The Archaeology Of Egyptian Non Royal Burial Customs In New Kingdom Egypt And Its Empire

Author : Wolfram Grajetzki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009081900

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The Archaeology of Egyptian Non-Royal Burial Customs in New Kingdom Egypt and Its Empire by Wolfram Grajetzki Pdf

This Element provides a new evaluation of burial customs in New Kingdom Egypt, from about 1550 to 1077 BC, with an emphasis on burials of the wider population. It also covers the regions then under Egyptian control: the Southern Levant and the area of Nubia as far as the Fourth Cataract. The inclusion of foreign countries provides insights not only into the interaction between the centre of the empire and its conquered regions, but also concerning what is typically Egyptian and to what extent the conquered regions were culturally influenced. It can be shown that burials in Lower Nubia closely follow those in Egypt. In the southern Levant, by contrast, cemeteries of the period often yield numerous Egyptian objects, but burial customs in general do not follow those in Egypt.

Author : Wolfram Grajetzki
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058082507

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Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt by Wolfram Grajetzki Pdf

The pyramids of Gizeh and the tomb of Tutankhamun are two examples of the legendary energy that the Ancient Egyptians devoted to their tombs. But it was not only the rich who had pyramids as this work shows, giving a broad picture of burial as practiced throughout society over the millennia.

Author : Danielle Candelora,Nadia Ben-Marzouk,Kathlyn M. Cooney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000636253

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Ancient Egyptian Society by Danielle Candelora,Nadia Ben-Marzouk,Kathlyn M. Cooney Pdf

This volume challenges assumptions about—and highlights new approaches to—the study of ancient Egyptian society by tackling various thematic social issues through structured individual case studies. The reader will be presented with questions about the relevance of the past in the present. The chapters encourage an understanding of Egypt in its own terms through the lens of power, people, and place, offering a more nuanced understanding of the way Egyptian society was organized and illustrating the benefits of new approaches to topics in need of a critical re-examination. By re-evaluating traditional, long-held beliefs about a monolithic, unchanging ancient Egyptian society, this volume writes a new narrative—one unchecked assumption at a time. Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches is intended for anyone studying ancient Egypt or ancient societies more broadly, including undergraduate and graduate students, Egyptologists, and scholars in adjacent fields.

Author : Niv Allon,Hana Navratilova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009083799

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Scribal Culture in Ancient Egypt by Niv Allon,Hana Navratilova Pdf

This Element seeks to characterize the scribal culture in ancient Egypt through its textual acts, which were of prime importance in this culture: writing, list-making, drawing, and copying.

Author : Ellen Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009083843

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Famine and Feast in Ancient Egypt by Ellen Morris Pdf

This Element is about the creation and curation of social memory in pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt. Ancient, Classical, Medieval, and Ottoman sources attest to the horror that characterized catastrophic famines. Occurring infrequently and rarely reaching the canonical seven-years' length, famines appeared and disappeared like nightmares. Communities that remain aware of potentially recurring tragedies are often advantaged in their efforts to avert or ameliorate worst-case scenarios. For this and other reasons, pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egyptians preserved intergenerational memories of hunger and suffering. This Element begins with a consideration of the trajectories typical of severe Nilotic famines and the concept of social memory. It then argues that personal reflection and literature, prophecy, and an annual festival of remembrance functioned-at different times, and with varying degrees of success-to convince the well-fed that famines had the power to unseat established order and to render a comfortably familiar world unrecognizable.

Author : Ben Haring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009400787

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Hieroglyphs, Pseudo-Scripts and Alphabets by Ben Haring Pdf

Introduces the workings and uses of Egyptian hieroglyphs, the various degrees of cultural knowledge of their makers and – most importantly – the influence hieroglyphs had on other scripts and notations in antiquity.

Author : John Garstang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Banī Ḥasan Site (Egypt)
ISBN : PRNC:32101074942903

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The Burial Customs of Ancient Egypt as Illustrated by Tombs of the Middle Kingdom by John Garstang Pdf

Author : Aidan Dodson,Salima Ikram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0500051399

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The Tomb in Ancient Egypt by Aidan Dodson,Salima Ikram Pdf

For Egyptophiles everywhere, here is the most authoritative and comprehensive guide ever published on the full range of tombs, their decoration and burial customs.

Author : Naguib Kanawati
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0856687340

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The Tomb and Beyond by Naguib Kanawati Pdf

The Egyptians had very different outlooks on death and the afterlife to many other later societies, something that is reflected in the tombs that they constructed and decorated. Published in an abridged form in 1987 as The Tomb and its Significance in Ancient Egypt , this general study of Egyptian burial customs and belief systems is aimed at a non-specialist readership. Drawing on literary, architectural and artistic evidence Kanawati explores the relationships between the living and the dead. The strength of the book lies in its readability, its attention to detail and the numerous examples and illustrations that accompany the text.

Author : John Garstang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Banī Ḥasan Site (Egypt)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092168743

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Burial Customs of Ancient Egypt, as Illustrated by Tombs of the Middle Kingdom by John Garstang Pdf

This is an account of Garstang's excavations at the necropolis of Beni Hassan during 1902-04. Finding many intact burials of court officials with the original elaborate furniture of the tomb in their original positions, Garstang was able to undertake a meticulous description of all details of the interments including funeral rites and emblems, clothing and adornment of the person, and arts and crafts used in the burial. The work is particularly notable for the light it throws on the daily lives and deaths of men and women of the middle classes in ancient Egypt.

Author : Steven Snape
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444393736

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Ancient Egyptian Tombs by Steven Snape Pdf

This book explores the development of tombs as a cultural phenomenon in ancient Egypt and examines what tombs reveal about ancient Egyptian culture and Egyptians' belief in the afterlife. Investigates the roles of tombs in the development of funerary practices Draws on a range of data, including architecture, artifacts and texts Discusses tombs within the context of everyday life in Ancient Egypt Stresses the importance of the tomb as an eternal expression of the self

Author : Aidan Dodson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473880047

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The Royal Tombs of Ancient Egypt by Aidan Dodson Pdf

The renowned Egyptologist presents a fascinating and comprehensive history of Ancient Egyptian pyramids, mausolea and other funerary monuments. The royal tombs of ancient Egypt include some of the most stupendous monuments of all time, containing some of the greatest treasures to survive from the ancient world. This book is a history of the burial places of the rulers of Egypt from the very dawn of history down to the country’s absorption into the Roman Empire, three millennia later. During this time, the tombs ranged from mudbrick-lined pits in the desert, through pyramid-topped labyrinths to superbly decorated galleries penetrating deep into the rock of the Valley of the Kings. The Royal Tombs of Ancient Egypt is the most comprehensive study of ancient Egyptian funerary monuments to date. Egyptologist Aidan Dodson examines not only the burial places themselves, but also the temples built to provide for the dead pharaoh’s soul. The volume covers the tombs of both native and foreign monarchs as well as royal family members.

Author : Salima Ikram,Jessica Kaiser,Roxie Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Animal remains (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9088903859

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Egyptian Bioarchaeology by Salima Ikram,Jessica Kaiser,Roxie Walker Pdf

This volume explores how ancient plant, animal, and human remains from Ancient Egypt should be studied, and how, when they are integrated with texts, images, and artefacts, they can contribute to our understanding of the history, environment, and culture of ancient Egypt in a holistic manner.

Author : Brian Muhs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107113367

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The Ancient Egyptian Economy by Brian Muhs Pdf

The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000-30 BCE.

Author : Rogerio Sousa
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789252637

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Gilded Flesh by Rogerio Sousa Pdf

Egyptian coffins stand out in museum collections for their lively and radiant appearance. As a container of the mummy, coffins played a key role by protecting the body and, at the same time, integrating the deceased in the afterlife. The paramount importance of these objects and their purpose is detected in the ways they changed through time. For more than three thousand years, coffins and tombs had been designed to assure in the most efficient way possible a successful outcome for the difficult transition to the afterlife. This book examines eight non-royal tombs found relatively intact, from the plains of Saqqara to the sacred hills of Thebes. These almost undisturbed burial sites managed to escape ancient looters and so their discoveries, from Mariette’s exploration of the Mastaba of Ti in Saqqara to Schiaparelli’s discovery of the Tomb of Kha and Merit in Deir el-Medina, were sensational events in Egyptian archaeology. Each one of these sites unveils before our eyes a time capsule, where coffins and tombs were designed together as part of a social, political and religious order. From Predynastic times to the decline of the New Kingdom, this book explores each site revealing the interconnection between mummification practices, coffin decoration, burial equipment, tomb decoration and ritual landscapes. Through this analysis, the author aims to point out how the design of coffins changed through time in order to empower the deceased with different visions of immortality. By doing so, the study of coffins reveals a silent revolution which managed to open to ordinary men and women horizons of divinity previously reserved for the royal sphere. Coffins thus show us how identity was forged to create an immortal and divine self.