The Phoebe A Hearst Expedition To Naga Ed Deir Cemeteries N 2000 And N 2500

Author : Vanessa Davies
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004396906

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The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N 2500 by Vanessa Davies Pdf

The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N 2500 presents the results of excavations directed by George A. Reisner and led by Arthur C. Mace. The site of Naga ed-Deir, Egypt, is unusual for its continued use over a long period of time (c. 3500 BCE–650 CE). Burials in N 2000 and N 2500 date to the First Intermediate Period/Middle Kingdom and the Coptic era. In keeping with Reisner’s earlier publications of Naga ed-Deir, this volume presents artifacts in chapter-length studies devoted to a particular object type and includes a burial-by-burial description. The excavators’ original drawings, notes, and photographs are complemented by a contemporary analysis of the objects by experts in their subfields.

Author : Martin Odler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 861 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004527690

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Copper in Ancient Egypt by Martin Odler Pdf

The first comprehensive and up-to-date overview of what we know about the use of copper by the ancient Egyptians and Nubians, from the Predynastic through the Early Dynastic until the end of the Second Intermediate Period (c. 4000-1600 BC). The monograph presents a story, based on the analysis of available evidence, a synchronic and diachronic reconstruction of the development and changes of the chaîne opératoire of copper and copper alloy artefacts. The book argues that Egypt was not isolated from the rest of the ancient world and that popular notions of its "primitive" technology are not based on facts.

Author : Jacquelyn Williamson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004325555

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Nefertiti’s Sun Temple (2 vols.) by Jacquelyn Williamson Pdf

In Nefertiti’s Sun Temple Jacquelyn Williamson reconstructs art and inscriptions from the ancient city at Tell el-Amarna to locate Queen Nefertiti’s ‘Sunshade of Re’ temple and a mortuary site that served the funerary needs of the non-royal courtiers.

Author : Rachel Finnegan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004440050

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Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740) by Rachel Finnegan Pdf

In Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740), Rachel Finnegan provides edited transcripts of the full run of correspondence from Richard Pococke’s famous eastern voyage from 1737-40, together with updated biographical accounts of the author and his correspondents (his mother, Elizabeth Pococke and his uncle and patron, Bishop Thomas Milles).

Author : Alice Stevenson
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787351424

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Scattered Finds by Alice Stevenson Pdf

Between the 1880s and 1980s, British excavations at locations across Egypt resulted in the discovery of hundreds of thousands of ancient objects that were subsequently sent to some 350 institutions worldwide. These finds included unique discoveries at iconic sites such as the tombs of ancient Egypt's first rulers at Abydos, Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s city of Tell el-Amarna and rich Roman Era burials in the Fayum. Scattered Finds explores the politics, personalities and social histories that linked fieldwork in Egypt with the varied organizations around the world that received finds. Case studies range from Victorian municipal museums and women’s suffrage campaigns in the UK, to the development of some of the USA’s largest institutions, and from university museums in Japan to new institutions in post-independence Ghana. By juxtaposing a diversity of sites for the reception of Egyptian cultural heritage over the period of a century, Alice Stevenson presents new ideas about the development of archaeology, museums and the construction of Egyptian heritage. She also addresses the legacy of these practices, raises questions about the nature of the authority over such heritage today, and argues for a stronger ethical commitment to its stewardship. Praise for Scattered Finds 'Scattered Finds is a remarkable achievement. In charting how British excavations in Egypt dispersed artefacts around the globe, at an unprecedented scale, Alice Stevenson shows us how ancient objects created knowledge about the past while firmly anchored in the present. No one who reads this timely book will be able to look at an Egyptian antiquity in the same way again.' Professor Christina Riggs, UEA

Author : Barbara G. Aston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055193000

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Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels by Barbara G. Aston Pdf

Aston studies the stone types used by the ancient Egyptians in the production of different artefact types. Having made a thorough study of stone vessels in a number of museums, Aston collected stone samples from both known and potential quarry sites. Each stone type is discussed in turn, and then the different forms of the vessels produced. A glossary of geological terms is given at the back, as well as the names of stones in English, French and German.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1052811851

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Mummies & Magic by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vanessa Davies
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004380226

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Peace in Ancient Egypt by Vanessa Davies Pdf

In Peace in Ancient Egypt, Vanessa Davies offers a new analysis of the ancient Egyptian concept of hetep ("peace").

Author : Vanessa Davies,Dimitri Laboury
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190083731

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The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography by Vanessa Davies,Dimitri Laboury Pdf

The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient culture's records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts. Epigraphy and palaeography are two distinct, but closely related, ways of recording, analyzing, and interpreting texts and images. This Handbook stresses technical issues about recording text and art and interpretive questions about what we do with those records and why we do it. It offers readers three key things: a diachronic perspective, covering all ancient Egyptian scripts from prehistoric Egypt through the Coptic era (fourth millennium BCE-first half of first millennium CE), a look at recording techniques that considers the past, present, and future, and a focus on the experiences of colleagues. The diachronic perspective illustrates the range of techniques used to record different phases of writing in different media. The consideration of past, present, and future techniques allows readers to understand and assess why epigraphy and palaeography is or was done in a particular manner by linking the aims of a particular effort with the technique chosen to reach those aims. The choice of techniques is a matter of goals and the records' work circumstances, an inevitable consequence of epigraphy being a double projection: geometrical, transcribing in two dimensions an object that exists physically in three; and mental, an interpretation, with an inevitable selection among the object's defining characteristics. The experiences of colleagues provide a range of perspectives and opinions about issues such as techniques of recording, challenges faced in the field, and ways of reading and interpreting text and image. These accounts are interesting and instructive stories of innovation in the face of scientific conundrum.

Author : Andrey O. Bolshakov
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bas-relief
ISBN : 3447051841

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Studies on Old Kingdom Reliefs and Sculpture in the Hermitage by Andrey O. Bolshakov Pdf

The book is the first complete publication of a relatively small but interesting collection of Old Kingdom monuments in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Twenty-two pieces are reproduced as black-and-white photographs and line drawings. Among them are two statues, fourteen reliefs and relief fragments, five offering stones and a fragment of an ointment tablet; several objects in museums of Cairo, Copenhagen, and Cambridge belonging to the same people are published as well. Most of these monuments were never published or are known only through books and periodicals in Russian that usually are not available in Egyptological libraries. Although the Hermitage pieces were acquired at antiquities dealers without any documentation, their modern history is traced and in a half of cases either their provenance is reconstructed or related monuments are found. A limited number of monuments allowed the author to discuss them to a much greater extent than it is common in museum publications and, thus, the book in spite of its structure of a catalogue virtually is a detailed study of various problems of Old Kingdom history and ideology.

Author : Cassandra Vivian
Publisher : Amer Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9774160908

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The Western Desert of Egypt by Cassandra Vivian Pdf

Already the most comprehensive guide ever for desert and oasis travel in Egypt west of the Nile, The Western Desert of Egypt: An Explorer's Handbook has now been fully revised and updated for the latest generation of twenty-first century desert adventurers. Fully illustrated with some 50 maps and plans and over 270 drawings, the guide covers both the natural history and the human history of the desert and the oases. It then explores chapter by chapter the oases of Kharga, Dakhla, Farafra, Bahariya, Fayoum, and Siwa, and the desert areas of al-Diffa (the northern, semiarid edge of the desert), the Darb al-Arbain caravan route in the south, and Uwaynat (including Gilf Kebir) in the southwest. Descriptions of routes, sites, people, and places are complemented by practical information on places to stay, eat, and fill your gas tank. Global positioning system (GPS) waypoints are provided as an aid to navigation on many routes--though for the sake of conservation and the protection of unguarded antiquities they are not given for remote sites. Almost encyclopedic in its scope, this is the one guide that belongs on the bookshelf, dashboard, or rucksack of every Western Desert traveler.

Author : Gilda Hernández Sánchez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004204409

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Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest by Gilda Hernández Sánchez Pdf

Focusing on the native ceramic technology of central Mexico during the early colonial period and the present-day, this book offers a refreshing view into the process of cultural continuity and change in the indigenous Mesoamerican world after the Spanish conquest.

Author : Michael Lind,Javier Urcid
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607320425

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The Lords of Lambityeco by Michael Lind,Javier Urcid Pdf

The Valley of Oaxaca was unified under the rule of Monte Albán until its collapse around AD 800. Using findings from John Paddock’s long-term excavations at Lambityeco from 1961 to 1976, Michael Lind and Javier Urcid examine the political and social organization of the ancient community during the Xoo Phase (Late Classic period).Focusing on change within this single archaeological period rather than between time periods, The Lords of Lambityeco traces the changing political relationships between Lambityeco and Monte Albán that led to the fall of the Zapotec state. Using detailed analysis of elite and common houses, tombs, and associated artifacts, the authors demonstrate increased political control by Monte Albán over Lambityeco prior to the abandonment of both settlements. Lambityeco is the most thoroughly researched Classic period site in the valley after Monte Albán, but only a small number of summary articles have been published about this important locale. This, in combination with Lambityeco’s status as a secondary center—one that allows for greater understanding of core and periphery dynamics in the Monte Albán state—makes The Lords of Lambityeco a welcome and significant contribution to the literature on ancient Mesoamerica.

Author : Colin A. Hope
Publisher : Bloomsbury Shire Publications
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : UOM:39015013124204

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Egyptian Pottery by Colin A. Hope Pdf

Author : Foy Scalf
Publisher : Oriental Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Book of the dead
ISBN : 1614910383

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Book of the Dead by Foy Scalf Pdf

Discover how the ancient Egyptians controlled their immortal destiny! This book, edited by Foy Scalf, explores what the Book of the Dead was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and what happened to it.