Creatures of Earth, Water and Sky: Essays on Animals in Ancient Egypt and Nubia

ISBN-13: 9789088907722 / Francuski / Miękka / 2019 / 310 str.

Stephanie Porcier; Salima Ikram; Stephane Pasquali

O autorze

Stéphanie Porcier is an Egyptologist and Archeozoologist specializing in the study of animals in ancient Egypt and especially animal mummies. She directs the inter- and multidisciplinary program MAHES (French acronym for Egyptian Animal and Human Mummies) which aims to study the most important collection of animal mummies outside Egypt kept at the Musée des Confluences, Lyon (France). Salima Ikram is Distinguished University Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, and has excavated extensively in Egypt as well as in Turkey. She has directed the Animal Mummy Project, the Amenmesse Project (KV10/KV63), the North Kharga Oasis Darb Ain Amur Project, and headed the archaeozoology team at Kinet Hoyuk in Turkey. Stéphane Pasquali is Lecturer at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (France) where he teaches Egyptology and conducts research on Written and Material Culture. He has recently published scientific papers about texts as objects and texts as creations, as well as on the reception of Pharaonic Egypt in Medieval Egypt.Since 2013 he has collaborated with the inter- and multi-disciplinary program MAHES (Momies Animales et Humaines EgyptienneS) in their new study of the huge collection of animal mummies kept in the Musée des Confluences, Lyon.