Ancient Egypt

Author: Pamela Bradley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521776561
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 717

Book Description
For senior secondary students studying Ancient History. Particularly suitable for the new NSW HSC Ancient History syllabus, with extensive coverage of the personalities listed for the new Core Study. Text divided into four parts which cover the political, social, economic and religious developments and changes that occurred from the early Dynastic Period to the death of Ramessess II. Special focus on: The achievement of particular pharaohs, including: Hatshepsut, Akkhenaten, Ramessess II; The impact of other significant individuals and groups; social life, funerary beliefs and practices during the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms. Provides a vast range of primary and secondary source material, without loosing sight of the historical narrative.

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

Author: Kasia Szpakowska
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405118563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
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

The Cambridge History of Egypt

Author: Carl F. Petry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521068857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676

Book Description
Egypt.

Ancient Egypt

Author: John Malam
Publisher: M. Evans
ISBN: 9780237538620
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 47

Book Description
Archaeological discoveries have shed light on the lives and beliefs of ordinary ancient Egyptians. Using photographs, illustrations, archaeology information boxes, and "How Do We Know?" boxes--which provide evidence for the information given--"Ancient Egypt" re-creates daily life in remarkable and well-founded detail.

The Gift of the Nile

Author: Phiroze Vasunia
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520228200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
What the ancient Greeks thought and believed about Egypt and what this tells us about them.

Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt

Author: Leire Olabarria
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108584918
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
In this interdisciplinary study, Leire Olabarria examines ancient Egyptian society through the notion of kinship. Drawing on methods from archaeology and sociocultural anthropology, she provides an emic characterisation of ancient kinship that relies on performative aspects of social interaction. Olabarria uses memorial stelae of the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom (ca.2150–1650 BCE) as her primary evidence. Contextualising these monuments within their social and physical landscapes, she proposes a dynamic way to explore kin groups through sources that have been considered static. The volume offers three case studies of kin groups at the beginning, peak, and decline of their developmental cycles respectively. They demonstrate how ancient Egyptian evidence can be used for cross-cultural comparison of key anthropological topics, such as group formation, patronage, and rites of passage.

Unwrapping the Pharaohs

Author: John F. Ashton
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780890514689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Mummies, pyramids, and pharaohs! The culture and civilization of the ancient Egyptians have fascinated people for centuries and some have direct correlation to biblical events.Authors David Down and John Ashton present a groundbreaking new chronology in Unwrapping the Pharaohs that shows how Egyptian Archaeology supports the biblical timeline.Go back in time as famous Egyptians such as the boy-king Tutankhamen, and the beautiful Cleopatra are brought to life in this captivating new look at Egyptian history from a biblical worldview.

Pompeii

Author: Mary Beard
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847650643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; or the massive death count, maybe less than ten per cent of the population. An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain's favourite classicist.

I Found Out I'm Dying

Author: Sporty King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965409841
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Discusses life in ancient Egypt, with an overview and timeline of the years between 3050 and 30 B.C., and looks at agriculture, belief systems, art, health, the role of women and children, rulers, war, and other aspects of life along the Nile.

An Egyptian Book of Shadows

Author: Jocelyn Almond
Publisher: HarperThorsons
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
This unique book presents eight seasonal rites for performance at the solstices, equinoxes and cross-quarter days, for devotees of the ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses.