Kategoria BISAC: History >> Ancient - Egypt

When first studying Ancient Egyptian History, the author, a dental surgeon, was struck by the fact that, with the exception of a blind harpist or an occasional adipose figure, the Ancient Egyptian, was portrayed as healthy and fit with a superb physique. However, the reality was somewhat different. It has been discovered in previous studies of the mummies and the profusion of skeletal material which are available in many collections that their lives were far from ideal and many died in pain with diseases found in modern man. Then there are the many medical papyri which give prescriptions...

- Reveals black Africa to be at the genesis of ancient civilization and the human story

- Examines extensive studies into the lost civilization of the "Star People" by renowned anthropologists, archaeologists, genetic scientists, and cultural historians as well as the authors' archaeoastronomy and hieroglyphics research

- Deciphers the history behind the mysterious Nabta Playa ceremonial area and its stone calendar circle and megaliths

Relegated to the realm of...

This is the first guide to reading hieroglyphs that begins with Egyptian monuments themselves. Assuming no knowledge on the part of the reader, it shows how to interpret the information on the inscriptions in a step-by-step journey through the script and language of ancient Egypt.

We enter the world of the ancient Egyptians and explore their views on life and death, Egypt and the outside world, humanity and the divine. The book draws on texts found on some thirty artifacts ranging from coffins to stelae to obelisks found in museums in Egypt, America, and Europe, and selected across...

- Details the vandalism of Egyptian antiquities and suppression of ancient knowledge under foreign rulers who sought to cleanse Egypt of its "pagan" past

- Reveals the real reason behind Napoleon's invasion of Egypt: Freemasonry

- Shows how the censorship of nonofficial Egyptology as well as new archaeological discoveries continued under Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass

Called the "Mirror of Heaven" by Hermes-Thoth and regarded as the birthplace of civilization,...

George James was a professor at a small black college in Arkansas during the 1950s when he wrote this book. Originally from Guyana, he was an intellectual who studied African and European classics. He soon realized something was wrong with the way the history of philosophy had been documented by Western scholars. Their biggest mistake, according to James, was they had assumed philosophy had started with the Greeks. James had found that philosophy was almost entirely from ancient Egypt and that the records of this had not only been distorted but, in many cases, deliberately falsified. His...

In den Thukydidesscholien mittelalterlicher griechischer Handschriften sind die Reste der wertvollen antiken und byzantischen Wort- und Texterklarungen zum schwierigen Thukydidestext uberliefert. Die letzte, fur ihre Zeit sehr verdienstvolle, Ausgabe erschien 1927, sie entspricht aber wesentlichen modernen Anspruchen nicht: Basierung des Textes auf Sichtung und Erfassung des gesamten uberlieferten Handschriftenmaterials und Sonderung der wertvollsten alten Textbestandteile von weniger bedeutenden spatbyzantinischen Zufugungen. Durch grundlegende Untersuchungen vor allem von Alberti (dessen...