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Ancient Egypt.
GIC Collection at Penn Libraries
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silverman, David P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Egyptology.
- Local Subjects:
- Egyptology.
- Summary:
- Ancient Egypt is an authoritative and vividly written guide to the main themes of the ancient Egyptian world, from the lives of the pharaohs and the building of the pyramids to the fascinating language of hieroglyphs. It covers all the major aspects of this powerful civilization - historical, religious, artistic, scientific and mythological. Superbly illustrated, Ancient Egypt brings the world of the pharaohs to life as never before.
- Contents:
- Part I The Egyptian World 8
- Chapter 1 The Gift of the Nile / Dr Fekri Hassan 10
- The River in the Sand 10
- Map: The Nile Delta in ancient times 11
- The Nurturing Waters 12
- Map: The Nile flood 13
- The Great Highway 16
- Map: Egypt and the Nile 17
- A Landscape of the Mind 18
- Chapter 2 Three Kingdoms and Thirty-Four Dynasties / Dr William J. Murnane 20
- "Most Ancient Egypt" 20
- The First Nation-State 22
- The Zenith of the Unitary State 24
- The First Challenge to Unity 26
- Map: The 42 provinces of ancient Egypt 27
- The Glorious Twelfth Dynasty 28
- A Second Unravelling 30
- From Recovery to Empire 32
- Disunity and Foreign Rule 36
- A Conquered Kingdom 38
- Chapter 3 Egypt and the World Beyond / Dr Donald B. Redford 40
- The Fear of Horus in the South 40
- Egypt and Asia 42
- Egypt and the Mediterranean 44
- Map: Invasions of the "Peoples of the Sea" and "Labu" 45
- Map: The Ptolemaic empire 46
- International Trade and Travel 48
- Map: Egypt and its trade network 49
- The Grip of Empire 50
- Map: The Egyptian empire in the New Kingdom 50
- The Cosmopolitan Realm 52
- The Minelands of the Sovereign 54
- Egypt's Legacy 55
- Chapter 4 The Wealth of the Land / Dr Fekri Hassan 58
- The First Farmers 58
- Living off the Land 60
- Hunting, Fishing, Fowling and Foraging 62
- Egypt's Mineral Wealth 64
- Map: Egypt's mineral resources 65
- Managing the Economy 66
- Chapter 5 The Settled World / Dr Ian Shaw 68
- The Rise of Urban Life 68
- Map: Hierakonpolis ca. 4000 3100BCE 69
- Towns and Houses 70
- Capital Cities 74
- Map: Capital cities of ancient Egypt 74
- Royal Palaces 76
- Fortresses 78
- Chapter 6 Women in Egypt / Dr Gay Robins 80
- Gender and Society 80
- Roles and Images 82
- The Family 84
- Women and Religion 86
- Royal Women 88
- Chapter 7 The Boundaries of Knowledge / Dr Christopher Eyre 90
- The Teaching of Knowledge 90
- The Natural World 92
- Mathematics 94
- Medicine 96
- Technology 98
- Magic 100
- The Arts 102
- Part II Belief and Ritual 104
- Chapter 8 The Lord of the Two Lands / Dr David P. Silverman 106
- The Origins of Kingship 106
- The God-King on Earth 108
- The Pharaoh after Death 110
- Human or Divine? 112
- Chapter 9 The Celestial Realm / Dr James P. Allen 114
- The Egyptian Cosmos 114
- The Heavenly Domain 116
- The Solar Cycle 118
- "Before Two Things" 120
- The One and the Many 122
- The Word of God 124
- Amun the Unknowable 126
- The Heresy of Akhenaten 128
- The Human Sphere 130
- Chapter 10 The Cult of the Dead / Dr Robert K. Ritner 132
- Attitudes to Death 132
- The Theology of Death: Isis and Osiris 134
- Funerary Literature 136
- Mummification 138
- The Funerary Cult 140
- Communication with the Dead 142
- Ghosts and Exorcism 144
- The Mummy's Curse 146
- Chapter 11 The Life of Ritual / Dr Emily Teeter 148
- Securing the Cosmic Order 148
- The Daily Offering 150
- Ancestor Worship 152
- Ritual and History 154
- Ritual Gestures 156
- Sacred Boats 158
- Divine Births and Marriages 160
- Piety and Priesthood 162
- Ritual Games 164
- Part III Art, Architecture and Language 166
- Chapter 12 The Pyramids / Dr Zahi Hawass 168
- Monuments to an Age 168
- Map: Main pyramid sites of Egypt 169
- Ramps to the Sky: the Pyramid and its Complex 170
- Building the Pyramids 174
- The Earliest Pyramids 178
- Giza: the Great Pyramid 180
- Artist's impression: Inside the Great Pyramid 182
- Giza: the Pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure 184
- The Great Sphinx 186
- Pyramids of the "Forgotten Pharaohs" 188
- Middle Kingdom Pyramids 190
- Chapter 13 Tombs and Temples / Dr Peter Der Manuelian 192
- The Dwelling Places of the Dead 192
- Royal Tombs 194
- Map: Royal burial sites of Western Thebes 195
- Private Tombs 197
- Cities of the Dead 200
- The Temple 202
- Houses of the Gods 206
- Artist's impression: The temple of Karnak 208
- Royal Mortuary Temples 210
- Chapter 14 Egyptian Art / Dr Rita Freed 212
- The Potent Image 212
- Predynastic and Early Dynastic Art 214
- Classical Egypt: the Old Kingdom 216
- Regional Styles and Art of the Imperial Age 218
- Art of the Late Period 222
- Art of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods 224
- The Art of Adornment 226
- Chapter 15 Signs, Symbols and Language / Dr David P. Silverman 230
- Discovering the Key 230
- Scripts and Scribes 232
- Words and Hieroglyphs 234
- The Evolution of the Language 236
- The Signs Speak 238
- Symbol and Image 240.
- ISBN:
- 9780195219524
- 019521952X
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