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Author : Jill Kamil
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9774243927
A description of life in the 'Old Kingdom'
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780870999079
"The Egyptian Old Kingdom (c. 2650-2150 BC) was an era of extraordinary artistic achievement-the period that gave us the Sphinx and the pyramids as well as a rich legacy of private tombs, wall paintings, reliefs, statuary, jewelry, and decorative arts. This book, the companion volume to a major traveling exhibition organized by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre in Paris, showcases the most impressive assemblage of Egyptian art and artifacts since the Tutankhamun exhibition of the late 1970s. Scholarly essays and 650 illustrations bring to life a remarkable panoply of Old Kingdom objects-temple and tomb reliefs, striking gold jewelry, handsome stone vessels, monumental statues, stelae, and exquisite statuettes. Together, text and images create a stunning tribute to the world of the Pharaohs"--Publisher's description.
Author : Emmet John Sweeney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 095244173X
Author : Ronald J. Leprohon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004130487
Strudwick's helpful introduction to the history and literature of this seminal period provides important background for reading and understanding these historical texts. Like other volumes in the Writings from the Ancient World series, this work will soon become a standard with students and scholars alike."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Peter Der Manuelian,Thomas Schneider
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004301894
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 : Reg Clark
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784913007
This book presents an in-depth analysis of the architecture of tomb security in Egypt from the Predynastic Period until the early Fourth Dynasty by extrapolating data on the security features of published tombs from the whole of Egypt and gathering it together for the first time in one accessible database.
Author : Jeanette Leardi
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781597162661
Examines the building of this great tomb.
Author : Emmet John Sweeney
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875865683
Ages in Alignment.
Author : Nigel Strudwick
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781589831384
Ancient Egypt is well known for its towering monuments and magnificent statuary, but other aspects of its civilization are less well known, especially its written texts. Now Texts from the Pyramid Age provides ready access to new translations of a representative selection of texts ranging from the historically significant to the repetitive formulae of the tomb inscriptions from Old Kingdom Egypt (ca. 2700-2170 B.C.). These royal and private inscriptions, coming from both the secular and religious milieus and from all kinds of physical contexts, not only shed light on the administration, foreign expeditions, and funerary beliefs of the period but also bring to life the Egyptians themselves, revealing how they saw the world and how they wanted the world to see them. Strudwick's helpful introduction to the history and literature of this seminal period provides important background for reading and understanding these historical texts.
Author : GILORMINI
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312793200
Author : Bob Brier,Jean-Pierre Houdin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061981784
A decade ago, French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin became obsessed by the centuriesold question: How was the Great Pyramid built? How, in a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age, could such a massive, complex, and enduring structure have been envisioned and constructed? Laboring at his computer ten hours a day for five years—creating exquisitely detailed 3-D models of the Pyramid's interior—Houdin finally had his answer. It was a startling revelation that cast a fresh light on the minds that conceived one of the wonders of the ancient world. Written by world-renowned Egyptologist Bob Brier in collaboration with Houdin, The Secret of the Great Pyramid moves deftly between the ancient and the modern, chronicling two equally fascinating interrelated histories. It is a remarkable account of the step-by-step planning and assembling of the magnificent edifice—the brainchild of an innovative genius, the Egyptian architect Hemienu, who imagined, organized, and oversaw a monumental construction project that took more than two decades to complete and that employed the services of hundreds of architects, mathematicians, boatbuilders, stonemasons, and metallurgists. Here also is the riveting story of Jean-Pierre Houdin's single-minded search for solutions to the mysteries that have bedeviled Egyptologists for centuries, such as the purpose of the enigmatic Grand Gallery and the Pyramid's crack.
Author : Jason Colavito
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684351497
Could the Great Pyramid of Giza be a repository of ancient magical knowledge? Or perhaps evidence of a vanished pre–Ice Age civilization? Misinformation and myths have attached themselves to the Egyptian pyramids since ancient Greece and Rome. While many Americans believe that the pyramids were built by aliens, archaeologists understand that the Giza pyramids were built by the pharaohs of the Fourth Dynasty around 2450 BCE. So why is there such a disconnect between scholarly opinion and the popular view of Egypt? In The Legends of the Pyramids, Jason Colavito takes us back to Late Antique Egypt, where the replacement of polytheism with Christianity gave rise to local efforts to rewrite the stories of Egyptian history in the image of the Bible. When the Arab conquest absorbed Egypt into the Islamic community, these stories then passed into Islamic historiography and reentered the West. Colavito's The Legends of the Pyramids lays open pop culture's view of Egypt in movies, TV shows, popular books, and New Age beliefs, detailing how the hidden history of Egypt has grown alongside the official history of archaeology and Egyptology.
Author : David Macaulay
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982-04-26
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547348391
“The mystery of the pyramids is solved before our eyes” in this illustrated YA guide to their construction by the Caldecott Medal-winning author (Kirkus). In Pyramid, acclaimed author and illustrator David Macaulay explores the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids from the initial planning stages to the methods used to lift stones up to the structure’s highest level. Through concise text and richly detailed black and white illustrations your readers are introduced not only to ancient Egyptian engineering, tools, and labor practices, but also the philosophy of life, death, and afterlife that made these awe-inspiring monuments necessary as a pharaoh’s final resting place. "Macaulay's brilliant Pyramid shows, detail by detail, how the great pharaohs' burial places were conceived and constructed… His draftsmanship is unexcelled, and his book is pharaonic in opulence and design."—Time
Author : Meredith Hooper
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Pyramids
ISBN : 0763673803
Describes the roles of everyone involved in building Senwosret's pyramid, from the king himself to a lowly water carrier.
Author : Andrew Collins
Publisher : ARE Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780876045718
Exploring Egypt's lost underworld for the first time"--Cover
