That’s impressive! Let’s talk about your first choice. What made you decide to go for an atlas? (This is Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt, by John Baines and Jaromir Malek.) The CDD is a lexicographic tool for reading texts written in a late stage of the ancient Egyptian language and in a highly cursive script known as Demotic. Demotic was inuse from ca. 650 B.C. until the middle of the fifth century A.D. Ancient World Onlineis in the first instanceadatabase foropen access material relating to the ancient world, inc Ancient Egypt, Nubia, the Sudan, Papyrology and Late Roman Egypt.

For thousands of years, the great civilization of Egypt produced some of the world’s finest art, including delicately painted tomb walls, carved in stone or wood, and cast in metal. This book traces the history of Egyptian art from its sudden, early bloom to its ultimate resurgence during the Ptolemaic era, when it developed into one of the world’s greatest civilisations. It is illustrated with over 250 wonderful artefacts from the British Museum and other collections in Egypt, the United States, and Europe. The Griffith Institute is the heart of Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, located at the University of Oxford for over eighty years.Pinch bridges the gap between Ancient Egyptian culture–from 3200 BC to AD 400–and modern-day astrology by illuminating the world of ancient Egypt and shedding light on its often misunderstood belief system. She goes through the history of Egypt, from predynastic to postpharaonic times, describing myths and their origins. In the House of Heqanakht: Text and Context in Ancient Egypt gathers Egyptological articles in honor of James P. Allen, Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University. Professor Allen's contribution to our current understanding of the ancient Egyptian language, religion, society, and history is immeasurable and has earned him the respect of generations of scholars. In accordance with Professor Allen’s own academic prolificity, the present volume represents an assemblage of studies that range among different methodologies, objects of study, and time periods. The contributors specifically focus on the interconnectedness of text and context in ancient Egypt, exploring how a symbiosis of linguistics, philology, archaeology, and history can help us reconstruct a more accurate picture of ancient Egypt and its people.

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. He extends his study of the death liturgy to a wide range of topics, from funerary texts and sculpture to tombs, mummies, and burial customs. In this book, the writer goes through nine distinct images of death: as the body being destroyed, social isolation, the court of the dead, a corpse, a mummy, a soul and ancestral spirit of the deceased person that resides in heaven after death; death as separation and passage; homecoming; and secret. Looking for more children’s book recommendations? Have a look at our list of home learning activities for children and teens, our list of 20 great activity books for children, our books for topics, our KS2 book recommendations. The majority of books held by the Bodleian Libraries, in both physical and electronic formats, can be searched for via SOLO. If you are new to Oxford libraries or to SOLO, we recommend visiting the 'Getting Started' and 'How to' guides at the links below. Three-Month Anniversary Giveaway Giveaway: “The Art Of Egyptian Hieroglyphics” and Nile Scribes button! The Griffith Archiveis the largest archive of unpublished Egyptological material in the world,including manuscripts,photographs, slides,drawings, sketches, watercolours, correspondence, notebooks and dig diaries, indexes, plans of Egyptian monuments, and you can browse the collection via the online catalogue. Consultation of thecollection is by appointmentonly.This guide is intended for students and researchers studying Egyptologyat the University of Oxford, although students and researchersfrom any field may find it useful. 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. An excellent university textbook for undergraduates for its clarity and breadth of information, Ikram’s book covers not just the physical ancient Egyptian world, but its historiography, from the first ‘Egyptologist’ Khamwaese to Greek fascination with the region, plus the Crusades and European travellers who satisfied Europe’s grandest museums and humblest collectors with their antiquities dealing. The book’s strongest suit is its elucidation of ancient Egyptian culture, from cradle to grave and beyond, for vastly dissimilar members of Egyptian society, be they separated by time, space, gender, or class. That is one of the enduring myths about Ancient Egypt that is not actually true! There was no slavery at the time of the pyramids. To put it bluntly, 95% of the population of Egypt worked on the land, and for three months of every year the land was underwater when the Nile flooded. So what do you do to feed and mobilise a work force that is otherwise idle and potentially restive? 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). It was a brilliant way of deploying a huge work force. Antike Sudan : Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e. V. in print and eformat