Pharaohs Of The Sun

Author : Rita E. Freed,Sue H. D'Auria,Yvonne J. Markowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Guy de la Bédoyère
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639363070

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Pharaohs of the Sun by Guy de la Bédoyère Pdf

A vivid story of an astonishing period in ancient Egypt’s history—1550 BC to 1295 BC—that tears away the gold and glamour to reveal how these great pharaohs ruthlessly ruled Egypt for two hundred and fifty years. For more than two centuries, Egypt was ruled by the most powerful, successful, and richest dynasty of kings in its long end epic history. They included the female king Hatshepsut, the warrior kings Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, the religious radical Akhenaten and his queen, Nefertiti, and most famously of all—for the wealth found in his tomb—the short-lived boy king, Tutankhamun. The power and riches of the Pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty came at enormous cost to Egypt's enemies—and to most of its people. This was an age of ruthless absolutism, exploitation, extravagance, brutality, and oppression in a culture where not only did Egypt plunder its neighbors, but Egyptian kings (and their people) robbed one another. 3,500 years ago, ancient Egypt began two centuries of growth where it became richer and more powerful than any other nation in the world, ruled by the kings of the 18th Dynasty. They presided over a system built on war, oppression, and ruthlessness, pouring Egypt's wealth into grandiose monuments, temples, and extravagant tombs. Tutankhamun was one of the last of the line—and one of the most obscure. Among his predecessors were some of the most notorious and enigmatic figures of all of Egypt's history. Pharaohs of the Sun is the story of these famed rulers, showing how their glamour and gold became tainted by selfishness, ostentation, and the systematic exploitation of Egypt's people and enemies.

Author : Rita E. Freed
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878464700

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Pharaohs of the Sun by Rita E. Freed Pdf

Few figures in history evoke the curiosity or command the attention that Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Tutankhamen do. Pharaoh Akhenaten founded the city of Amarna 3,500 years ago. In this volume the fascinating Amarna Period of ancient Egypt comes to life through more than 250 beautiful works of sculpture, architectural elements, ceramic ware, jewelry, clothing, tools, and furniture from renowned international collections. Essays by leading Egyptian scholars describe this time of unprecedented change in Egyptian art and architecture, technology, the role of women, and religion, specifically the transition from polytheism to monotheism.

Author : Guy de la Bédoyère
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781408714232

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Pharaohs of the Sun by Guy de la Bédoyère Pdf

For more than two centuries Egypt was ruled by the most powerful, successful, and richest dynasty of kings in its long end epic history. They included the female king Hatshepsut, the warrior kings Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, the religious radical Akhenaten and his queen Nefertiti, and most famously of all for the wealth of his tomb the short-lived boy king Tutankhamun. The power and riches of the Pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty came at enormous cost to Egypt's enemies and most of its people. This was an age of ruthless absolutism, exploitation, extravagance, brutality, and oppression in a culture where not only did Egypt plunder its neighbours but Egyptian kings and their people robbed one another. 3,500 years ago ancient Egypt began two centuries in which it became richer and more powerful than any other nation at the time, ruled by the kings of the 18th Dynasty. They presided over a system built on war, oppression, and ruthlessness, pouring Egypt's wealth into grandiose monuments, temples, and extravagant tombs. Tutankhamun was one of the last of the line and one of the most obscure. Among his predecessors were some of the most notorious and enigmatic figures of all of Egypt's history. Pharaohs of the Sun is their story, showing how the glamour and gold was tainted by selfishness, ostentation, and the systematic exploitation of Egypt's people and enemies.

Author : Lauren Lee Merewether
Publisher : LLMBooks Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781961759138

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Salvation in the Sun by Lauren Lee Merewether Pdf

This future she knows for certain—the great sun city will be her undoing. Amidst a power struggle between Pharaoh and the priesthood of Amun, Queen Nefertiti helps the ill-prepared new Pharaoh, Amenhotep, enact his father's plan to regain power for the throne. But what seemed a difficult task only becomes more grueling when Amenhotep loses himself in his radical obsessions. Standing alone to bear the burden of a failing country and stem the tide of a growing rebellion, Nefertiti must choose between her love for Pharaoh and her duty to Egypt in this dramatic retelling of a story forgotten by time. Salvation in the Sun is the first volume of Lauren Lee Merewether's debut family saga, The Lost Pharaoh Chronicles, a resurrection of an erased time that follows the five Kings of Egypt who were lost to history for over three millennia. The story continues in book two, Secrets in the Sand.

Author : Aidan Dodson
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781649031686

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Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt by Aidan Dodson Pdf

Egypt's sun queen magnificently revealed in a new book by renowned Egyptologist, Aidan Dodson During the last half of the fourteenth century BC, Egypt was perhaps at the height of its prosperity. It was against this background that the “Amarna Revolution” occurred. Throughout, its instigator, King Akhenaten, had at his side his Great Wife, Nefertiti. When a painted bust of the queen found at Amarna in 1912 was first revealed to the public in the 1920s, it soon became one of the great artistic icons of the world. Nefertiti's name and face are perhaps the best known of any royal woman of ancient Egypt and one of the best recognized figures of antiquity, but her image has come in many ways to overshadow the woman herself. Nefertiti’s current world dominion as a cultural and artistic icon presents an interesting contrast with the way in which she was actively written out of history soon after her own death. This book explores what we can reconstruct of the life of the queen, tracing the way in which she and her image emerged in the wake of the first tentative decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs during the 1820s–1840s, and then took on the world over the next century and beyond. All indications are that her final fate was a tragic one, but although every effort was made to wipe out Nefertiti's memory after her death, modern archaeology has rescued the queen-pharaoh from obscurity and set her on the road to today’s international status.

Author : Richard Gabriel
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595297566

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Lion of the Sun by Richard Gabriel Pdf

Lion Of The Sun continues the saga of Thutmose III (1480-1426 B.C.E.) of Egypt as told by his oldest friend and scribe, Thaneni, in the chronicle entitled Warrior Pharaoh (iUniverse, 2001). Having been denied his rightful claim to the throne by his aunt, Hatshepsut, Thutmose gained his place as king of Egypt by a military coup. Now as Pharaoh, Thutmose must deal with the threats that confront Egypt. Lion Of The Sun is Thaneni's tale of Thutmose's life as warrior king, the Great Lion of Egypt, whom history has remembered as the greatest warrior pharaoh of all time.

Author : David P. Silverman,Josef W. Wegner,Jennifer Houser Wegner
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1931707901

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Akhenaten and Tutankhamun by David P. Silverman,Josef W. Wegner,Jennifer Houser Wegner Pdf

The Amarna Period, named after the site of an innovative capital city that was the center of the new religion, included the reigns of heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and his presumed son, the boy king Tutankhamun.

Author : in60Learning
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1095405829

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Akhenaten by in60Learning Pdf

Smarter in sixty minutes.Get smarter in just 60 minutes with in60Learning. Concise and elegantly written non-fiction books and audiobooks help you learn the core subject matter in 20% of the time that it takes to read a typical book. Life is short, so explore a multitude of fascinating historical, biographical, scientific, political, and financial topics in only an hour each.Akhenaten is one of Ancient Egypt's most famous pharaohs both for fathering Tutankhaten and being the only pharaoh bold enough to discard thousands of years of religious history in favor of a new god, the Sun-Disk Aten. Akhenaten single-handedly altered Egypt more on its own than it would be changed until outside Greek influence took over. The impact his changes had on the religion of Egypt during and after his life cannot be understated, and the ways in which his predecessors worked to undo everything he had done is a remarkable act of revisionist history. The Sun-Disk Aten would live on and influence the world in surprising ways even after many believed it to have been purged from religious records.

Author : Margaret Dulles Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Pharaohs
ISBN : LCCN:39022132

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Child of the Sun by Margaret Dulles Edwards Pdf

Author : Savitri Devi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 069237194X

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Son of God, Son of the Sun by Savitri Devi Pdf

A beautiful, poetic, and philosophical account of Akhenaten -- perhaps the greatest pharaoh of ancient Egypt. Akhenaten was "the world's first individual" and, in the author's words, "the most perfect man in history." No other account of him offers as much insight and beauty as this one. Akhenaten was truly the first philosopher of light; his message is more urgently needed now than ever.

Author : Elizabeth Payne
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780307813992

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The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt by Elizabeth Payne Pdf

For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was a great civilization that thrived along the banks of the Nile River. But when its cities crumbled to dust, Egypt’s culture and the secrets of its hieroglyphic writings were also lost. The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt explains how archaeologists have pieced together their discoveries to slowly reveal the history of Egypt’s people, its pharaohs, and its golden days.

Author : Arielle P. Kozloff,Betsy Morrell Bryan,Lawrence Michael Berman,Elisabeth Delange,Cleveland Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art, Egyptian
ISBN : UOM:39076001845085

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Egypt's Dazzling Sun by Arielle P. Kozloff,Betsy Morrell Bryan,Lawrence Michael Berman,Elisabeth Delange,Cleveland Museum of Art Pdf

Reign.

Author : Cyril Aldred
Publisher : Penguin Putnam
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015035336679

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Akhenaten and Nefertiti by Cyril Aldred Pdf

Catalog of an exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.

Author : Dorothea Arnold,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Portrait sculpture, Ancient
ISBN : 9780870998164

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The Royal Women of Amarna by Dorothea Arnold,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

The move to a new capital, Akhenaten/Amarna, brought essential changes in the depictions of royal women. It was in their female imagery, above all, that the artists of Amarna departed from the traditional iconic representations to emphasize the individual, the natural, in a way unprecedented in Egyptian art.