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Author : Kay Winters
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781426304002
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Author : R. B. Parkinson
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
Voices from Ancient Egypt is an anthology presenting translations of sixty documents from a golden age of ancient Egyptian culture (c. 2081 - 1600 BC). The documents illustrate all aspects of life and the place of literacy in an early civilisation. The 'voices' range from the high formal literature of religious rituals and royal monuments to the hurried requests of the bureaucrats and the jokes of harrassed workmen. They tell a tale not only of the intellectual beliefs of the elite, but of family feuds, love and murder, as well as the pastoral dreams of a society trying to attain its vision of absolute order in a chaotic universe. This volume is a reissue of the valuable introduction to ancient Egyptian literature, first published in 1991.
Author : Mark Collier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520215979
Introduces the reader to the hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt through a practical course concentrating on real inscriptions.
Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307430073
Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to his homeland’s majestic past in this enchanting collection of early tales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with our own times. From the Predynastic Period, where a cabal of entrenched rulers banish virtue in jealous defense of their status, to the Fifth Dynasty, where a Pharaoh returns from an extended leave to find that only his dog has remained loyal, to the twentieth century, where a mummy from the Eighteenth Dynasty awakens in fury to reproach a modern Egyptian nobleman for his arrogance, these five stories conduct timeless truths over the course of thousands of years. Summoning the power and mystery of a legendary civilization, they examplify the artistry that has made Mahfouz among the most revered writers in world literature. Translated by Raymond Stock
Author : Gianluca Miniaci
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Artisans
ISBN : 9789088905230
This book provides an innovative analysis of the conditions of ancient Egyptian craftsmanship in the light of the archaeology of production, linguistic analysis, visual representation and ethnographic research. During the past decades, the "imaginative" figure of ancient Egyptian material producers has moved from "workers" to "artisans" and, most recently, to "artists". In a search for a fuller understanding of the pragmatics of material production in past societies, and moving away from a series of modern preconceptions, this volume aims to analyse the mechanisms of material production in Egypt during the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BC), to approach the profile of ancient Egyptian craftsmen through their own words, images and artefacts, and to trace possible modes of circulation of ideas among craftsmen in material production. The studies in the volume address the mechanisms of ancient production in Middle Bronze Age Egypt, the circulation of ideas among craftsmen, and the profiles of the people involved, based on the material traces, including depictions and writings, the ancient craftsmen themselves left and produced.
Author : Leonard H. Lesko
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520316924
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
Author : Roger Bagnall
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 047203622X
The private letters of ancient women in Egypt from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest
Author : Rosalie David
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : History
ISBN :
Supporting the current trends toward document-based teaching, this book introduces the reader to the multifaceted world of ancient Egypt through revealing excerpts from 51 texts written by Egyptians themselves. A wealth of evidence survives to tell the stories of ancient Egypt, including monuments, artifacts, paintings, sculptures, human remains, and literature. But there is yet another way to access this fascinating culture—through original writings that span the period from circa 3100 BCE to 400 CE. This book's 51 documents include schoolboys' letters and exercises, prayers, hymns, love poems, narratives, historical inscriptions, medical and mathematical texts, and religious and funerary inscriptions. Most of the texts are penned by Egyptians, but another perspective is added through the inclusion of commentary about Egypt by the Greek historian Herodotus. The documents are divided into sections to shed light on numerous aspects of Egyptian life including domestic values and household provision, economics, intellectual concerns, government and warfare, recreational life, and religious beliefs and practices. Each section provides historical context and discusses the meaning and significance of the individual excerpt. The work highlights related themes and ideas to encourage students to explore the legacy of ancient Egypt in an essay, paper, drama production, or class presentation.
Author : Eva Von Dassow
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 2008-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811864893
Reissue of the legendary 3,500-year-old Papyrus of Ani, the most beautiful of the ornately illustrated Egyptian funerary scrolls ever discovered, restored in its original sequences of text and artwork.
Author : Linda Bailey
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781550745467
An exciting blend of fact and fiction and comic-book style illustrations make learning about Ancient Egypt fun in this book in the Good Times Travel Agency series.