The Nile Natural And Cultural Landscape In Egypt

Author : Harco Willems,Jan-Michael Dahms
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783839436158

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The Nile: Natural and Cultural Landscape in Egypt by Harco Willems,Jan-Michael Dahms Pdf

Although Herodot's dictum that "Egypt is a gift of the Nile" is proverbial, there has been only scant attention to the way the river impacted on ancient Egyptian society. Egyptologists frequently focus on the textual and iconographic record, whereas archaeologists and earth scientists approach the issue from the perspective of natural sciences. The contributions in this volume bridge this gap by analyzing the river both as a natural and as a cultural phenomenon. Adopting an approach of cultural ecology, it addresses issues like ancient land use, administration and taxation, irrigation, and religious concepts.

Author : Judith Bunbury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107012158

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The Nile and Ancient Egypt by Judith Bunbury Pdf

The economic, political and historical story of the Nile in ancient times is unearthed through its landscape.

Author : Jeffrey Spencer
Publisher : Egypt Exploration Society
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780856982552

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Archaeological Sites of the Nile Delta of Egypt by Jeffrey Spencer Pdf

This volume presents the results of a research project extending over four decades on the identification, location and character of the archaeological sites of Lower Egypt, continued since 1997 as the Egypt Exploration Society's Delta Survey, supported by the British Academy. Data has been gathered from bibliographic sources, dedicated fieldwork and information from Egyptian and foreign missions to present a body of material previously available only in summary online. The present volume provides all the information in enhanced and extended form, with descriptions of each site, noting especially changes in condition over time, previous discoveries and current fieldwork, together with key references to bibliographic or other sources. This is an essential index of the ancient settlements of the Delta, alerting archaeologists and historians to the large cities, small towns, fortress and temple sites that covered the Delta in antiquity.

Author : UNESCO,UNESCO Office in Beijing
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 893 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231005404

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River Culture by UNESCO,UNESCO Office in Beijing Pdf

Author : Claire J. Malleson
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781617979460

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The Fayum Landscape by Claire J. Malleson Pdf

Located some one hundred kilometers southwest of Cairo, the Fayum region has long been regarded as unique, often described in terms that conjure up images of an idealized Garden of Eden. In An Egyptian Landscape, Claire Malleson takes a novel approach to the study of the region by exploring the ways in which people have, through millennia, perceived and engaged with the Fayum landscape. Distinguishing between the experienced landscape of state and bureaucratic record and the imagined landscape of myth, meaning, and observers’ personal influences and expectations, Malleson questions in detail where those perceptions come from. She traces religious practices, follows the tracks of myths and traditions, and investigates the roots of stories found in texts from the pharaonic, classical, and Medieval Islamic periods. She also reviews many, more recent travel writings on the region from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. The work of each author is presented in its historical and cultural context, and Malleson integrates what is known about ancient activities in the Fayum, based on the archaeological evidence from the many monuments and ancient settlements that exist in the region. Scholars and students of archaeology and landscape studies as well as general readers interested in Egypt’s history and archaeology will find this book highly engaging and enlightening.

Author : Ḥagai Erlikh,I. Gershoni
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1555876722

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The Nile by Ḥagai Erlikh,I. Gershoni Pdf

Contributors, consisting of historians and other scholars from Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Europe, Israel, Sudan, and the US, trace the complex intercultural relations that have revolved around the Nile River throughout recorded history. The volume's 20 articles focus on four themes: peoples and identities in medieval times; the Nile as seen from a distance (such as from Europe and as a gateway for missionary activity); mid-century perspectives; and contemporary views including the Aswan High Dam and revolutionary symbolism in Egypt. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : John Romer
Publisher : Random House
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141993362

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A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3 by John Romer Pdf

The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known state Archaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient Egypt, and here he tells the epic story of an era dominated by titans of the popular imagination: the radical iconoclast Akhenaten, the boy-king Tutankhamun and the all-conquering Ramesses II. But 'heroes' do not forge history by themselves. This was also a time of international trade, cultural exchange and sophisticated art, even in the face of violent change. Alongside his visionary new history of this, the most famous period in the long history of Ancient Egypt, Romer turns a critical eye on Egyptology itself. Paying close attention to the evidence, he corrects prevailing narratives which cast the New Kingdom as an imperial state power in the European mould. Instead, he reveals - through broken artefacts in ruined workshops, or preserved letters between a tomb-builder and his son - a culture more beautiful and beguiling than we could have imagined. Romer carefully reconstructs the real story of the New Kingdom as evidenced in the archaeological record, and the result - the final volume of a life long project - secures his status as Ancient Egypt's finest chronicler.

Author : Christina Geisen
Publisher : Yale Egyptology
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781950343133

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Ritual Landscape and Performance by Christina Geisen Pdf

Ritual Landscape and Performance contains the peer-reviewed Egyptological contributions from the homonymous conference held at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations of Yale University on September 23-24, 2016. The various articles discuss the use of ritual landscape from the Old to the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, by focusing on landscape archaeology of specific sites such as Saqqara, el-Bersheh, Abydos, Thebes, as well as Aniba in Nubia. Further contributions elucidate the interaction of desert and the Nile Valley through rock art, the depictions of watery environments in the delta and their association to rituals, as well as the habitation of landscapes using the example of southern Middle Egypt.

Author : Richard Bussmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107030381

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The Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt by Richard Bussmann Pdf

In this book, Richard Bussmann presents a fresh overview of ancient Egyptian society and culture in the age of the pyramids. He addresses key themes in the comparative research of early complex societies, including urbanism, funerary culture, temple ritual, kingship, and the state, and explores how ideas and practices were exchanged between ruling elites and local communities in provincial Egypt. Unlike other studies of ancient Egypt, this book adopts an anthropological approach that places people at the centre of the analysis. Bussmann covers a range of important themes in cross-cultural debates, such as materiality, gender, non-elite culture, and the body. He also offers new perspectives on social diversity and cultural cohesion, based on recent discoveries. His study vividly illustrates how our understanding of ancient Egyptian society benefits from the application of theoretical concepts in archaeology and anthropology to the interpretation of the evidence.

Author : Katherine Blouin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009188494

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The Nile Delta by Katherine Blouin Pdf

This is the first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. It offers a multidisciplinary approach engaging with varied aspects of the region's long, complex, yet still underappreciated history. Readers will learn of the history of settlement, agriculture and the management of water resources at different periods and in different places, as well as the naming and mapping of the Delta and the roles played by tourism and archaeology. The wide range of backgrounds of the contributors and the broad panoply of methodological and conceptual practices deployed enable new spaces to be opened up for conversations and cross-fertilization across disciplinary and chronological boundaries. The result is a potent tribute to the historical significance of this region and the instrumental role it has played in the shaping of past, present and future Afro-Eurasian worlds.

Author : Stephan Conermann,Toru Miura
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847010319

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Studies on the History and Culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517) by Stephan Conermann,Toru Miura Pdf

The general field of study of this volume is the history and culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517). It contains the proceedings of the First German-Japanese Workshop held at the Toyo Bunko in Tokyo, Japan. The authors write about a variety of topics from rural irrigation systems to high diplomacy vis à vis the Safavid empire and the Ottoman threat. The volume includes case studies of important personalities and families living in the centres of Mamluk power such as Cairo and Damascus as well as analyses of contemporary writers and their stance toward the ruling military class. Next to innovation in the field, this volume is an agenda of an increasing globalisation of scholarship that is fertilizing future research.

Author : Corinna Rossi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000624915

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Egypt, Greece, and Rome by Corinna Rossi Pdf

Historical events literally took place in specific contexts; 'where things are' shapes 'how things are'. In this book, Corinna Rossi examines how three different ways of interacting with the surrounding world were shaped by their physical context in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Following a discussion on the relationship between history and geography, Rossi delves into the geographical settings of these three civilisations, analysing human mobility within them and how cultural development was shaped by these movements. Rossi also identifies three possible models to describe the three different approaches specific to each of these ancient societies. Egypt, Greece, and Rome: A History of Space and Places is suitable for students and scholars with previous understanding of these three civilisations and an interest in the relationship between history and geography.

Author : Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295748900

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Ancient Egypt and Early China by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low Pdf

Although they existed more than a millennium apart, the great civilizations of New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1548–1086 BCE) and Han dynasty China (206 BCE–220 CE) shared intriguing similarities. Both were centered around major, flood-prone rivers—the Nile and the Yellow River—and established complex hydraulic systems to manage their power. Both spread their territories across vast empires that were controlled through warfare and diplomacy and underwent periods of radical reform led by charismatic rulers—the “heretic king” Akhenaten and the vilified reformer Wang Mang. Universal justice was dispensed through courts, and each empire was administered by bureaucracies staffed by highly trained scribes who held special status. Egypt and China each developed elaborate conceptions of an afterlife world and created games of fate that facilitated access to these realms. This groundbreaking volume offers an innovative comparison of these two civilizations. Through a combination of textual, art historical, and archaeological analyses, Ancient Egypt and Early China reveals shared structural traits of each civilization as well as distinctive features.

Author : Mark Altaweel,Yijie Zhuang
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781911576716

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Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present by Mark Altaweel,Yijie Zhuang Pdf

Today our societies face great challenges with water, in terms of both quantity and quality, but many of these challenges have already existed in the past. Focusing on Asia, Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present seeks to highlight the issues that emerge or re-emerge across different societies and periods, and asks what they can tell us about water sustainability. Incorporating cutting-edge research and pioneering field surveys on past and present water management practices, the interdisciplinary contributors together identify how societies managed water resource challenges and utilised water in ways that allowed them to evolve, persist, or drastically alter their environment. The case studies, from different periods, ancient and modern, and from different regions, including Egypt, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Southwest United States, the Indus Basin, the Yangtze River, the Mesopotamian floodplain, the early Islamic city of Sultan Kala in Turkmenistan, and ancient Korea, offer crucial empirical data to readers interested in comparing the dynamics of water management practices across time and space, and to those who wish to understand water-related issues through conceptual and quantitative models of water use. The case studies also challenge classical theories on water management and social evolution, examine and establish the deep historical roots and ecological foundations of water sustainability issues, and contribute new grounds for innovations in sustainable urban planning and ecological resilience.

Author : Maggie Roe,Ken Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317963714

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New Cultural Landscapes by Maggie Roe,Ken Taylor Pdf

While historical and protected landscapes have been well studied for years, the cultural significance of ordinary landscapes is now increasingly recognised. This groundbreaking book discusses how contemporary cultural landscapes can be, and are, created and recognised. The book challenges common concepts of cultural landscapes as protected or ‘special’ landscapes that include significant buildings or features. Using case studies from around the world it questions the usual measures of judgement related to cultural landscapes and instead focuses on landscapes that are created, planned or simply evolve as a result of changing human cultures, management policy and practice. Each contribution analyses the geographical and human background of the landscape, and policies and management strategies that impact upon it, and defines the meanings of 'cultural landscape' in its particular context. Taken together they establish a new paradigm in the study of landscapes in all forms.