Author: Jaromír Málek
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806124667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Describes life during ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom, discusses their economy, government, religion, and art, and indicates the reasons for the society's collapse.
In the Shadow of the Pyramids
Author: Jaromír Málek
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806124667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Describes life during ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom, discusses their economy, government, religion, and art, and indicates the reasons for the society's collapse.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806124667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Describes life during ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom, discusses their economy, government, religion, and art, and indicates the reasons for the society's collapse.
The Egyptians In The Shadow Of The Pyramids
Sticks, Stones, and Shadows
Author: Martin Isler
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133423
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
What do the pyramids of Egypt really represent? What could have driven so many to so great, and often so dangerous, an effort? Was the motivation religious or practical? Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and drawings, this book presents an original approach to the subject of pyramid building. It reveals the connection between devices that served both a practical need for survival and a spiritual belief in gods and goddesses. It examines Egyptian technologies and techniques from the origins of pyramid development to the step-by-step details of how the ground was leveled, how the site was oriented, and how the stone was raised and placed to meet at a distant point in the sky. Here the author also asks and answers questions virtually ignored for the last century. He discloses, for example, the ancient use of shadows, now denigrated to the ornamental back-yard sundial, but once an important tool for telling the height of an object, geographical directions, the seasons of the year, and the time of day. He also reinterprets the ancient "stretching of the cord" ceremony, which once was thought to have only religious significance but here is shown as the means of establishing the sides of a pyramid.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133423
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
What do the pyramids of Egypt really represent? What could have driven so many to so great, and often so dangerous, an effort? Was the motivation religious or practical? Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and drawings, this book presents an original approach to the subject of pyramid building. It reveals the connection between devices that served both a practical need for survival and a spiritual belief in gods and goddesses. It examines Egyptian technologies and techniques from the origins of pyramid development to the step-by-step details of how the ground was leveled, how the site was oriented, and how the stone was raised and placed to meet at a distant point in the sky. Here the author also asks and answers questions virtually ignored for the last century. He discloses, for example, the ancient use of shadows, now denigrated to the ornamental back-yard sundial, but once an important tool for telling the height of an object, geographical directions, the seasons of the year, and the time of day. He also reinterprets the ancient "stretching of the cord" ceremony, which once was thought to have only religious significance but here is shown as the means of establishing the sides of a pyramid.
When the Pyramids Were Built
Author: Dorothea Arnold
Publisher: Rizzoli International
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Masterworks from a golden era of ancient Egyptian culture are gathered in this volume, which accompanies a landmark exhibition organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, running from September 16, 1999 through January 9, 2000. 130 color illustrations.
Publisher: Rizzoli International
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Masterworks from a golden era of ancient Egyptian culture are gathered in this volume, which accompanies a landmark exhibition organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, running from September 16, 1999 through January 9, 2000. 130 color illustrations.
The Egyptians
In Shadow of Pyramid
Author: Jaromír Málek
Publisher: Little Brown GBR
ISBN: 9780316904452
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher: Little Brown GBR
ISBN: 9780316904452
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Beneath the Pyramids
Author: Andrew Collins
Publisher: ARE Press
ISBN: 0876045719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Exploring Egypt's lost underworld for the first time"--Cover
Publisher: ARE Press
ISBN: 0876045719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Exploring Egypt's lost underworld for the first time"--Cover
Beneath the Pyramid
Author: Christian Jacq
Publisher: Judge of Egypt Trilogy
ISBN: 9780671017989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The first in a new trilogy by Christian Jacq, BENEATH THE PYRAMID is a gripping novel of suspense which takes place during the reign of Ramses the Great. A young, intelligent, incorruptible novice judge, Pazair, is called to Memphis to investigate the mysterious deaths of five guards standing watch over the sphinx at Giza. His inquiries unearth a plot to overthrow Ramses, and with the help of Souti, a former scribe, and the beautiful Nefertet, a young doctor, he sets out to discover the truth.
Publisher: Judge of Egypt Trilogy
ISBN: 9780671017989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The first in a new trilogy by Christian Jacq, BENEATH THE PYRAMID is a gripping novel of suspense which takes place during the reign of Ramses the Great. A young, intelligent, incorruptible novice judge, Pazair, is called to Memphis to investigate the mysterious deaths of five guards standing watch over the sphinx at Giza. His inquiries unearth a plot to overthrow Ramses, and with the help of Souti, a former scribe, and the beautiful Nefertet, a young doctor, he sets out to discover the truth.
Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870999079
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
"The Egyptian Old Kingdom (c. 2650-2150 BC) was an era of extraordinary artistic achievement-the period that gave us the Sphinx and the pyramids as well as a rich legacy of private tombs, wall paintings, reliefs, statuary, jewelry, and decorative arts. This book, the companion volume to a major traveling exhibition organized by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre in Paris, showcases the most impressive assemblage of Egyptian art and artifacts since the Tutankhamun exhibition of the late 1970s. Scholarly essays and 650 illustrations bring to life a remarkable panoply of Old Kingdom objects-temple and tomb reliefs, striking gold jewelry, handsome stone vessels, monumental statues, stelae, and exquisite statuettes. Together, text and images create a stunning tribute to the world of the Pharaohs"--Publisher's description.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870999079
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
"The Egyptian Old Kingdom (c. 2650-2150 BC) was an era of extraordinary artistic achievement-the period that gave us the Sphinx and the pyramids as well as a rich legacy of private tombs, wall paintings, reliefs, statuary, jewelry, and decorative arts. This book, the companion volume to a major traveling exhibition organized by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre in Paris, showcases the most impressive assemblage of Egyptian art and artifacts since the Tutankhamun exhibition of the late 1970s. Scholarly essays and 650 illustrations bring to life a remarkable panoply of Old Kingdom objects-temple and tomb reliefs, striking gold jewelry, handsome stone vessels, monumental statues, stelae, and exquisite statuettes. Together, text and images create a stunning tribute to the world of the Pharaohs"--Publisher's description.
The Great Goddesses of Egypt
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.
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.