Life in Ancient Egypt
Author | : Adolf Erman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Adolf Erman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lionel Casson |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2001-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801866012 |
Originally published in 1975 as The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt, this revised edition includes a new chapter as well as full documentation of the sources.
Author | : Rosalie David |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2002-10-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0141941383 |
The ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile - their life source - was a divine gift. Religion and magic permeated their civilization, and this book provides a unique insight into their religious beliefs and practices, from 5000 BC to the 4th century AD, when Egyptian Christianity replaced the earlier customs. Arranged chronologically, this book provides a fascinating introduction to the world of half-human/ half-animal gods and goddesses; death rituals, the afterlife and mummification; the cult of sacred animals, pyramids, magic and medicine. An appendix contains translations of Ancient Eygtian spells.
Author | : Bob M. Brier |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2008-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313353077 |
Explore the daily lives of ancient Egyptians in this exciting new update of one of the most successful Daily Life titles. Through reconstructions based on the hieroglyphic inscriptions, paintings from tombs, and scenes from temple walls, readers can examine social and material existence in one of the world's oldest civilizations. Narrative chapters explore the preparation of food and drink, religious ceremonies and cosmology, work and play, the arts, military domination, and intellectual accomplishments. With material garnered from recent excavations and research, including new content on construction, pyramid building, ship building, and metallurgy, this up-to-date volume caters to the ever-evolving needs of today's readers. A timeline, an extensive research center bibliography, and over 20 new photos make this a must-have reference source for modern students of ancient history. Explore the daily lives of ancient Egyptians in this exciting update of one of the most successful Daily Life titles. Through reconstructions based on the hieroglyphic inscriptions, paintings from tombs, and scenes from temple walls, readers can explore social and material existence in one of the world's oldest civilizations. Narrative chapters explore the preparation of food and drink, religious ceremonies and cosmology, work and play, the arts, military domination, and intellectual accomplishments. With information garnered from recent excavations and research, including new content on construction, pyramid building, ship building, and metallurgy, this up-to-date volume caters to the ever-evolving needs of today's readers. A timeline, an extensive research center bibliography, and over 20 new photos make this a must-have reference source for modern students of ancient history.
Author | : Kasia Szpakowska |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2007-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1405118563 |
Using the life of a young girl and her family as a model, this book recreates the daily life of the middle-class residents of the ancient town of Lahun during Egypt’s Middle Kingdom period. This perfect snapshot in time has been painstakingly recreated using recently published textual data and archaeological findings. Provides an illuminating and engaging re-construction of what daily life was like in ancient Egypt Describes the main issues of everyday life in the town - from education, work, and food preparation to religious rituals, healing techniques, marriages, births, and deaths Authentically recreated through the use of recently published textual data and archaeological findings directly from the settlement of Lahun and other sites Includes photographs and illustrations of actual artifacts from the settlement of Lahun
Author | : Toby Wilkinson |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0500294801 |
One hundred biographies of ancient Egyptians, both rulers and everyday citizens, reveal the true character and diversity of the ancient world’s greatest civilization. Spanning thousands of years of ancient Egyptian history, this volume offers a fresh perspective on an always fascinating civilization through the lives of the people who ruled, built the great monuments, staffed government offices, farmed, served in the temples, and fought to defend the country’s borders. This book includes stories of god-kings, from great rulers such as Khufu and Ramesses II to less famous monarchs such as Amenemhat I and Osorkon; powerful queens such as Tiye, the beautiful Nefertiti, Tutankhamun’s tragic child- bride Ankhesenamun, and the infamous Cleopatra; as well as ordinary women who are often overlooked in official accounts: Hemira, a humble priestess from a provincial Delta town, and Naunakht, whose will reveals the trials and tribulations of family life. Illustrated with works of art and scenes of daily life, Lives of the Ancient Egyptians offers remarkable insights into the history and culture of the Nile Valley and very personal glimpses of a vanished world.
Author | : Carolyn Graves-Brown |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2018-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786832895 |
This book is about the weird and wonderful lesser-known ‘spirit’ entities of ancient Egypt –daemons, the mysterious and often fantastical creatures of the Egyptian ‘Otherworld’ – and the closely related spirits of the dead, which together conjure the excitement of all things otherworldly. Daemons and spirits are generally defined in Egyptology as creatures not of this world, which do not have their own cult centre, and both groups are frequently listed together in protective spells. This volume explores the general nature of daemons and spirits in ancient Egypt and discusses a selection in more detail: it uses artefacts from Wales’s important collection of Egyptian objects at the Egypt Centre at Swansea University, in which are to be found a dwarf daemon with sticking out tongue; several guardian daemons of the Otherworld; creatures who are part snake and part feline; spirits of deceased humans; and a Greek satyr Silenus, companion to the wine god Dionysus.
Author | : Fergus Fleming |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : 9780760739303 |
Examines ancient Egyptian myths about the physical world and life after death and places them in their cultural context.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Baines |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801497865 |
Lectures given at a symposium held in 1987, sponsored by Fordham University.