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Author: Elizabeth Blyth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-10-04
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1134136684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first publication in English to provide an in-depth examination including illustrations of the historical developments of the famous temple site Karnak, from its early shrine to the greatest state temple of Ancient Eygpt's mighty empire.
Author: Kent R. Weeks
Publisher: White Star Publishers
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is a thorough, easy-to-use guide to the vast and stunning collection of art and antiquities found in Egypt's archaeological paradise, the Valley of the Kings. The Tomb of Tutankhamun and its contents are featured prominently, as are the temples of Luxor and Karnak, the dromos, the Luxor Museum, the Chapel of Achoris, the Valley of Asasif, the Ramesseum, the Valley of the Queens, and the Colossi of Memnon. Dendera, Esna, Abydos Edfu, and Korn Ombo-all peripheral locations to the major sites-are included because their state of preservation makes them especially interesting for visitors and scholars. Weeks has spent his career documenting the regions and infuses this guide with a level of clarity and detail not previously achieved in a handbook.
Author: Jill Kamil
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780582780286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Published: 1981-11-01
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780892810215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains the first published results of Schwaller's 12 years of research at the temple of Luxor and its implications for interpreting the symbolic and mathematical processes of the Egyptians through their sacred architecture.
Author: Alessandro Bongioanni
Publisher: White Star Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9788854400092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is dedicated to the monuments of Luxor and the vast region known as the Valley of the Kings. With a review of the most important sites and the splendid works of art contained in the tombs, it described the most recent archaeological discoveries and reconstructs historical events buried for centuries under the sand.
Author: A.M. Blackman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-08-21
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1136206876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2005. This work, while aimed at a general audience, is by no means a dreary introductory textbook. Blackman perceptively answers the reader's most pressing questions about life in ancient Thebes, providing not only an informative text but also an engaging story. Topics covered include life in ancient Luxor, how Thebes became the capital of Egypt, poems, songs and romances, and great kings in time of war.
Author: Nigel Strudwick
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780801436932
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"After reviewing the topography of the site, the Strudwicks recount the history of Thebes from the city's rise in the late Old Kingdom to the peak of its power in the New Kingdom and to its gradual decline in the Graeco-Roman period.
Author: R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Published: 1999-10-01
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9780892817122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 700 photographs and line illustrations documenting the ancient Egyptian temples of Karnak • A magnificent excursion that explores the monuments, ruins, statues, and bas-reliefs from the ancient and highly developed civilization of Egypt • The only complete photographic record available of this important acheological treasure • Contains 600 photographs by two top French award-winning photographers This book is a magnificent excursion led by R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz to the monuments, ruins, statues, and bas-reliefs of the temples of Karnak. With nearly 600 photographs by Georges and Valentine de Mire, more than 450 of which are full-page plates, this volume is the only complete photographic record of this important historic site. Because of recent vandalism many of the artifacts are no longer intact, and it is no longer possible to see many of the details captured in these images. This promenade through the temples of Karnak reveals the remains of a world devoted to an unimpeachable faith in the afterlife, a faith whose conviction seems to have exalted its builders and artists, as was the case for several brief centuries with those who constructed the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. One did not work at fashioning these stones, nor were these works sculpted under someone's strict authority; here it was necessary to act out of the heart. Every gesture in the depictions, every arrangement in the buildings, is a hieroglyph from the symbolic language of the sages who spoke to spirit and consciousness.
Author: Peter Peter James Brand
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9004176446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam J. Murnane (1945-2000) dedicated his life to the epigraphic recording and historical interpretation of the monuments of pharaonic Egypt. In tribute to his important contributions to Egyptology, a prominent group of his colleagues and students offer a range of new studies on Egyptian epigraphy and historiography. Amarna studies loom large in the volume as they did in Murnane's own work. Several chapters investigate the art, history and chronology of the reigns of Akhenaten and his immediate successors. Other contributions deal with historical issues, especially those connected with the epigraphic and archaeological aspects of the Theban temples of Karnak and Luxor. The book is richly illustrated with photographs and drawings.
Author: Giulio Magli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-07-22
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1107032083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost of the "wonders" of our ancient past have come down to us unencumbered by written information. In particular, this is the case of the Great Pyramid of Giza and of many other ancient Egyptian monuments. However, there is no doubt as to the interest of their builders in the celestial cycles: the "cosmic order" was indeed the true basis of the pharaoh's power. This book takes the reader on a chronological journey through ancient Egypt to explore the relationship between astronomy, landscape, and power during the most flourishing periods of ancient Egyptian civilization. Using the lens of archaeoastronomy, Giulio Magli reexamines the key monuments and turning points of Egyptian architecture and history, such as the solar deification of King Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid, the Hatshepsut reign, and the Amarna revolution.
