Egypt
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Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis [Hardback]
Peter Der Manuelian (Author)
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ISBN: 9780974002514
Published by : The Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University and The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt
Volume: 7
Fifteen slab stelae and stela fragments were found set into the exterior walls of the Giza mastaba tombs from the reign of Khufu and his successors. Taken as a group, they provide one of the most important sources of Egyptian artistic and histo... .... Learn More -
Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh [Paperback]
Joyce A. Tyldesley (Author)
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ISBN: 9780140244649
Published by : Viking
A rare insight into the controversial rule of Hatchepsut, a woman prepared to defy tradition in acceding to the divine throne of the pharaohs. Preferring to be known not as " Queen", but rather as " King", she took to dressing in men's clothes ... .... Learn More -
La dévolution des fonctions en Égypte pharaonique. Étude critique de la documentation disponible [Paperback]
Marcella Trapani (Author)
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ISBN: 9781906137397
Published by : Golden House Publications
Volume: 22
The study evaluates the ways of access to offices in Pharaonic Egypt from the Old to the New Kingdom. It aims at a better understanding of the appointment (or removal) systems of officials through the interpretation of texts and the study of icono... .... Learn More -
The Demotic and Hieratic Papyri in the Suzuki Collection of Tokai University Japan [Hardback]
Kyoko Yamahana (Author); Joseph Manning (Author); Richard Jasnow (Author)
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ISBN: 9781937040628
Published by : Lockwood Press
This volume publishes, for the first time, approximately fifty late Egyptian texts from the Suzuki collection held at Tokai University, Japan. The project is a result of a five-year collaboration between Tokai University, Yale University, Johns Ho... .... Learn More -
Lotus and Laurel [Hardback]
Rune Nyord (Editor); Kim Ryholt (Editor)
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ISBN: 9788763542081
Published by : Museum Tusculanum Press
Lotus and Laurel brings together a wealth of essays in celebration of Paul John Frandsen, who has had a distinguished career as a scholar of ancient Egyptian language and religion. The contributors are friends, colleagues, or former students, and ... .... Learn More -
A Castration Story from the Tebtunis Temple Library [Hardback]
Rana Serida (Author)
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ISBN: 9788763544320
Published by : Museum Tusculanum Press
This volume presents the first edition of a hitherto unattested narrative from the Tebtunis temple library (1st-2nd century AD). The story seems to have formed part of the so-called Inaros Cycle; it is set in the reign of king Necho I (672-664 BC)... .... Learn More -
City of the Ram-Man: The Story of Ancient Mendes [Hardback]
Donald B. Redford (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691142265
Published by : Princeton University Press
In this richly illustrated book, Donald Redford draws on the latest discoveries - including many of his own - to tell the story of the ancient Egyptian city of Mendes, home of the mysterious cult of the 'fornicating ram who mounts the beauties'... .... Learn More -
History of Egypt From Earliest Times to the Present [Hardback]
Jason Thompson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780307473523
Published by : Anchor Books
This cohesive account of Egypt's millennia-long past offers readers a sure guide through the corridors of Egypt's past, from the mysterious predynastic kingdoms to the nation-state of the twentieth century. The author addresses central issues such... .... Learn More -
Cleopatra the Great: The Woman Behind the Legend [Paperback]
Joann Fletcher (Author)
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ISBN: 9780060585594
Published by : Harper Collins Publishers
This well-written biogrpahy of Cleopatra follows the recent trend of emphasising the Egyptian context of her life and actions, rather through the eyes of the main Roman literary sources. Throughout Fletcher draws attention to the physical surr... .... Learn More -
Oasis Papers 8: Pleistocene Research in the Western Desert of Egypt [Paperback]
Maxine K. Kleindienst (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789255713
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Dakhleh Oasis Papers
Volume: 8
Not yet published - available for pre-order
This is the only volume to present significant results of research into the Pleistocene of the Western Desert of Egypt. Research on Pleistocene prehistoric remains in Dakhleh Oasis began during survey in the 1978 Dakhleh Oasis Project (DOP) season... .... Learn More
