Religion
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From Akhenaten to Moses [Hardback]
Jan Assmann (Author)
£24.95ISBN: 9789774166310
Published by : American University in Cairo Press
The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses-a figure of history and a figure of tradition-symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations tha... .... Learn More -
The Awakening of Osiris and the Transit of the Solar Barques [Hardback]
Joshua Aaron Roberson (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9783727817465
Published by : Academic Press Fribourg
Among the many scenes and texts that occur for the first time in the Nineteenth Dynasty cenotaph of Seti I at Abydos is a representation of the awakening of Osiris by Horus, which appears directly beneath a vignette depicting the ... .... Learn More -
Transformation of a Goddess [Hardback]
Sugimoto (Author)
£59.95ISBN: 9783727817489
Published by : Academic Press Fribourg
This book deals with the changing nature of the goddess Ishtar/Astarte/Aphrodite, who was widely revered in the ancient West Asia and the Mediterranean world and was known by different names. Although the three names are often clo... .... Learn More -
Body, Cosmos and Eternity [Paperback]
Rogerio Sousa (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9781784910020
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
Volume: 3
In February 2013, the Symposium Body, Cosmos and Eternity: the Symbolism of Coffins in Ancient Egypt convened at the historical building of the University of Porto to debate conceptual frameworks underlying the contemporary study ... .... Learn More -
Redefining the Sacred [Hardback]
Elizabeth Frood (Editor); Rubina Raja (Editor)
£68.00ISBN: 9782503541044
Published by : Brepols
Redefining the Sacred originates in an international European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop of the same name held at the University of Oxford in 2009 , and is the launch volume for the series Contextualising the Sacred. ... .... Learn More -
Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt [Paperback]
Jan Assmann (Author)
£23.50ISBN: 9780801479731
Published by : Cornell University Press
"Human Beings", the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge". In this, his new book, Assmann expl... .... Learn More -
Ancient Lives New Discoveries: Eight Mummies, Eight Stories [Paperback]
John H. Taylor (Author); Daniel Antoine (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9780714119120
Published by : British Museum Press
In recent years, British Museum curators have collaborated with scientists and medical experts to find new ways of studying ancient Egyptian mummies. Ever-developing, non-invasive scanning techniques have produced astonishing resu... .... Learn More -
Unwrapping Ancient Egypt [Hardback]
Christina Riggs (Author)
£110.00ISBN: 9780857855398
Published by : Bloomsbury
In ancient Egypt, wrapping sacred objects, including mummified bodies, in layers of cloth was a ritual that lay at the core of Egyptian society. Yet in the modern world, attention has focused instead on unwrapping all the careful ... .... Learn More -
Unwrapping Ancient Egypt [Paperback]
Christina Riggs (Author)
£29.99ISBN: 9780857855077
Published by : Bloomsbury
In ancient Egypt, wrapping sacred objects, including mummified bodies, in layers of cloth was a ritual that lay at the core of Egyptian society. Yet in the modern world, attention has focused instead on unwrapping all the careful ... .... Learn More -
Religio Duplex [Hardback]
Jan Assmann (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9780745668420
Published by : Polity Press
In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of 'religio duplex', or dual religion. He begins by returning to t... .... Learn More
