Ancient Egypt and Nubia

in the Ashmolean Museum

The treasures from Ancient Egypt to be found inside the Ashmolean Museum are second only, outside Egypt, to those in the British Museum.From vases to weapons, and 'serpent game' boards to decorated ostrich eggs, this book showcases the richness and diversity of the Museum ...

Early christian books in Egypt

For the past hundred years, much has been written about the early editions of Christian texts discovered in the region that was once Roman Egypt. Scholars have cited these papyrus manuscripts - containing the Bible and other Christian works - as evidence of Christianity's presence in ...

Diccionario de signos y símbolos del Antiguo Egipto

Estructurado a modo de diccionario y en forma de fichas, el texto recopila tanto el nombre jeroglífico, como su transcripción, las fuentes, el nombre latino (cuando es el caso) de cada una de las voces relacionadas entre sí y una amplia y clara descripción, concluyendo ...

A manual of egyptian pottery. Vol. 1

Fayum A - Lower Egyptian Culture

These are the first two volumes in a four-book set covering all Egyptian pottery, ranging from the earliest (Fayum A) ceramics to modern pottery made in Egypt today, organized by historical periods. The manuals are quick identification guides as well as starting points for more ...

A manual of egyptian pottery. Vol. 2

Naqada III - Middle Kingdom

These are the first two volumes in a four-book set covering all Egyptian pottery, ranging from the earliest (Fayum A) ceramics to modern pottery made in Egypt today, organized by historical periods. The manuals are quick identification guides as well as starting points for more ...

La expedición a Egipto de los sabios franceses

investigaciones astronómicas, geodésicas y cartográficas (1798-1801)

Se cumple este año el doscientos aniversario de la aparición de las primeras memorias de la 'Descripción de Egipto', una obra monumental que dio cuenta de las investigaciones multidisciplinares de la Comisión de Sabios que acompañó al ejército de Napoleón, cuando invadió Egipto.

The monuments of Egypt

an A-Z companion to Ancient Egyptian architecture

Translated by Sabine H. Gardiner and Helen Strudwick; Edited by Nigel and Helen Strudwick. The ancient Egyptians' greatest monuments, ranging from Abu Simbel in the south to Cleopatra's palaces in Alexandria, were built over a period of three millennia, and yet a common architectural ...

Amarna Sunset

Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter- Reformation

Offers an account of the return to orthodoxy after Akhenaten's revolution. This study tells the story of the decline and fall of the Pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century BC. Beginning at the regime's high-point in his Year 12, it ...

Libro de los Muertos

El Libro de los Muertos, una de las obras capitales de la literatura religiosa de todos los tiempos, constituye un documento de primera magnitud para adentrarse en el conocimiento de la religiosidad del antiguo pueblo egipcio. La obra está formada por un conjunto de textos ...

The babylonian world

Edited by Gwendolyn Leick. The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon. Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, Babylon and its surrounding region was in fact ...

Sasanian jewry and its culture

a lexicon of Jewish and related seals

Introduction by Norman Golb. An impressive collection of Jewish signet rings and seals from the Sasanian Empire. Biography: Daniel M. Friedenberg is the president of John-Platt Enterprises. A recipient of the Heath Literary Award for Distinguished Numismatic Achievement, he is the former curator of coins ...

The Persian Empire

a corpus of sources from the Achaemenid period

Bringing together a wide variety of material in many different languages that exists from the substantial body of work left by this large empire, The Persian Empire presents annotated translations, together with introductions to the problems of using it in order to gain an understanding ...

Civilizations of ancient Iraq

In Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, Benjamin and Karen Foster tell the fascinating story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century. Accessible and concise, this is the most current and authoritative book on the ...

Neo-sumerian administrative tablets from the Yale Babylonian collection

part one

Table of contents: 9. Preface 11. Catalogue of texts 83. Classification of the texts according to their provenance 105. Chronological list 127. Catalogue of seal impressions 165. Concordance of museum numbers 193. List of texts already published 195. Texts nos.1-1539 511. Indices

Neo-sumerian administrative tablets from the Yale Babylonian collection

part two

Table of contents: 9. Catalogue of texts 75. Classification of the texts according to their provenance 97. Chronological list 119. Catalogue of seal impressions 151. Concordance of museum numbers 179. List of texts already published 181. Texts nos.1540-3024 497. Indices

Slavery in Babylonia

from Nabopolassar to Alexander the Great (626-331 BC)

Translated by Victoria A. Powell; Edited by Marvin A. Powell; Co-editor, David B. Weisberg. Presents an analysis of the economics of slavery and a picture of Neo- Babylonian society as a whole.

Termópilas

la resistencia de los 300

Ilustrado por Steve Noon. La batalla de tres días de duración, cuyo objetivo era el control del paso rocoso de las Termópilas, sigue perteneciendo al ámbito de la leyenda; una lucha heroica en la que Leónidas, el rey de los espartanos, y trescientos hombres especialmente ...

Children of achilles

the greeks in Asia Minor since the Days of Troy

Since the days of Troy historic lands of Asia Minor have been home to Greeks. They are steeped in a rich fusion of Greek and Turkish culture and the histories of both are irrevocably entwined, fatefully connected. "Children of Achilles" tells the epic and ultimately ...

Rituales Hititas

entre la magia y el culto

Entre los antiguos documentos hititas en escritura cuneiforme, descubiertos en las excavaciones de Asia Menor, tienen un peso específico los referidos a sus grandes celebraciones religiosas y sus rituales mágicos. El estudio de este tipo de textos nos permite conocer una parte relevante del trasfondo ...

Challenging Climate Change

Competition and Cooperation among Pastoralists and Agriculturalists in Northern Mesopotamia (c. 3000-1600 BC)

Throughout history, climate change has been an important driving force behind human behaviour. This archaeological study seeks to understand the complex interrelations between that behaviour and climatic fluctuations, focussing on how climate affected the social relations between neighbouring communities of occasionally differing nature. It is ...