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Book Synopsis Egypt: Ancient Sites and Modern Scenes by : Gaston Maspero
Download or read book Egypt: Ancient Sites and Modern Scenes written by Gaston Maspero and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume Professor Maspero gives us a collection of charming word pictures of Egypt, in which history and archeology are made to blend with scenes of today, and the past is linked to the present. No living Egyptologist has such a command of facts as Professor Maspero, and no other writer on the land of the Pharaohs has such brilliant literary gifts and so picturesque a style. The book deals with the aspect of Egypt as it has presented itself to the author on his yearly voyages up and down the Nile to inspect the monuments in his official capacity as director of the Service des Antiquites.
Book Synopsis Egypt: Ancient Sites and Modern Scenes by : Gaston Maspero
Download or read book Egypt: Ancient Sites and Modern Scenes written by Gaston Maspero and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outlook written by Alfred Emanuel Smith and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Millionaire and the Mummies by : John M. Adams
Download or read book The Millionaire and the Mummies written by John M. Adams and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Gilded Age American lawyer & tycoon, exploring his exploits from New York City’s government to the ancient tombs in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt, the Valley of the Kings, 1905: An American robber baron peers through the hole he has cut in an ancient tomb wall and discovers the richest trove of golden treasure ever seen in Egypt. At the start of the twentieth century, Theodore Davis was the most famous archaeologist in the world. His career turned tomb-robbing and treasure-hunting into a science. Using six of Davis’s most important discoveries—from the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut’s sarcophagus to the exquisite shabti statuettes looted from the Egyptian Museum not too long ago—as a lens around which to focus his American rags-to-riches tale, author John M. Adams chronicles the rise of a poor country preacher’s son. Through corruption and fraud, Davis amassed tremendous wealth in Gilded Age New York and then atoned for his ruthless career by inventing new standards for systematic excavation in the field of archaeology. He found a record eighteen tombs in the Valley and, breaking with custom, gave all the spoils of his discoveries to museums. A confederate of Boss Tweed, friend of Teddy Roosevelt, and rival of J. P. Morgan, the colorful “American Lord Carnarvon” shared his Newport mansion with his Rembrandts, his wife, and his mistress. The only reason history has forgotten Davis to a large extent is probably the fact that he stopped just short of King Tutankhamen’s tomb, the discovery of which propelled Howard Carter (Davis’s erstwhile employee) to worldwide fame just a few short years later. Drawing on rare and never-before-published archival material, The Millionaire and the Mummies, the first biography of Theodore Davis ever written, rehabilitates a tarnished image through a thrilling tale of crime and adventure, filled with larger-than-life characters, unimaginable treasures, and exotic settings.
Book Synopsis Omm Sety's Living Egypt by : Omm Sety
Download or read book Omm Sety's Living Egypt written by Omm Sety and published by Glyphdoctors. This book was released on 2008 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special connection with ancient Egypt drew Omm Sety to Egypt, where she studied with the great Egyptologists Selim Hassan and Ahmed Fakhry. For more than four decades she made her home in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza and in the mudbrick village surrounding the Temple of Sety I at Abydos. For her, there was no separation between ancient and modern Egypt. Pictures on tomb walls illustrated the games children played in the streets in front of her house. The texts she translated from the temple walls shed light on the origins of the social customs of her Egyptian neighbors. For another four decades this book, which deserves to be called Omm Sety's life work, remained hidden away. Now Nicole B. Hansen, an Egyptologist who specializes in connections between ancient and modern Egypt, brings this work to light in an annotated edition with extensive notes and bibliography, illustrated with Omm Sety's own drawings. It features a foreword by Kent R. Weeks, who rediscovered KV5 in the Valley of the Kings, and an introduction by Walter A. Fairservis, the late director of the Hierakonpolis Project. For Egyptologists, this book includes explanations of texts from the Pyramid Texts to Herodotus as well as ancient Egyptian art. For anthropologists, it represents the results of a lifetime of unbridled participant-observation, during which Omm Sety used folk treatments to cure her ills and agreed to serve as a medium for a spirit during a magic ritual. For those interested in Omm Sety herself, this book provides new insights into her life, the people she knew and the places she lived.
Download or read book The Dial written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Egyptian Legends and Stories by : M. V. Seton-Williams
Download or read book Egyptian Legends and Stories written by M. V. Seton-Williams and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "collection of legends, fables, songs, and prayers" from ancient Egyptian texts.
Book Synopsis International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by :
Download or read book International Catalogue of Scientific Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulletin of the American Geographical Society by : American Geographical Society of New York
Download or read book Bulletin of the American Geographical Society written by American Geographical Society of New York and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hebrewisms of West Africa by : Joseph J. Williams
Download or read book Hebrewisms of West Africa written by Joseph J. Williams and published by Black Classic Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this massive work, Joseph J. Williams documents the Hebraic practices, customs, and beliefs, which he found among the people of Jamaica and the Ashanti of West Africa. He initially examines the close relationship between the Jamaican and the Ashanti cultures and the folk beliefs. He then studies the language and culture of the Ashanti (of whom many Jamaicans have descended) by comparing them to well known and established Hebraic traditions. William's findings suggest stunning similarities. And, he challenges the reader by concluding that Hebraic traditions must have swept across "negro Africa" and left its influence "among the various tribes." While Williams presents a strong case, his evidence, including hundreds of quoted sources, also builds a strong case for the reverse--that an indigenous, continent-wide belief system among African people stands at the very root of Hebrew culture and Western religion. First published in 1931 and long out-of-print, today's reader will find Hebrewisms a valuable resource for understanding the cultural unity of African people.
Book Synopsis International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, 1901-1914 by :
Download or read book International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, 1901-1914 written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Egyptian Art written by Gaston Maspero and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulletin ... by : Ohio State Library
Download or read book Bulletin ... written by Ohio State Library and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Books, Pamphlets, Pictures, and Maps in the Library of Parliament to September, 1911 by : Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Australia)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books, Pamphlets, Pictures, and Maps in the Library of Parliament to September, 1911 written by Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Australia) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Traveling Through Egypt by : Deborah Manley
Download or read book Traveling Through Egypt written by Deborah Manley and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Egypt is one of the two wings of the world, and the excellences of which it can boast are countless. Its metropolis is the dome of Islam, its river the most splendid of rivers." al-Muqaddasi, c. 1000 To travelers, Egypt is a place of dreams: a country whose lifeblood is a mighty river, flowing from the heart of Africa. Along the fertile fringe of its banks an astonishing civilization raised spectacular monuments that our modern minds can hardly encompass. For centuries this past dominated travelers' minds yet the present and its great buildings too engaged their interest and admiration and gave them pleasure. The experience of Egypt has over the centuries inspired travelers to write of what they saw and tried to understand. These travelers' observations are part of the history of modern Egypt, for seeing ourselves through others' eyes helps us to understand ourselves. The compilers of this anthology have selected records of travelers from many countries and cultures over many centuries, and, mainly using the Nile for a pathway, here offer these travelers' observations on the many facets of Egypt. The collection includes extracts from the writings of Herodotus, Strabo, Ibn Hawkal, al-Muqaddasi, Pierre Loti, Rudyard Kipling, Florence Nightingale, and many more.
Book Synopsis Palmers' Index to the Times Newspaper by :
Download or read book Palmers' Index to the Times Newspaper written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
