Dancing for Hathor

Women in Ancient Egypt

The fragmentary evidence allows us only tantalising glimpses of the sophisticated and complex society of the ancient Egyptians, but the Greek historian Herodotus believed that the Egyptians had 'reversed the ordinary practices of mankind' in treating their women better than any of the other civilizations ...

The zodiac of Paris

how an improbable controversy over an Ancient Egyptian artifact provoked a modern debate between religion and science

The Dendera zodiac - an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets - was first discovered by the French during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, and quickly provoked a controversy between scientists and theologians. Brought to Paris in 1821 and ultimately ...

Giza plateau mapping project seasons 2006-2007 preliminary report

GOP 3 offers preliminary excavation results from the 2006-2007 season at the Heit el-Ghurab (HeG) site of Giza and from clearing and mapping at the Khentkawes Town site. The volume includes the results of a ground-penetrating radar study by Glen Dash in the areas around ...

A History of Ancient Egypt

Outlining the major political and cultural events, A History of Ancient Egypt is an authoritative and accessible introduction to this fascinating ancient culture. * An accessible chronological narrative that draws on a range of historical sources * Offers an up-to-date survey of ancient Egypt's history from ...

City of the Ram-Man

the story of Ancient Mendes

In this richly illustrated book, renowned archaeologist 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'. Excavation by ...

The fortifications of Ancient Egypt 3000-1780 B.C.

Il. Brian Delf. During the Old and Middle Kingdoms, Ancient Egypt led the world in the construction of fortifications. The oldest was discovered on Elephantine Island and dates to c.2900 BC. This book investigates over 2,000 years of Egyptian fortification, including both fortified ...

Egipto visto desde el cielo

Textos de Christian Jacq ; Fotografías de Philip Plisson. Gran formato con ilustraciones. Entre el Mediterráneo, al norte, que baña las costas del Delta y el inmenso Lago Nasser, al sur, bajo el cual yace la desaparecida Nubia, un río como no hay otro igual, el ...

Giza plateau mapping project season 2008 preliminary report

The volume covers the 2008 season of clearing and mapping at the Khentkawes Town (KKT) on the Giza Plateau, and survey, mapping, and excavation of burials in the area. The work at the KKT site encompasses excavations in both the Khentkawes complex and the Menkaure ...

El gran libro de la mitología egipcia

Para Heródoto, los egipcios eran «los más religiosos de los hombres». La religión era el componente esencial de la civilización faraónica y las divinidades de su panteón, innumerables. Así lo reflejan las paredes de las tumbas y los monumentos que han llegado hasta el presente ...

Historia del Antiguo Egipto

Esta "Historia del Antiguo Egipto", publicada originalmente por Oxford, es el clásico actual más importante sobre este apasionante tema y la primera obra que ofrece una visión completa de la civilización egipcia, desde los primeros momentos de la Edad de Piedra hasta su incorporación al ...

Babylon of Egypt

the archaeology of Old Cairo and the origins of the city

This title focuses on an archaeological investigation into the ancient nucleus of medieval and modern Cairo. This book presents a history of Old Cairo based on new archaeological evidence gathered between 2000 and 2006 during a major project to lower the groundwater level affecting the ...

Alexandria and the North-Western Delta

joint Conference proceedings of 'Alexandria: city and Harbour (Oxford 2004) and 'The trade and topography of Egypt's North-West Delta (Berlin 2006)

Eds. Damian Robinson, Andrew Wilson. This monograph contains the joint proceedings of the first two conferences organised by the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology. It contains 23 papers that cover land-based and underwater excavation and survey in the area of the North-Western Nile Delta, principally ...

Isis on the Nile

egyptians gods in hellenistic and roman Egypt: proceedings of the IVth International Conference of Isis Studies, Liège, november 27-29 2008

Eds. Laurent Bricault, Miguel John Versluys. The diffusion of the cults of Isis is recently again intensively studied. Research on this fascinating phenomenon has traditionally been characterised by its focus on L'Égypte hors d'Égypte, while developments in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt itself were ...

Prosopographia Asceticarum Aegyptiarum

Corpues prosopográfico recopilado a través de fuentes literarias, papirológicas y epigráficas , que recoge los datos biográficos de las ascetas egipcias atestiguadas durante el periodo cronológico de la Antigüeddad Tardía (siglos IV-VIII d.D.), ordenados de acuerdo con una tipología claramente establecida.

Poetry and culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt

a dark side to perfection

The Middle Kingdom (c.1940-1640 BC) was a golden age of Ancient Egyptian writing. This pioneering book is the first comprehensive study of this literary legacy. The status of literature is controversial in many ancient civilizations, and Middle Kingdom poems have often been regarded as ...

Les forteresses égyptiennes

du prédynastique au Nouvel Empire

Intrigué et fasciné par les révélations et les reconstitutions de la forteresse de Bouhen proposées par Walter B. Emery, Franck Monnier s#est passionné durant de nombreuses années pour la fortification égyptienne dont la richesse architecturale et l#originalité semblent encore très méconnues dans la ...

The ancient indus

urbanism, economy, and society

This early civilisation was erased from human memory until 1924, when it was rediscovered. Our understanding of the Indus has been partially advanced by textual sources from Mesopotamia that contain references to Meluhha, a land identified by cuneiform specialists as the Indus, with which the ...

La historia empieza en Sumer

39 primeros testimonios de la historia escrita

Prólogo de Federico Lara Peinado; Traducción de Jaime Elías Cornet y Jorge Braga Riera. La historia empieza en Sumer es un clásico de la historiografía moderna, un libro seminal que ocupa un lugar en pie de igualdad junto a otras obras que aúnan de forma ...

The fortifications of Ancient Israel and Judah 1200-586 BC

Illustrated by Adam Hook. This book provides a detailed study of the fortifications of the founders of ancient Israel from the time of their first settlement in the Middle East, through the periods of the united and divided kingdoms, until the sack of Jerusalem in ...

The Emperor Elagabalus

fact or fiction

The third-century adolescent Roman emperor miscalled Elagabalus or Heliogabalus was made into myth shortly after his murder. For 1800 years since, scandalous stories relate his alleged depravity, debauchery and bloodthirsty fanaticism as High Priest of a Syrian Sun God. From these, one cannot discern anything ...