Author: Howard Carter Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472577647 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 337
Book Description
The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun [Tut.ankh.Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter and the fifth Earl of Carnarvon was the greatest archaeological find the world had ever seen. Despite its plundering by thieves in antiquity, the burial of the king lay intact with its nest of coffins and funerary shrines, surrounded by a mass of burial equipment arranged in three peripheral chambers. Following on from the first volume's account of the search for and initial discovery of the team, in the second volume Howard Carter recounts the discovery of the king's burial chamber: the breakthrough to the four protective shrines, the revelation of the quartz-sandstone sarcophagus, the king's three coffins (his own of pure gold) and the bejewelled mummy of the Pharaoh himself. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, the book includes over 150 photographs of the treasures that lay within the great burial chamber of Tutankhamun.
Author: Gail Simone Publisher: Dark Horse Comics ISBN: 1616556390 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 146
Book Description
After Rise of the Tomb Raider, Lara Croft's adventure continues in the comic Dark Horse series by Eisner Award winning writer Mariko Tamaki and others.
Author: Mariko Tamaki Publisher: Dark Horse Comics ISBN: 1506714242 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 472
Book Description
Follow Lara's search across the world in this dynamic story that bridges the gap between Crystal Dynamics' Rise of the Tomb Raider and Shadow of the Tomb Raider! After surviving the events of the city of Kitezh and the Deathless Prophet, Lara Croft finds herself attending an archaeology conference in America. When a man in need of help turns up dead at Lara's hotel, she becomes entwined in the search for a fabled mushroom that grants the gift of immortality. Desperate for answers, Lara hunts down Trinity at all costs, making sacrifices, and risking her life along the way. The second and final omnibus volume in this series, this collection is jam-packed with 472 pages of material. This omnibus collects issues #1-#12 of Dark Horse's 2016 Tomb Raider Volume 2 series, as well as the most recent Tomb Raider: Survivor's Crusade and Tomb Raider: Inferno complete story arcs.
Author: Nicholas Thomas Wright Publisher: Fortress Press ISBN: 9780800626792 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 854
Book Description
Explores ancient beliefs about life after death, highlighting the fact that the early Christians' belief about the afterlife belonged firmly on the Jewish spectrum, while introducing several new mutations and sharper definitions, forcing readers to view the Easter narratives not simply as rationalizations, but as accounts of two actual events: the empty tomb of Jesus and his "appearances." Simultaneous. Hardcover no longer available.
Author: Serge Margel Publisher: ISBN: 9781517906412 Category : Cosmology, Ancient Languages : en Pages : 146
Book Description
The Tomb of the Artisan God provides a radical rereading of Timaeus, Plato’s metaphysical text on time, eternity, and the relationship between soul and body. First published in French in 1995, the original edition of Serge Margel’s book included an extensive introductory essay by Jacques Derrida, who drew on Margel’s insights in developing his own concepts of time, the promise, the world, and khōra. Now available in English with a new preface by Margel, this engagement with Platonic thought proceeds from two questions that span the history of philosophy: What is time? What is the body?
Author: Giuseppe Fornari Publisher: MSU Press ISBN: 1628953942 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 468
Book Description
This magisterial reflection on the history and destiny of the West compares Greco-Roman civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition in order to understand what both unites and divides them. Mediation, understood as a collective, symbolic experience, gives society unity and meaning, putting human beings in contact with a universal object known as the world or reality. But unity has a price: the very force that enables peaceful coexistence also makes us prone to conflict. As a result, in order to find a common point of convergence—of at-one-ment—someone must be sacrificed. Sacrifice, then, is the historical pillar of mediation. It was endorsed in a cosmic-religious sense in antiquity and rejected for ethical reasons in modernity, where the Judeo-Christian tradition plays an intermediate role in condemning sacrificial violence as such, while accepting sacrifice as a voluntary act offered to save other human beings. Today, as we face the collapse of all shared mediations, this intermediating solution offers a way out of our moral and cultural plight.
Author: E. A. Wallis Budge Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486139980 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 514
Book Description
Thorough coverage of evolution of cults, rites and gods; the cult of Osiris; the Book of the Dead and its rites; the sacred animals and birds; Heaven and Hell; and more.
Author: Jay Kristoff Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1466885041 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 460
Book Description
The second thrilling installment of the award-winning Nevernight Chronicle, from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff. In a land where three suns almost never set, a ruthless assassin continues her quest for vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family. Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she’s far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she’s no closer to ending the men who destroyed her familia; in fact, she’s told directly that Consul Scaeva is off limits. But after a deadly confrontation with an old enemy, Mia's suspicions about the Red Church’s true motives begin to grow. When it’s announced that Scaeva will be making a rare public appearance at the conclusion of the grand games in Godsgrave, Mia defies the Church and sells herself to a gladiatorial collegium for a chance to finally end him. Upon the sands of the arena, Mia finds new allies, bitter rivals, and more questions about her strange affinity for the shadows. But as conspiracies unfold within the collegium walls, and the body count rises, Mia will be forced to choose between love and revenge, and uncover a secret that could change the very face of her world.
Author: Robert Glyndwr Williams
Author: Robert Glyndwr Williams
Author: Howard Carter
Author: Gail Simone
Author: Mariko Tamaki
Author: Nicholas Thomas Wright
Author: Serge Margel
Author: Giuseppe Fornari
Author: E. A. Wallis Budge
Author: Jay Kristoff