Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Mistress of Egypt PDF full book. Access full book title Mistress of Egypt by Walt Engle. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Walt Engle Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1847284094 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
Born to a cruel society, she became entangled in a passionate affair. Then she found love and meaning to her life. Herodotus, offering proof, said she did not sail to Troy.
Author: Walt Engle Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1847284094 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
Born to a cruel society, she became entangled in a passionate affair. Then she found love and meaning to her life. Herodotus, offering proof, said she did not sail to Troy.
Author: Anne K. Capel Publisher: Hudson Hills ISBN: 9781555951290 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
The first-of-its-kind exhibit cataloged here focuses on the women of Egypt from all levels of society in works compiled strictly from American collections by American curators. Because the quantity of written records is limited (though enormous in comparison to most early societies), there is still much guesswork involved in determining the place women held in Egyptian society. It is clear that, unlike most ancient and not-so-ancient societies, Egypt conferred on women the legal right to own property and to barter their own goods, which means a larger record for current study. The essays here are both erudite and fascinating to read; the illustrations are clear and well presented in conjunction with the text. 117 colour & 112 b/w illustrations
Author: Kate Pullinger Publisher: Profile Books ISBN: 1847652425 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
Lady Duff Gordon is the toast of Victorian London. But when her debilitating tuberculosis means exile, she and her devoted lady's maid, Sally, set sail for Egypt. It is Sally who describes, with a mixture of wonder and trepidation, the odd ménage marshalled by the resourceful Omar, which travels down the Nile to a new life in Luxor. As Lady Duff Gordon undoes her stays and takes to native dress, throwing herself into weekly salons; language lessons; excursions to the tombs; Sally too adapts to a new world, affording her heady and heartfelt freedoms never known before. But freedom is a luxury that a maid can ill-afford, and when Sally grasps more than her status entitles her to, she is brutally reminded that she is mistress of nothing.
Author: Barbara S. Lesko Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806132020 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 338
Book Description
The book presents in depth histories of the cults of seven major goddesses and many excerpts from their literature--hymns, prayers, and magical spells as well as descriptions of ritual, temples and clergy.
Author: Anthony J. Barbieri-Low Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295748907 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348
Book Description
Although they existed more than a millennium apart, the great civilizations of New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1548–1086 BCE) and Han dynasty China (206 BCE–220 CE) shared intriguing similarities. Both were centered around major, flood-prone rivers—the Nile and the Yellow River—and established complex hydraulic systems to manage their power. Both spread their territories across vast empires that were controlled through warfare and diplomacy and underwent periods of radical reform led by charismatic rulers—the “heretic king” Akhenaten and the vilified reformer Wang Mang. Universal justice was dispensed through courts, and each empire was administered by bureaucracies staffed by highly trained scribes who held special status. Egypt and China each developed elaborate conceptions of an afterlife world and created games of fate that facilitated access to these realms. This groundbreaking volume offers an innovative comparison of these two civilizations. Through a combination of textual, art historical, and archaeological analyses, Ancient Egypt and Early China reveals shared structural traits of each civilization as well as distinctive features.
Author: Edith Fiore Publisher: First Edition Design Pub. ISBN: 1622874056 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
Hatshepsut overcame all obstacles and ruled as a pharaoh for more than twenty-one years, ushering in Ancient Egypt’s golden age. She had defied thousands of years of the tradition that only men could be kings. At the age of twelve, when she married her half-brother, Thutmose, she became queen. After his death, the Oracle in the great Temple of Amun in Karnak, proclaimed that she was Pharaoh Maatkare and Mistress of the Two Lands. This historical novel, tells the story of her life and her many accomplishments: the building of her glorious and beautiful mortuary temple, Djeser-djeseru, the twelve-hundred-mile trip to the fabled land of Punt, the erection of two magnificent golden one-hundred-foot tall obelisks, her secret and forbidden life-long love affair with a remarkable commoner, Senenmut, and her relationship with a multi-talented initiated priestess, a seer-prophet, whose life paralleled and eventually interwove with that of Hatshepsut. The reader will learn about the process of mummification, the history and construction of the Great Pyramid of Khufu and those of his descendents’, the Sphinx, and the four solar boats at what is now Giza, past lives, astral projection or out-of-body travel, herbal medicine and much more in this story of murders, a rape, intrigues, an assassination attempt, a ruthless master hypnotist, who was a physician-priest, Princess Neferure, Hatshepsut’s daughter,and many other fascinating characters. Non-top drama enthralls the reader from the very first page to the last one.
Author: Sally-Ann Ashton Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317868730 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
The last of the Ptolemaic monarchs who ruled Egypt for 300 years, Cleopatra is the most famous of the Ptolemaic queens. But what of her predecessors? The Last Queens of Egypt examines the roles played by the Ptolemaic royal women and explores their part in religion, politics and court intrigue. Explaining their propensity for incest, murder and power, Sally Ann Ashton shows the extent of the power they enjoyed, the price they paid, and how they shaped Cleopatra's reign.
Author: Walt Engle
Author: Walt Engle
Author: Anne K. Capel
Author: Kate Pullinger
Author: Barbara S. Lesko
Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Author: Ann Hicks
Author: Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
Author: Edith Fiore
Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Author: Sally-Ann Ashton