiden, 7-9 November 2018, kindly funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Vidi Talent Scheme. The 16 papers presented here discuss the archaeology of religion and religious practices, landscape archaeology and 'cultural geography', and the transmission and adaptation of texts and images, across not only the history of Egypt from the Early Dynastic to the Christian periods, but also in ancient Sudanese archaeology, the Arabian peninsula, early and medieval south-eastern Asia, and contemporary China.

Author : Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226789408

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Ancient Perspectives by Richard J. A. Talbert Pdf

Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy’s ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor’s rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.

Author : Lionel Casson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Kara Cooney
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : H. E. Winlock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258103222

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

Author : David O'Connor,Andrew Reid
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598742053

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ANCIENT EGYPT IN AFRICA by David O'Connor,Andrew Reid Pdf

This book considers the evidence for actual contacts between Egypt and other early African cultures, and how influential, or not, Egypt was on them.

Author : Barry J. Kemp
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0415063469

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Ancient Egypt by Barry J. Kemp Pdf

From an archaeological perspective, and drawing on new excavations, Kemp (Egyptology, Cambridge) explores ways in which Egypt of about 3000-1000 BC prefigures our own culture. He discusses what he sees as major shaping forces of the civilization, such as political myth and ideology, bureaucracy, the quest for food and work, charismatic rule, the political and economic constraints on daily life, and the interplay between change and stability through the centuries. Contains many plans of buildings and towns, and redrawings of carvings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Leslie Anne Warden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108744133

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Ceramic Perspectives on Ancient Egyptian Society by Leslie Anne Warden Pdf

This Element seeks to demonstrate how ceramics, a data set that is more typically identified with chronology than social analysis, can forward study of Egyptian society writ large. This Element argues that the sheer mass of ceramic material indicates the importance of pottery to Egyptian life. Ceramics form a crucial dataset with which Egyptology must critically engage, but which require us to also engage with statistical thinking and anthropological theory, and which necessitate working with the Egyptian past using a more fluid theoretical toolkit. This Element will demonstrate how ceramics may be employed in social analyses through a focus on four broad areas of inquiry: regionalism; ties between province and state, elite and non-elite; domestic life; and the relationship of political change to social change. While the case studies largely come from the Old through Middle Kingdoms, the methods and questions may be applied to any period of Egyptian history.

Author : Arthur Gilman,George Rawlinson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547772682

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Egyptian History by Arthur Gilman,George Rawlinson Pdf

The edition is designed to supply complete account of Ancient Egypt, combining its antiquities with its history, specifically pointing out the way of the Egyptian life - manners, customs, art, science, literature and religion. Alongside the full statement of the general course of historical events, whereof Egypt was the scene, from the foundation of the monarchy to the loss of independence, this book offers the complete a deeper insight and understanding of the the great kingdom on the river Nile. Contents: The Land of Egypt The People of Egypt The Dawn of History The Pyramid Builders The Rise of Thebes to Power, and the Early Theban Kings The Good Amenemhat and His Works Abraham in Egypt The Great Invasion—The Hyksos or Shepherd Kings—Joseph and Apepi How the Hyksos Were Expelled From Egypt The First Great Warrior King, Thothmes I Queen Hatasu and Her Merchant Fleet Thothmes the Third and Amenhotep the Second Amen-Hotep III. And His Great Works—the Vocal Memnon Khuenaten and the Disk-worshippers Beginning of the Decline of Egypt Menephthah I., the Pharaoh of the Exodus The Decline of Egypt Under the Later Ramessides The Priest-Kings—Pinetem and Solomon Shishak and His Dynasty The Land Shadowing With Wings Egypt Under the Ethiopians The Fight Over the Carcase Ethiopia V. Assyria The Corpse Comes to Life Again Psamatik I. And His Son, Neco The Later Saïte Kings Psamatik II., Apries, and Amasis The Persian Conquest Three Desperate Revolts Nectanebo I.—a Last Gleam of Sunshine The Light Goes Out in Darkness