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Who Travels Sees More: Artists, Architects and Archaeologists Discover Egypt and the Near East
edited by Diane Fortenberry
Who lives sees much, who travels sees more. The Arab proverb is an appropriate title for this latest collection of essays published by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East on its tenth anniversary. The desire to see what lay beyond the familiar landscapes of home shaped the lives of all the travellers discussed here. Their backgrounds and training as artists of one sort or another mean that they responded to ...
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Mammals of Ancient Egypt
by Dale J.Osborn and Jana Osbornová
The Egyptians had a peculiarly close relationship with animals as every visitor to Egypt who is captivated by the paintings and reliefs of the flora and fauna becomes aware. Animals seem to penetrate into every aspect of their daily lives and religious beliefs; both as wild animals for hunting and domestic animals for food and companionship. This encyclopedic and authoritative book focuses on the mammals depicted by the Egyptians and the many ...
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Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity
edited by D Michaelides, V Kassianidou and R Merrillees
The international conference 'Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity' held in Nicosia in April 2003 filled an important gap in historical knowledge about Cyprus' relations with its neighbours. While the island's links with the Aegean and the Levant have been well documented and continue to be the subject of much archaeological attention, the exchanges between Cyprus and the Nile Valley are not as well known and have not before been comprehensively ...
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Saddling the Dogs: Journeys Through Egypt and the Near East
edited by Diane Fortenberry and Deborah Manley
... of nomads to keep moving, whatever the obstacles, epitomizes also the travelling ethos of many early visitors to the 'exotic East'. The journeys examined here are linked by the light they shed on the experience of travel in Egypt, Greece and the Ottoman Balkans, and the Near East from the 17th to the early 20th century not so much what was seen as how one got there and how one got around once arrived; the vicissitudes and travails, both ...
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Egypt and Beyond: Essays Presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his Retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University, June 2005
edited by Stephen E. Thompson and Peter Der Manuelian
In June of 2005, Leonard Lesko retired after 23 years as Wilbour Professor and Chairman of the Department of Egyptology at Brown University. In recognition of his many contributions to the field of Egyptology, 24 colleagues from around the world, and from several fields of ancient studies, contributed articles to a festschrift in his honor. The contributions to the festschrift are as wide-ranging as are Leonard's interests. Contributions discuss ...
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Invention and Innovation: The Social Context of Technological Change II, Egypt, the Aegean and the Near East, 1650-1150 B.C.
edited by Janine Bourriau and Jacke Phillips
... with the inclusion of the Aegean and thematically, with papers on natural products and raw materials. The time frame remains the same in covering the Late Bronze Age/New Kingdom. The majority of the papers draw on Egyptian evidence, and illustrate a multiplicity of approaches to the problems set by ancient technologies: modelling, methodology of art history and archaeology applied to a problematic group of artefacts, integration of ...
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Egypt - Travel Sketches from the Orient: An Album of Lithographs by Karl Ludwig Libay, with Text from Alfred von Kremer
edited by Dusan Magdolen and Lucie Storchová
This is a modern edition of a richly illustrated travelogue of Austrian painter, Karl L Libay. He visited Egypt in the 1850s and there completed a remarkable set of aquarel paintings, later transposed into lithographs. The lithographs are accompanied with a text by a prominent Austrian scholar of that time, Alfred von Kremer, later the Austrian deputy in the powers' committee governing the Egyptian state debt in the late 1870s. The lively scenes ...
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Wretched Kush: Ethnic Identity in Egypt's Nubian Empire
by Stuart Tyson Smith
... units. Yet recent research suggests that ethnic boundaries are permeable, and that ethnic identities are contested, manipulated and overlapping. This is particularly true when cultures come into direct contact, as with the Egyptian conquest of Nubia in the second millennium BC.

Smith uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity. He begins by using the tools of anthropology, examining the ancient Egyptian ...
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Egypt 1350 BC to AD 1800: Art Historical and Archaeological Studies for Gawdat Gabra
edited by Marianne Eaton-Krauss, Cäcilia Fluck and Gertrud J.M. van Loon
English Description:This tribute by a bakers dozen of women to the esteemed Coptologist Gawdat Gabra comprises articles dealing with subjects reflecting his scholarly interests in the art and archaeology of Egypt which span more than three millennia. Following on Martin Krauses laudatio and the list of Gawdats publications, four contributions (among them the publication of a number of liturgical objects in metal) focus on holdings of ...
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La stèle de Ptolémée VIII Évergète II à Héracléion: Underwater Archaeology in the Canopic region in Egypt
by Christophe Thiers, with contributions by Franck Goddio and Luc Tamborero
This monograph presents a translation, commentary and interpretation of the bilingual monumental Stele of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, which stood in the temple district of Heracleion-Thonis in the north-western Nile Delta of Egypt. The six metre high stele was erected sometime between either 141/140 and 131 or 124 and 116 BC and was discovered during the excavations of the European Institute of Underwater Archaeology. Unfortunately, immersion ...
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