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Archaeology hotspot Egypt : unearthing the past for armchair archaeologists / Julian Heath.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heath, Julian, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Archaeology hotspots.
- Archaeology hotspots
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology--Egypt--History.
- Archaeology.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Antiquities.
- Egypt--Antiquities.
- Egypt.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 pages).
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Archaeology Hotspots series offers reader-friendly and engaging narratives of the archaeology in particular countries. Written by archaeological experts with a general reader in mind, each book in the series focuses on what has been found and by whom, what the controversies and scandals have been, ongoing projects, and how it all fits into a broader view of the history of the country. In Archaeology Hotspot Egypt, scholar Julian Heath provides a chronological overview beginning with handaxes left by Homo erectus during the Lower Paleolithic and moving onwards through pharaonic Egypt to finish in the Greco-Roman period. He covers the most interesting finds--including Tutankhamen's tomb and the Rosetta Stone--and profiles major personalities, past and present. Current digs and recent insights on the past are also covered, such as the massive tomb of KV5 and how contemporary scientific techniques are unearthing new information about ancient Egyptian people and animals. The result is an illuminating look at the history, culture, national heritage, and current archaeological news of Egypt--a hotspot of archaeology.
- Contents:
- Introducing ancient Egypt
- From hand axes to mummy portraits: the archaeology of ancient Egypt
- Famous figures in egyptology
- Controversies and scandals in egyptology
- Harming Egypt's past: the antiquities market
- Contributions to knowledge of the past
- Current digs
- Epilogue: learning more about ancient Egypt.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and index.
- Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-42071-2
- 979-82-16-27934-1
- 0-8108-9498-X
- 0-7591-2402-7
- OCLC:
- 903930971
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