wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9780140262520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile - their life source - was a divine gift. This book provides an insight into their religious beliefs and practices, from 5000 BC to the 4th century AD, when Egyptian Christianity replaced the earlier customs. It presents an introduction to the world of half-human/half-animal gods and goddesses.
The ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile - their life source - was a divine gift. This book provides an insight into their religious beliefs and p...
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92,77 zł |
Voices of Ancient Egypt: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life
ISBN: 9780313397820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A wealth of evidence survives to tell the stories of ancient Egypt, including monuments, artifacts, paintings, sculptures, human remains, and literature. But there is yet another way to access this fascinating culture--through original writings that span the period from circa 3100 BCE to 400 CE. This book's 51 documents include schoolboys' letters and exercises, prayers, hymns, love poems, narratives, historical inscriptions, medical and mathematical texts, and religious and funerary inscriptions. Most of the texts are penned by Egyptians, but another perspective is added through the... A wealth of evidence survives to tell the stories of ancient Egypt, including monuments, artifacts, paintings, sculptures, human remains, and liter... |
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464,10 zł |
Ancient Egyptians: Beliefs and Practices, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781898723721 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book traces the evolution of religious beliefs and practices within the historical and political contexts of the main periods of Egypt s civilization. It shows how historical and political events influenced state cults, temple rituals, and funerary practices and also emphasizes how religion permeated most aspects of everyday life, including law, medicine, and education. "Ancient Egyptians" also describes how some religious customs have even survived, in different forms, until the present day."
This book traces the evolution of religious beliefs and practices within the historical and political contexts of the main periods of Egypt s civiliza...
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108,93 zł |
Egyptian Mummies and Modern Science
ISBN: 9781107662629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Egyptian mummies have always aroused popular and scientific interest; however, most modern studies, although significantly increased in number and range, have been published in specialist journals. Now, this unique book, written by a long-established team of scientists based at the University of Manchester (England), brings this exciting, cross-disciplinary area of research to a wider readership. Its main aim is to show how this team's multidisciplinary, investigative methods and the unique resource of the Egyptian Mummy Tissue Bank are being used for the new major international...
Egyptian mummies have always aroused popular and scientific interest; however, most modern studies, although significantly increased in number and ran...
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216,69 zł |
Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt Revised
ISBN: 9780195366716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Nile Valley civilization, which spanned a period from c. 5000 B.C. to the early centuries A.D., was one of the earliest created by humankind. This handy reference provides a comprehensive overview of more than five millennia of Egyptian history and archeology, from predynastic times to the Old and New Kingdoms to the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Accessible, authoritative, and clearly organized, the Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt offers an engaging look at a culture whose art and architecture, religion, and medicine would come to form the basis of Western Civilization. The...
The Nile Valley civilization, which spanned a period from c. 5000 B.C. to the early centuries A.D., was one of the earliest created by humankind. This...
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124,18 zł |
The Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt: A Modern Investigation of Pharaoh's Workforce
ISBN: 9780415152921 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text presents the Egyptian builders of the pyramids as simple people, leading ordinary lives while they are engaged on building the great tomb for a Pharoah. The text is aimed at the general reader, offering a picture of a community that lived in Egypt and built one of the pyramids, some 4000 years ago.
This text presents the Egyptian builders of the pyramids as simple people, leading ordinary lives while they are engaged on building the great tomb fo...
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197,05 zł |
The Experience of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9780415518581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Experience of Ancient Egypt provides a comprehensive portrait of what we know about ancient Egypt today, examining in detail issues of religion, of beliefs and practices surrounding death, of everyday life and of literature. In an engaging style, the author traces Egyptology from its classical roots, through the painstaking process of deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the most up-to-date bio-medical and archaeological techniques, never forgetting how time has proved that it is impossible to deliver the absolute truth about ancient Egypt.
The Experience of Ancient Egypt provides a comprehensive portrait of what we know about ancient Egypt today, examining in detail issues of religion, o...
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222,99 zł |
Life and Times of Takabuti in Ancient Egypt: Investigating the Belfast Mummy
ISBN: 9781800348585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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126,50 zł |
The Experience of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9780415032636 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Experience of Ancient Egypt provides a comprehensive portrait of what we know about ancient Egypt today, examining in detail issues of religion, of beliefs and practices surrounding death, of everyday life and of literature.
In an engaging style, the author traces Egyptology from its classical roots, through the painstaking process of deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the most up-to-date bio-medical and archaeological techniques, never forgetting how time has proved that it is impossible to deliver the absolute truth about ancient... The Experience of Ancient Egypt provides a comprehensive portrait of what we know about ancient Egypt today, examining in detail issues of re...
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674,31 zł |
A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9781852640323 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Important historical and cultural figures as well as some well-known individuals in Egypt's long history (c 3100 BC - c AD 600) are incorporated in this work of reference. Rulers and members of their families, significant figures and important foreigners with whom the Egyptians came into contact are all included. The entries are based on original source material and there are bibliographies for each entry.
Important historical and cultural figures as well as some well-known individuals in Egypt's long history (c 3100 BC - c AD 600) are incorporated in th...
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544,64 zł |
The Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt: A Modern Investigation of Pharaoh's Workforce
ISBN: 9781138153110 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Rosalie David's hands, the Egyptian builders of the pyramids are revealed as simple people, leading ordinary lives while they are engaged on building the great tomb for a Pharoah. This is an engrossing detective story, bringing to the general reader a fascinating picture of a special community that lived in Egypt and built one of the pyramids, some four thousand years ago.
In Rosalie David's hands, the Egyptian builders of the pyramids are revealed as simple people, leading ordinary lives while they are engaged on buildi...
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700,25 zł |