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Tutankhamun: Eternal Splendour of Boy Pharaoh
by T.G.H. James
Howard Carter's discovery - the intact royal burial of Tutankhamun - ranks amongst the greatest archaeological triumphs of all time. The boy king's golden funerary mask is perhaps the most celebrated single masterpiece from the ancient world, but his tomb, largely undisturbed when Carter cut through the priestly door-seals in 1922, was filled with a wealth of other less well-known objects, mostly designed for the king's enjoyment in the ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$75.00, Our Price US$24.98
Taureador Scenes in Tell El-Dab'a (Avaris) and Knossos
by Manfred Bietak, Nanno Marinatos and Clairy Palyvou with a contribution by Ann Brysbaert
This book has a long history of production and has undergone many changes. It is the first full publication of the wall paintings from a palatial complex of the Tuthmoside Period at 'Ezbet Helmi/Tell el-Dab'a excavated since 1991. The primeval version of the evaluation of the bull frescoes was presented at a symposium in honour of the world-renowned Aegean scholar Sinclair Hood on the 15th of April 1994 at Oxford (see p. 45, n. 100). Being a ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$113.00, Our Price US$90.00
Tombs at Giza, Volume 2: Seshathetep/Heti (G5150), Nesutnefer (G4970) and Seshemnefer II (G5080)
by Naguib Kanawati
Earlier published records of the mastabas at Giza have provided a wealth of information about the art, architecture, history and burial customs of Old Kingdom Egypt; but these records are now proved to be incomplete and to contain some inaccuracies. The ...
Paperback. Price US$110.00
Commerce and Economy in Ancient Egypt: Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Young Egyptologists 25-27 September 2009, Budapest
edited by András Hudecz and Máté Petrik
Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Young Egyptologists held in Budapest in September 2009. Contents: Foreword: Earning a Living in a New Kingdom Village (Jac. J. Janssen); 1) The Olive Tree Cultivation and Trade in Ancient Egypt (Jose M. ...
Paperback. Price US$95.00
Desert Days: My Life as a Field Archaeologist
by Fred Wendorf
408p (Texas A&M UP 2008)
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$29.95, Our Price US$24.00
Gerzeh, A Cemetery Shortly Before History
by Alice Stevenson
This booklet provides an introduction to one prehistoric Egyptian cemetery excavated in the early 20 th century. The Predynastic is, to many people, one of the more unfamiliar periods in ancient Egyptian history and this short overview aims to introduce ...
Paperback. Price US$16.00
Catalogue of Palaeolithic Artefacts from Egypt in the Pitt Rivers Museum
by Sarah Milliken
Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum houses seventeen collections of Palaeolithic material from Egypt, comprising a total of 1009 objects. None of the objects were recovered during excavation but many were found by pioneers of prehistoric archaeology and notable ...
Paperback. Price US$92.50
The Spatial Structure of Kom el-Hisn: An Old Kingdom Town in the Western Nile Delta, Egypt
by Anthony Cagle
Kom el-Hisn is one of the few Old Kingdom sites located in the Nile Delta to have been the subject of a systematic program of excavation. Based on this program of research Anthony Cagle analyses the site data through an approach based on Darwinian ...
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Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara Volume 2: The Pottery of Nabta Playa
by Kit Nelson
A report on the ceramic evidence from the site of Nabta Playa in the eastern Sahara. The site is important in defining the cultural sequence and chronology for the area, the earliest examples of which reaches back 6000 years. The methodology for analysing ...
Hardback. Price US$75.00
Current Research in Egyptology 2000
edited by Angela McDonald and Christina Riggs
A collection of 17 papers by graduate students, taken from a symposium held at Oxford in 2000, presenting new and on-going research on a variety of aspects of Egytptian society, art, culture and history. Subjects include: royal sculpture, women's public ...
Paperback. Price US$80.00
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