The answer is that the people were required to give their labour to the state as a form of taxation (in a pre-monetary economy). Provides links to more than 165,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. A History of World Egyptology is a ground-breaking reference work that traces the study of ancient Egypt over the past 150 years. We can’t either and to celebrate we are giving away a most wonderful book on The Art of Egyptian Hieroglyphics by David Sandison and one of our Nile Scribes buttons! We have handpicked some great reads that explore Egyptian history, culture, museum collections, and archaeology that you can use to familiarize yourself with the key issues we like to discuss in the news, conferences, and documentaries.

Now in Egyptian Mythology, Geraldine Pinch provides an in-depth introduction to Egyptian mythology that unravels the riddle of Egyptian myth. This compilationof freely available online resources for Ancient Egyptian texts has beenpublished bythe Egyptologists' Electronic Forum (EEF). She examines how Egyptian culture grew around the Nile’s flooding, or inundation, a phenomenon on which the country’s entire well-being depended, as well as how features of the inundation were personified as deities.The scenes of family members are not a record of family history but language games of the tomb owner that convey specific meaning to those who enter the chapel despite time and space. A larger selection of subject-related databases can be found on the Bodleian Libraries' Databases A-Z. While other (both more narrative, but also overtly critical) histories of the discipline have appeared recently, for breadth and detail of coverage this sizeable volume is difficult to rival. This book goes hand in hand with Bard’s on the history of Egypt as you study in detail the most famous and important Egyptian objects mentioned in these books. Open Book Publishers is one of the biggest independent open access academic publishers of monographs in the UK.

It is open to all students of Egyptology in the University and anyone else who can prove that access to the collection will be beneficial to their studies. Nile Scribes : This introduction to the ancient Egyptian world is simultaneously thorough and concise, and is generously and gorgeously illustrated throughout with an abundance of the author’s photographs taken during her many years of living and working in Egypt. The author explains how the ancient painters created a method that was perfectly suited to expressing the Egyptians’ worldview, which was contained in their religious and funerary convictions. The Griffith Institute is the heart of Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, located at the University of Oxford for over eighty years. In Death and Salvation, Assmann delves into images of death and death practices in ancient Egypt to offer fresh insights into the civilization as a whole.Packed with both adventure and information, it will encourage children to think about, discuss and find out more about the life, culture and beliefs of this period. The monograph presents a story, based on the analysis of available evidence, a synchronic and diachronic reconstruction of the development and changes of the chaîne opératoire of copper and copper alloy artefacts. Full of mystery and cliffhangers, the reader will enter a world of Egyptian Pharaohs and ancient curses. He is Regents Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona and founding director of the University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition.

NS: Lavishly illustrated with gorgeous colour photographs, Malek presents his selection of Egyptian masterpieces from as early as the mid fourth millennium BC down to the last flickers of Egyptian civilisation in 200 AD. An international cooperative project to provide high quality peer reviewed information on ancient Egypt. They built massive pyramids and temples and created a complex irrigation system to farm the fertile Nile River valley. This beautifully produced book, complete with a gold and jewel-encrusted cover, is written as a copy of the journal of Miss Emily Sands, a fictional amateur Egyptologist.So why not curl up with a good book and learn more about one of the most fascinating cultures in history?

Cal Flyn, our deputy editor, takes us through the seven books that are set 60+ years in the past and yet speak to the present. Many aspects of ancient Egyptian culture, such as art, religion, and architecture, have been adopted by Western cultures. Published by Nosy Crow in collaboration with the British Museum, this award-nominated book will appeal to children in KS1 and KS2. Through the analysis of the depiction of family members, this book investigates familial relations, the funerary cult of the dead, ancestor worship, and relevant texts. Founded in 1884 the Pitt Rivers Museumhouses the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford.There is the most beautiful statue of him, perfectly preserved, in the Luxor Museum, and I can stare at it for hours – face to face with one of the greatest pharaohs of them all. UCL Press is a leading open access scholarly publisher, publishing mainly scholarly monographs, edited collections, textbooks andjournals.