Religion

ISBN: 9780856982002
Published by : Egypt Exploration Society
The Mother of Apis inscriptions (534-41 BC), found in 1966-71 in and outside the Mother of Apis Catacomb at North Saqqara by the Egypt Exploration Society, comprise the stelae and graffiti of the masons who constructed the catacomb and of the p... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923806
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS
Volume: 82
Hope for life after death is evidenced even in prehistoric times in Upper Egypt. The first written aids for attaining and supporting life in the hereafter were the Pyramid Texts inscribed within royal tombs towards the end of the Old Kingdom. I... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781848850507
Published by : Tauris & Co Ltd
The funeral laments of Upper Egypt have an elaborate and ancient history stretching back more than 5,000 years. Even the chants of modern-day lamenters, echo the words of their ancestors. The laments - known as idid in Arabic - are composed or... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781846143694
Published by : Penguin Books Ltd
The Egyptians, Joyce Tyldesley informs us in her rintroduction recognised over 1500 deities during their 3000 year history. This book explores the main myths and legends which were told about them, presenting or retelling and then analysing the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004188822
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Moving away from a focus on the cult's diffusion throughout the Mediterranean world, these studies examine the cults of Isis in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt itself. Th e contributors relect on how the theology, iconography and understanding of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788073083342
Published by : Czech Institute of Egyptology
The first millennium BCE represents for Egypt a period of tremendous changes and developments on the political, social, economic and religious level. The millennium was shaped and characterised by a continuous interaction between Egypt as an i... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415411707
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This book deals with the title and institution God's Wife of Amun , held by five royal princesses, each the daughter of a king, and which represented an unprecedented extention of royal iconography traditionally reserved for the male ruler. This... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783110204612
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
The present volume is concerned with the posthumous cult of Amenhotep I and his mother Ahmes Nefertari, which starts in the private tombs of the Theban Necropolis nearly 200 years after their deaths. A chronological examination of the represent... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783110203936
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
In this volume, Egyptologists present finds and pieces of architecture from the tombs of high officials of the New Kingdom in Saqqara and the burial sites of two princes in the Valley of Kings together with the tomb of a man in Giza who took pa... .... Learn More