Search results for 'egypt'

ISBN: 9789774248405
Published by : American Univ. in Cairo Press
This book sees Tregenza's two classic accounts of Egypt brought together, along with a new foreword by Joseph J Hobbs. Originally published in 1955 and 1958, The Red Sea Mountains of Egypt and Egyptian Years are detailed and beguiling accoun... .... Learn More

Published by : American Research Centre in Egypt
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ISBN: 9782902685738
Published by : Brepols
Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt
English summary: Like a snapshot, land surveys offer a global vision of a village and its geography, inhabitants, and tenure repartition at a certain point in time. In 1375, Philippe de Harcourt, who was about to marry Jeanne de Tilly, orde... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300170948
Published by : Yale University Press
This masterful history of the monumental architecture of Alexandria, as well as of the rest of Egypt, encompasses an entire millenniumfrom the citys founding by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. to the years just after the Islamic conquest of A.D... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780471743583
Published by : John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Oxbow says: Though well versed in strategy and diplomacy, the Egyptians pharaohs of the Late 18th Dynasty had a large, sophisticated and well equipped army which they could, and did, put to great effect against their enemies. Based on written ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780801444722
Published by : Cornell Univ Press
In the first part of this book Françoise Dunand gives an overview of the history of mummification in Egypt from the prehistoric to the Roman period. She thoroughly describes the preparations of the dead (tombs and their furnishings, funerary of... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780197263907
Published by : Oxford University Press
The manner in which government practices and personnel survive the violent disruption of regime change is an issue of current relevance, yet is a subject which has largely been ignored by modern scholarship. These essays, covering more than fou... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521871372
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book is the first comprehensive survey of Egypt to treat this entire period including the first half-century of Arab rule. Twenty-one renowned specialists present the history, society, economy, culture, religious institutions, art and arch... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521145879
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book is the first comprehensive survey of Egypt to treat this entire period including the first half-century of Arab rule. Twenty-one renowned specialists present the history, society, economy, culture, religious institutions, art and arch... .... Learn More