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  • Motherhood and Early Childhood in Ancient Egypt

    Culture, Religion, and Medicine

    by Dr. Amandine Marshall ...
    Translated by Colin Clement ...
    **"A masterpiece of seminal, meticulous, and groundbreaking scholarship."—**Midwest Book ReviewA richly nuanced analysis of how ancient Egyptian society regarded and dealt with pregnancy, mothers, birth, and childrenIn ancient Egypt, a woman’s primary role was that of mother, and as such she ensured her place within both her household and her community. And so, gods, doctor-magicians, as well as ... Read more

    $50.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Egypt

    An Introduction

    by Salima Ikram ...
    This book provides an introduction to one of the greatest civilizations of all time – ancient Egypt. Beginning with a geographical overview that explains the development of Egyptian belief systems as well as its subsequent political development, it examines methodology, the history of the discipline of Egyptology, religion, social organization, urban and rural life, and death. It also includes a ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • A History of World Egyptology

    Edited by Andrew Bednarski, Aidan Dodson, Salima Ikram ...
    A History of World Egyptology is a ground-breaking reference work that traces the study of ancient Egypt over the past 150 years. Global in purview, it enlarges our understanding of how and why people have looked, and continue to look, into humankind's distant past through the lens of the enduring allure of ancient Egypt. Written by an international team of scholars, the volume investigates how ... Read more

    $168.09 USD

  • The Deep History of Cattle Herding and Symbolism

    New Perspectives from Anthropology, Archaeology and Zooarchaeology in Sudan

    by Elena A.A. Garcea, Julia Budka, Salima Ikram, John Galaty, Shayla Monroe ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This brief provides a unique overview that weaves a thread across the deep history of the management and symbolism of wild aurochs and domestic cattle in Sudan, where these practices are attested for over 15,000 to 20,000 years. It highlights the central preoccupation with these bovids by societies of the region, from the time of the earliest funerary rituals involving wild aurochs in the late ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Royal Tombs of Ancient Egypt

    by Aidan Dodson ...
    The renowned Egyptologist presents a fascinating and comprehensive history of Ancient Egyptian pyramids, mausolea and other funerary monuments.The royal tombs of ancient Egypt include some of the most stupendous monuments of all time, containing some of the greatest treasures to survive from the ancient world. This book is a history of the burial places of the rulers of Egypt from the very dawn of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tausret

    Forgotten Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt

    Edited by Richard H. Wilkinson ...
    Tausret reveals the relatively unknown story of one of the only women to ever rule ancient Egypt as a king. This book brings together distinguished scholars whose research and excavations have recovered the history of this nearly forgotten female pharaoh. ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Amarna Sunrise

    Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy

    by Aidan Dodson ...
    Renown Egyptologist, Aidan Dodson, the author of Amarna Sunset, looks at how Akhenaten's experiment with monotheism beganThe latter part of the fifteenth century BC saw Egypt’s political power reach its zenith, with an empire that stretched from beyond the Euphrates in the north to much of what is now Sudan in the south. The wealth that flowed into Egypt allowed its kings to commission some of the ... Read more

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  • Poisoned Legacy

    The Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty

    by Aidan Dodson ...
    After the death of RamesesII, the Nineteenth Dynasty, soon fell into decline and familial conflict, culminating in a final civil war that ended with the accession of a new dynasty. Sethy I and Rameses II's promotion of a concept of a wider 'royal family' may have sown the seeds for the conflicts among their descendants. Aidan Dodson explores the mysteries of the origins of the usurper-king ... Read more

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  • The Unknown Tutankhamun

    by Marianne Eaton-Krauss ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Egyptology
    The reign of Tutankhamun was of major significance in the history of ancient Egypt. Following Howard Carter's discovery of the king's tomb in 1922, the story of the boy who became Pharaoh, died young and was buried in splendor at the height of Egyptian civilization captivated generations. But there exists a wide discrepancy between that saga and what scholarship has discovered in the last few ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Egypt and the Desert

    by John Coleman Darnell ...
    Series series Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context
    Deserts, the Red Land, bracket the narrow strip of alluvial Black Land that borders the Nile. Networks of desert roads ascended to the high desert from the Nile Valley, providing access to the mineral wealth and Red Sea ports of the Eastern Desert, the oasis depressions and trade networks of the Western Desert. A historical perspective from the Predynastic through the Roman Periods highlights how ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Kingship, Power, and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt

    From the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom

    by Lisa K. Sabbahy ...
    In this book, Lisa Sabbahy presents a history of ancient Egyptian kingship in the Old Kingdom and its re-formation in the early Middle Kingdom. Beginning with an account of Egypt's history before the Old Kingdom, she examines the basis of kingship and its legitimacy. The heart of her study is an exploration of the king's constant emphasis on his relationship to his divine parents, the sun god Ra ... Read more

    $93.49 USD

  • Current Research in Egyptology 14 (2013)

    by Sarah Musselwhite ...
    The fourteenth Current Research in Egyptology conference, held at the University of Cambridge in March 2013 brought together speakers and attendees from six continents and hosted more than 50 presentations covering multiple aspects of Egyptology and its related fields. The aim of the conference was to cross cultural and disciplinary boundaries. The papers presented in these proceedings reflect ... Read more

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