This book is an excellent addition to the "Complete Tutankhamun", "Complete Pyramid", and "Complete Valley of the Kings" series. As a student of Egyptology, with a special interest in the religious aspects of the society, I found this book to be an excellent addition to my reference library. It is filled with color photographs, charts and information in a clear easy to follow layout. This book features not only information on the architectural lay out of individual temples and sanctuaries, it also provides a valuable overview to evolution of the temple in Egypt...
Written by some of the world’s leading experts, Egyptian Archaeology employs a uniquely archaeological approach to explore ancient Egypt. Drawing on original research and excavations to both synthesize and challenge existing scholarship, this book dispels traditional notions of Egyptian culture as monolithic. Each author explicates current understandings of the cultural and historical processes of ancient Egypt, illustrating that practical research is a vital and fascinating component of any theory-based discussion about the ancient world.
Added by: englishcology | Karma: 4552.52 | Fiction literature | 10 April 2010
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This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruption, sexual repression, religious extremism, and modern hopes of Egypt today.
Every organism ceases to exist without water; as for nations, even in the antiquewritings of Homer, the river and land of Egypt were notionally one and the same being. Linguistically they were distinguished by gender alone: used in the masculine, aigyp tos signified the waters whose annual flooding ensured the fertility of an earth, denoted by aigyptos in the feminine. Deified by Pharaohs, revered by the Jewish and Christian writers who claimed Paradise as its source, so awesome was the Nile that Arabic texts held that when al-nil al-mabruk went up, all other rivers on earth would fall.
Egypt lies at a crossroads between Africa, Asia, and Europe and is the largest country in the Middle East. In terms of population, it ranks 15th in the world. Most of its 79 million residents live near the Nile River, which is the country's most prominent geographical feature and the world's longest river. Egypt's other primary geographical feature, its deserts, also played a significant role in the development of its civilization, which dates from 3000 BCE.
