Product Description: A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. Originally published between 1902 and 1904 for the Egypt Exploration Fund, this three-volume set of reports documents the excavations that Petrie initiated at one of ancient Egypt's most sacred sites, the necropolis at Abydos...read more

Product Description: Abydos - on the western bank of the Nile, located 160 km north of Luxor - was one of the most important religious centers of ancient Egypt and main cult of the god Osiris. The cult of Osiris and his worship in mysterious rituals was expression of the human desire to be linked to the fate of the god: People wanted to participate in his death and especially share his resurrection...read more

Product Description: Abydos - on the western bank of the Nile, located 160 km north of Luxor - was one of the most important religious centers of ancient Egypt and main cult of the god Osiris. The cult of Osiris and his worship in mysterious rituals was expression of the human desire to be linked to the fate of the god: People wanted to participate in his death and especially share his resurrection...read more

Product Description: Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain...read more

Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (c. 484–425 BC). George Campbell Macaulay (1852–1915), was a English Classical scholar.

Product Description: CLASSICAL HISTORY Wonderful Account iof Egyptian LifeAn Account of EgyptBy HerodotusTranslated By G. C. MacaulayHERODOTUS was born at Halicarnassus, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, in the early part of the fifth century, B. C...read more

Product Description: Many Egyptian customs described by Herodotus are the reversal of a custom that existed in Greece. The explanation is that the ancient Greeks believed that the barbarians on the edges of the earth were the opposite of the civilized people in the middle of the terrestrial disk...read more

Product Description: HERODOTUS was born at Halicarnassus, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, in the early part of the fifth century, B. C. Of his life we know almost nothing, except that he spent much of it traveling, to collect the material for his writings, and that he finally settled down at Thurii, in southern Italy, where his great work was composed...read more

Product Description: This book draws on ancient Egyptian inscriptions in order to theorize the relationship between accounting and order. It focuses especially on the performative power of accounting in producing and sustaining order in society. It explores how accounting intervened in various domains of the ancient Egyptian world: the cosmos; life on earth (offerings to the gods; taxation; transportation; redistribution for palace dependants; mining activities; work organization; baking and brewing; private estates and the household; and private transactions in semi-barter exchange); and the cult of the dead...read more

Product Description: The Magnificence, Splendor and Glory that was the Advanced Civilization of Ancient Khemit/Egypt's Nile Valley Civilization. {God} Amen-{Ra}. Prophets, Holy-men, Healers, Priests, Priestesses, Metaphysicians, Miracle workers and magicians of Amen-Ra - Kings and Queens; Luxor/Karnak Temple, Grand Architecture - Megalithic Temples/Columns, Gigantic Hypo-style Halls, Massive Pyramids, Beni Hassan - Building materials, megaton Granite blocks, technical devices/machine type aparatus...read more

Product Description: The Magnificence, Splendor and Glory of the Advanced Civilization of Ancient Khemit {Egypt} comes to life in this book. their God called Amen and Prophets of Amen; Djehuti/Thoth - Ptah. Osiris/Ausar - Isis/auset - Horus/Heru - Lord Tera Neter, the Kings and Queens - Aha, Den, the Scorpion King - Narmer, Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure, Djoser, Imhotep...read more

Product Description: English summary: This collection of articles in honor of the French Egyptologist Pascal Vernus explores themes as diverse as the richness of Egyptian writing, lexicography, linguistics, and the ideology and culture of ancient Egypt...read more

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Product Description: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: In colonial-era Egypt, a new social category of "modern men" emerged, the efendiyya. Working as bureaucrats, teachers, journalists, free professionals, and public intellectuals, the efendiyya represented the new middle class elite...read more

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