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Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt: Everything you wanted to know but forgot to ask

Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt: Everything you wanted to know but

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Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Egyptologist Dr Campbell Price asks us how...
The Obelisk and the Englishman: The Pioneering Discoveries of Egyptologist William Bankes

The Obelisk and the Englishman: The Pioneering Discoveries of

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Scholarly, mischievous, and driven by curiosity about the unknown, William John Bankes (1786-1855) was a complex and talented member of England's landed gentry. A friend of Lord Byron, he achieved...
A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt: From Abydos to the Sudan Frontier

A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt: From Abydos to the Sudan

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First published in 2005. This volume has been prepared for the use of visitors to the monuments of Upper Egypt, that is to say, all those situated between Balianeh, the...
Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction

Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction

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Cleopatra is one of the greatest romantic figures in history, the queen of Egypt whose beauty and allure is legendary. We think we know her story, but our image of...
Rethinking Roman Alliance: A Study in Poetics and Society

Rethinking Roman Alliance: A Study in Poetics and Society

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In this book, Bill Gladhill studies one of the most versatile concepts in Roman society, the ritual event that concluded an alliance, a foedus (ritual alliance). Foedus signifies the bonds...
Temple of the World: Sanctuaries, Cults, and Mysteries of Ancient Egypt

Temple of the World: Sanctuaries, Cults, and Mysteries of Ancient

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Despite the prominence of ancient temples in the landscape of Egypt, books about them are surprisingly rare. This new and essential publication from a prominent Czech scholar answers the need...
The Lost Manuscript of Frederic Cailliaud: Arts and Crafts of the Ancient Egyptians, Nubians, and Ethiopians

The Lost Manuscript of Frederic Cailliaud: Arts and Crafts of the

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The travel accounts, drawings, and collections of Fr d ric Cailliaud were an important early contribution to the birth of the new scientific discipline of Egyptology in the first half...
Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser

Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the

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The sensational discovery in 1922 of Tutankhamun's tomb, close on the heels of Britain's declaration of Egyptian independence, accelerated the growth in Egypt of both Egyptology as a formal discipline...
Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt v. 2; Nag Hammadi - Esna

Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt v. 2; Nag Hammadi - Esna

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Christianity and monasticism have flourished in Upper (southern) Egypt from as early as the fourth century until the present day. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from...
The Mummy Mystery

The Mummy Mystery

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Has the mummy of an angry Pharaoh come to life? Help time travellers Jade and Jack to investigate the mystery by solving lots of brain-teasing puzzles. Jade and Jack are...
Nephthys

Nephthys

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A captivating treasure of a novel about Clemmie, a young Victorian Egyptologist, and her entanglement with the legend of the goddess, Nephthys. A young Victorian Egyptologist. A family riven by...
The Cleopatras: Discover the powerful story of the seven queens of Ancient Egypt!

The Cleopatras: Discover the powerful story of the seven queens of

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'A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORECleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen.A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music,...
Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths

Ancient Egyptian Statues: Their Many Lives and Deaths

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A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals...
Temple of the World: Sanctuaries, Cults, and Mysteries of Ancient Egypt

Temple of the World: Sanctuaries, Cults, and Mysteries of Ancient

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Despite the prominence of ancient temples in the landscape of Egypt, books about them are surprisingly rare. This new and essential publication from a prominent Czech scholar answers the need...
Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 2: The Golden Age: 1881-1914

Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 2: The Golden Age: 1881-1914

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"A well written, informed, and at times exciting account" (Choice) of the field of Egyptology, part two of Thompson's bestselling monumental history, new in paperback The discovery of ancient Egypt...
The Cleopatras: Discover the powerful story of the seven queens of Ancient Egypt!

The Cleopatras: Discover the powerful story of the seven queens of

$59.99 AUD$47.99 AUD
'A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORECleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen.A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music,...
Abusir: The Necropolis of the Sons of the Sun

Abusir: The Necropolis of the Sons of the Sun

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At the center of the world-famous pyramid field of the Memphite necropolis lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named after the nearby village of Abusir. Long overshadowed by...
The Pharaoh's Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization

The Pharaoh's Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization

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For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and...
War and Trade with the Pharaohs: An Archaeological Study of Ancient Egypt's Foreign Relations

War and Trade with the Pharaohs: An Archaeological Study of Ancient Egypt's Foreign Relations

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The ancient Egyptians presented themselves as superior to all other people in the world; on temple walls, the pharaoh is shown smiting foreign enemies - people from Nubia, Libya and...
The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power

The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power

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With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea - both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea - and the Nile, this book offers a new and...
Pindar's Poetics of Immortality

Pindar's Poetics of Immortality

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Modern scholarship tends to focus on the social, political and economic information that can be gleaned from Pindar's treatment of the subject of his victory odes - the athlete who...
Tomb Treasures of the Late Middle Kingdom: The Archaeology of Female Burials

Tomb Treasures of the Late Middle Kingdom: The Archaeology of Female Burials

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During the late Middle Kingdom (about 1850-1700 B.C.E.), ancient Egyptian women of high standing were interred with lavish ornamentation and carefully gathered possessions. Buried near the pyramids of kings, women...
War and Trade with the Pharaohs: An Archaeological Study of Ancient Egypt's Foreign Relations

War and Trade with the Pharaohs: An Archaeological Study of Ancient Egypt's Foreign Relations

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The ancient Egyptians presented themselves as superior to all other people in the world; on temple walls, the pharaoh is shown smiting foreign enemies - people from Nubia, Libya and...
Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt

Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt

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'Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt' reflects the continuing public fascination with Egyptian coffins, mummies and burials. This new volume draws on 100 objects from the...
Women and War in Antiquity

Women and War in Antiquity

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Author: Jacqueline Fabre-SerrisFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 612g, 360 pagesPublished: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States, 2016The martial virtues-courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength-were central to male identity in the ancient...