Travel the Globe
Travel the Globe

Author: Desiree Webber

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2012-12-12

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1610691253

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This book assists the busy professional with ready-to-use materials to present entertaining, educational, and age-appropriate programs that introduce young learners to countries and cultures around the world. The result of a collaboration of children's librarians and educators with over 70 years' combined experience, Travel the Globe: Story Times, Activities, and Crafts for Children, Second Edition offers the busy librarian, teacher, or media specialist with ready-to-use resources that introduce children to countries and cultures around the world. It provides recommended books, stories, action rhymes, fingerplays, games, and activities that can be used to plan a series of programs or a single activity that are both entertaining and educational. The book is organized alphabetically by country, with simple, low-cost craft ideas included in each chapter. All crafts use low-cost supplies and are simple to prepare and execute. At least two craft projects are included in each chapter: one for preschoolers, with suggestions for additional simplification; and another designed for children in kindergarten through third grade. The wide variety of resources within makes this book a valuable investment, as it will be useful year after year with new presentations and activities.

DK Top 10 San Diego
DK Top 10 San Diego

Author: DK Travel

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2022-11-15

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0744081335

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Home to the lively Gaslamp Quarter, world-famous Balboa Park, and an eclectic collection of art galleries and museums, San Diego is jam-packed with must-visit spots and surrounded by natural beauty. Make the most of your trip to this laid-back city with DK Eyewitness Top 10. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that San Diego has to offer and ensuring that you don't miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about. DK Eyewitness Top 10 San Diego is your ticket to the trip of a lifetime. Inside DK Eyewitness Top 10 San Diego you will find: - Top 10 lists of San Diego's must-sees, including the Gaslamp Quarter, Balboa Park, Coronado, and La Jolla San Diego's most interesting areas, with the best places for sightseeing, food and drink, and shopping - Themed lists, including the best museums and art galleries, beaches, nightlife, performing arts venues, and much more - Easy-to-follow itineraries, perfect for a day trip, a weekend, or a week - A laminated pull-out map of San Diego, plus four full-color area maps Looking to explore more of California? Try our DK Eyewitness California. About DK Eyewitness: At DK Eyewitness, we believe in the power of discovery. We make it easy for you to explore your dream destinations. DK Eyewitness travel guides have been helping travellers to make the most of their breaks since 1993. DK Eyewitness travel guides have been helping travelers to make the most of their breaks since 1993. Filled with expert advice, striking photography and detailed illustrations, our highly visual DK Eyewitness guides will get you closer to your next adventure. We publish guides to more than 200 destinations, from pocket-sized city guides to comprehensive country guides. Named Top Guidebook Series at the 2020 Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards, we know that wherever you go next, your DK Eyewitness travel guides are the perfect companion.

Diego's Egyptian Expedition
Diego's Egyptian Expedition

Author: Emily Sollinger

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 2009-03-01

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780606057097

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Diego and Medina travel across the desert, surviving scorpions and a sandstorm, to save some thirsty camels.

Diego's Egyptian Expedition #10
Diego's Egyptian Expedition #10

Author: Emily Sollinger

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781424245949

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Diego is heading to Egypt to embark on an expedition. There he learns about very special animals that live in the desert, camels. Join Diego and his new friend, Medina as they cross the desert, find the Great Pyramids and save the camels.

Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues
Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues

Author: Tara Prakash

Publisher: Lockwood Press

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1948488884

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During the Old Kingdom, the ancient Egyptians constructed elaborately decorated mortuary monuments for their pharaohs. By the late Old Kingdom (ca. 2435-2153 BCE), these pyramid complexes began to contain a new and unique type of statue, the so-called prisoner statues. Despite being known to Egyptologists for decades, these statues of kneeling, bound foreign captives have been only partially documented, and questions surrounding their use, treatment, and exact meaning have remained unanswered. Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues-the first comprehensive analysis of the prisoner statues-addresses this gap, demonstrating that the Egyptians conceived of and used the prisoner statues differently over time as a response to contemporary social, cultural, and historical changes. In the process, the author contributes new data and interpretations on topics as diverse as the purpose and function of the pyramid complex, the ways in which the Egyptians understood and depicted ethnicity, and the agency of artists in ancient Egypt. Ultimately, this volume provides a fuller understanding of not only the prisoner statues but also the Egyptian late Old Kingdom as a whole.

Seafaring Expeditions to Punt in the Middle Kingdom
Seafaring Expeditions to Punt in the Middle Kingdom

Author: Kathryn A. Bard

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-08-13

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 9004379606

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In the 12th Dynasty (ca. 1985-1773 BC) the Egyptian state sent a number of seafaring expeditions to the land of Punt, located somewhere in the southern Red Sea region, in order to bypass control of the upper Nile by the Kerma kingdom. Excavations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis on the Red Sea coast of Egypt from 2001 to 2011 have uncovered evidence of the ancient harbor (Saww) used for these expeditions, including parts of ancient ships, expedition equipment and food – all transported ca. 150 km across the desert from Qift in Upper Egypt to the harbor. This book summarizes the results of these excavations for the organization of these logistically complex expeditions, and evidence at the harbor for the location of Punt. “[There] is no shortage of analysis relating to the Punt expeditions, much of which is likely to become the new ‘standard’ account of these voyages and of the huge logistical and ideological undertaking they represented. The volume will therefore be of immense value to scholars and students of ancient Egypt, and of ancient seafaring more generally.” - Julian Whitewright, University of Southampton, in: The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 48.2 (2019)

The Origins of Writing
The Origins of Writing

Author: Wayne M. Senner

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780803291676

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This collection of 12 essays outlines what is now known about the origins and development of writing. The topics discussed include such precursors to writing as the tokens used for record-keeping in the Middle East, as well as cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphics.The alphabet is treated from its invention to its use in Arabic, Greek and Latin. Also presented are the writing systems of China and Middle America and two European systems, runes and ogham, that have been superseded by the Latin alphabet. An introduction surveys the subject and explores myths and theories on the invention of writing.

Romancing the Maya
Romancing the Maya

Author: R. Tripp Evans

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-06-28

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0292789262

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During Mexico's first century of independence, European and American explorers rediscovered its pre-Hispanic past. Finding the jungle-covered ruins of lost cities and artifacts inscribed with unintelligible hieroglyphs—and having no idea of the age, authorship, or purpose of these antiquities—amateur archaeologists, artists, photographers, and religious writers set about claiming Mexico's pre-Hispanic patrimony as a rightful part of the United States' cultural heritage. In this insightful work, Tripp Evans explores why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexico's cultural heritage as the United States' own. He focuses in particular on five well-known figures—American writer and amateur archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens, British architect Frederick Catherwood, Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the French émigré photographers Désiré Charnay and Augustus Le Plongeon. Setting these figures in historical and cultural context, Evans uncovers their varying motives, including the Manifest Destiny-inspired desire to create a national museum of American antiquities in New York City, the attempt to identify the ancient Maya as part of the Lost Tribes of Israel (and so substantiate the Book of Mormon), and the hope of proving that ancient Mesoamerica was the cradle of North American and even Northern European civilization. Fascinating stories in themselves, these accounts of the first explorers also add an important new chapter to the early history of Mesoamerican archaeology.