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Author : Gerry D. Scott
Publisher : California State Univ
ISBN 13 : 9780945486084
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Temple, Tomb, and Dwelling written by Gerry D. Scott and published by California State Univ. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Steven Bianchi
Publisher : Getty Conservation Institute
ISBN 13 : 0892362294
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book In the Tomb of Nefertari written by Robert Steven Bianchi and published by Getty Conservation Institute. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most lavishly decorated tomb in ancient Egypt was constructed for Queen Nefertari, wife of Rameses the Great. The Getty Conservation Institute has been instrumental in the effort to restore the tomb’s magnificent wall paintings, and in the fall of 1992, to mark the project’s completion, an exhibition was held at the Getty Museum. The exhibition included a model of the tomb and full-scale reproductions of the wall paintings. The publication describes the conservation work (including before and after photographs), outlines the life of Nefertari, and places the tomb in the context of Egyptian art history.
Author : Janice Kamrin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136171290
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book The Cosmos of Khnumhotep II at Beni Hasan written by Janice Kamrin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. High in a cliff at the remote site of Beni Hasan in Middle Egypt, thirty-nine ancient tombs line a narrow ledge above the Nile River. These tombs were cut into the rock face, with pillars of living rock often left standing inside the echoing chambers. The tomb of Khnumhotep II dates to the early 12th Dynasty, primarily to the reign of Amenemhet II. The owner was a high official of the ancient administrative area in which Beni Hasan was located, the Oryx (XVIth Upper Egyptian) none or province. His primary title was Overseer of the Eastern Desert, a title which he held from Year 19 of Amenemhet II (c. 1910 B.C.) until at least Year 6 of Senwosret II (c. 1891 B.C.). This monument is the latest of the large Beni Hasan tombs, and represents the culmination of the series. The detailed analysis of this complex tomb necessarily comprises most of this volume.
Author : Dieter Arnold
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870995065
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Pyramid of Senwosret I written by Dieter Arnold and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1988 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the Museum's records of excavations from 1906 to 1934 at the pyramid site of Lisht, revised and augmented by results of recent excavations (1985 to present). Further volumes are in preparation. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : Anne K. Capel
Publisher : Hudson Hills
ISBN 13 : 9781555951290
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven written by Anne K. Capel and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John K. McDonald
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892364157
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book House of Eternity written by John K. McDonald and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-11-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nefertari, the favorite queen of Rameses II, was buried about 3,200 years ago in the most exquisitely decorated tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Queens. Discovered in 1904 by Italian explorer Ernesto Schiaparelli, the tomb had deteriorated to a disastrous extent when emergency consolidation began in 1986. The six-year conservation project of the GCI and the Egyptian Antiquities Organization was completed in 1992. In this fascinating exploration of the tomb, John McDonald takes the reader through each chamber, describing the hieroglyphic messages depicted in the brilliant wall paintings and discussing the images within the context of Egyptian beliefs. He also offers insights into the life of Nefertari, the development and symbolism of royal tombs, and the construction and decoration of the tombs. House of Eternity is illustrated with historic black-and-white images and more recent color photographs that reveal the vibrant beauty of the wall paintings. In November 1995 the tomb was reopened to the public. Because of the potential for damage and deterioration to the fragile wall paintings caused by increased humidity, carbon dioxide, and microbiological activity introduced by visitors to the tomb, the number permitted to enter daily is strictly controlled by the Egyptian authorities. This book results from a desire of the GCI to enrich visitors' experience by providing a detailed descriptive walk-through of the tomb while conveying a strong message regarding the need for conservation and continuous monitoring to ensure the long-term survival of the tomb's paintings. Visitors to the tomb and the armchair traveler alike will find House of Eternity to be an excellent resource for understanding Nefertari's journey to the afterlife and for appreciating the extraordinary depictions of that journey on the walls of Nefertari's tomb.
Author : Katharine T. von Stackelberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190664916
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Housing the New Romans written by Katharine T. von Stackelberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways in which Classics has shaped modern Western culture, but very little attention has been directed toward the reception of classical architecture. Housing the New Romans: Architectual Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World addresses this gap by investigating ways in which appropriation and allusion facilitated the reception of Classical Greece and Rome through the requisition and redeployment of classicizing tropes to create neo-Antique sites of "dwelling" in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The volume, across nine essays, will cover both European and American iterations of place making, including Sir John Soanes' house in London, the Hôtel de Beauharnais in Paris, and the Getty Villa in California. By focusing on structures and places that are oriented towards private life-houses, hotels, clubs, tombs, and gardens-the volume directs the critical gaze towards diverse and complex sites of curatorial self-fashioning. The goal of the volume is to provide a multiplicity of interpretative frameworks (e.g. object-agency enchantment, hyperreality, memory-infrastructure) that may be applied to the study of architectural reception. This critical approach makes Housing the New Romans the first work of its kind in the emerging field of architectural and landscape reception studies and in the hitherto textually dominated field of classical reception.
Author : William Christopher Hayes
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870991906
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Scepter of Egypt written by William Christopher Hayes and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1953 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Monderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610230506
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Eternal House written by Frederick Monderson and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ETERNAL HOUSE - THE EGYPTIAN TOMB Have you ever wondered why the ancient Egyptians, the people of Kemet, along the Nile River, spent so much time in preparation for their burial? Why so much resources went into such preparation? Did they forsake life on earth planning for their death? How did this concept life after develop and what evidence supports the contention they intended to take it with them? How did changes in the history of the nation affect burial practices? How did his religious beliefs change yet remain the same? Why is modern man so fascinated with people long departed at the beginning of history who formulated so many aspects of his experience in religion, craft and industry that set humanity along a path of spiritual and cultural development? Who were some principals involved in the resurrection of ancient Egypt and what motivated them to undertake the task? This and more are explored to understand the quest for immortality through architectural construction and religious and burial practices. From the time of their metaphysical consciousness, ancient Egyptians believed the tomb, ?eternal house,? was sacred space between this world and the next. In quest to spend eternity joyously they constructed tombs, conducted funerary ceremonies and provisioned and decorated their final resting places with necessities to make future life an enjoyable experience. There 9 parts of the soul would reconstitute the body of the deceased. In text and photographs the author traces the architectural development of both tomb and religious belief beginning in the prehistoric period up until the New Kingdom where construction and burial practices developed, escalated, even becoming more elaborate as the society enjoyed the great flowering through its many evolutions and golden ages. Thus, the many stages of tomb development are explored through archaeological reports from significant tombs. Eternal House: The Egyptian Tomb provides the reader insights on this significant aspect of Egyptian cultural history by examining various forms of the architecture of their final resting places, whether kingly or nobles? tombs, even the repose granted the poor.
Author : Michael B. Hundley
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589839196
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)
Download or read book Gods in Dwellings written by Michael B. Hundley and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2013-11-10 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book devoted exclusively to temples and perceptions of the divine presences that inhabit them, Michael B. Hundley focuses on the official religions of the ancient Near East and explores the interface between the human and the divine within temple environs. Hundley identifies common ancient Near Eastern temple systems and examines issues that include what temple structures communicate, how temples were understood to function, temple ideology, the installation of divine presence in a temple, the connection between presence and physical representation, and human service to the deity. Drawing on architectural and spatial theory, ritual theory, theories of language, art history, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, and comparative studies, Hundley offers a single interpretive lens through which to view temple worship. Features: A close examination of temples in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Hittite Anatolia, and Syria-Palestine An interdisciplinary treatment of architecture, language, ritual, and art A dual focus on how a deity's divine presence connects to space and art and how human service to the deity maintains the deity's active presence
Author : Marshall J. Becker
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9780924171710
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Excavations in Residential Areas of Tikal--Groups with Shrines written by Marshall J. Becker and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1999-01-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intensive excavations in settlement areas within greater Tikal generated far more than an understanding of the complex gradations of social classes at this lowland Maya site. Identification of a specific architectural pattern associated with relatively small shrines on the eastern side of certain residential groups, and of a distinctive mortuary program, provides a means by which a "plaza plan" can be predicted using good site maps alone. This discovery enabled archaeologists to predict locations for high-status burials in residential as well as in ceremonial areas. Application of these findings at sites beyond Tikal has been demonstrated to be successful throughout the region and even beyond the Maya heartland. Identification of this "plaza plan" also has led us to recognize nine other architectural group plans at Tikal, providing a model for planning excavation strategies and developing theories of cultural change at Tikal and other Maya sites. University Museum Monograph, 104
Author : Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia; written by Giovanni Battista Belzoni and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Mulholland
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Nazareth Quest written by Bernard Mulholland and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nazareth Quest is a tense thriller set in Israel. Nazareth Quest arguably combines the best of the CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) franchise together with archaeology. Book review of Nazareth Quest in Mensa Magazine: Irish Mensan Bernard Mulholland is well known for his academic publications. An archaeologist and historian with a PhD from Queen’s University in Belfast, his thesis was published as The Early Byzantine Christian Church – and his other works include The Man from Mensa, a look at Mensa’s history and research projects. Now, in a complete change of direction, Bernard has published his first novel. Nazareth Quest is a dramatic thriller set in the historic lands of Israel. Invited to join a team of archaeologists in Nazareth, to survey the archaeology beneath the Sisters of Nazareth Convent, Brendan Mallon leaps at the opportunity. Crusaders, both Templars and Hospitallers, have been intimately associated with the history of Christian churches in Nazareth for more than a millennia, and now these archaeologists find themselves tasked with uncovering secrets of these ancient orders. What first drew these Crusaders to Nazareth, and could the archaeologists reveal the hidden truth behind many of the mysteries that have transcended time? Forced to battle, first with soldiers of Christ and then for their very existence against a demon overlord with ties to the British monarchy, the archaeologists each have to dig deep to discover the route to their own salvation. And, more than that, to then decide whether to join a quest to recover holy relics associated with the Last Supper. Editor (2022), ‘Bernard’s on a Nazareth Quest’, Books, Mensa Magazine, November, p. 12.
Author : Sir Charles Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book “The” Temple Or the Tomb written by Sir Charles Warren and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia; and of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in Search of the Ancient Berenice; and Another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. By G.Belzoni. Second Edition written by Giovanni Battista Belzoni and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791482499
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Construction of Space in Early China written by Mark Edward Lewis and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the formation of the Chinese empire through its reorganization and reinterpretation of its basic spatial units: the human body, the household, the city, the region, and the world. The central theme of the book is the way all these forms of ordered space were reshaped by the project of unification and how, at the same time, that unification was constrained and limited by the necessary survival of the units on which it was based. Consequently, as Mark Edward Lewis shows, each level of spatial organization could achieve order and meaning only within an encompassing, superior whole: the body within the household, the household within the lineage and state, the city within the region, and the region within the world empire, while each level still contained within itself the smaller units from which it was formed. The unity that was the empire's highest goal avoided collapse back into the original chaos of nondistinction only by preserving within itself the very divisions on the basis of family or region that it claimed to transcend.
Author : Heonik Kwon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520247963
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (479 download)
Download or read book After the Massacre written by Heonik Kwon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This text considers how Vietnamese villagers have assimilated the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual lives.
