Egypt

Egypt

Author: Alberto Siliotti

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 1994-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780500016473

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Presents in magnificent color some of the finest photographs ever taken of Egypt's monuments and fabulous treasures including the pyramids of Giza and Saqqara and the temples and tombs of Thebes as well as less well known sites and cities of the Delta, the Faiyum, Sinai and Nubia. Includes site plans and photographs of the principal structures and objects from the site.


The Life of Margaret Alice Murray

The Life of Margaret Alice Murray

Author: Kathleen L. Sheppard

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0739174185

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The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology is the first book-length biography of Margaret Alice Murray (1863–1963), one of the first women to practice archeology. Despite Murray’s numerous professional successes, her career has received little attention because she has been overshadowed by her mentor, Sir Flinders Petrie. This oversight has obscured the significance of her career including her fieldwork, the students she trained, her administration of the pioneering Egyptology Department at University College London (UCL), and her published works. Rather than focusing on Murray’s involvement in Petrie’s archaeological program, Kathleen L. Sheppard treats Murray as a practicing scientist with theories, ideas, and accomplishments of her own. This book analyzes the life and career of Margaret Alice Murray as a teacher, excavator, scholar, and popularizer of Egyptology, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, and more. Sheppard also analyzes areas outside of Murray’s archaeology career, including her involvement in the suffrage movement, her work in folklore and witchcraft studies, and her life after her official retirement from UCL.


Egypt's Making

Egypt's Making

Author: Michael Rice

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-03-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1134492626

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Already a classic and widely used text, this second edition has been wholly revised and updated in the light of the many discoveries made since its first publication. Michael Rice's bold and original work evokes the fascination and wonder of the most ancient period of Egypt's history. Covering a huge range of topics, including formative influences in the political and social organization and art of Egypt, the origins of kingship, the age of pyramids, the nature of Egypt's contact with the lands around the Arabian Gulf, and the earliest identifiable developments of the historic Egyptian personality. Egypt's Making is a scholarly yet readable and imaginative approach to this compelling ancient civilization.


Egypt's Legacy

Egypt's Legacy

Author: Michael Rice

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780415157797

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Rice reviews the splendour and majesty of the history of Ancient Egypt, drawing upon Jungian psychology to explain the allure of the period and arguing that characteristic Egyptian institutions underlie the accepted norms of Western civilisation


Esoteric Egypt

Esoteric Egypt

Author: J. S. Gordon

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-01-30

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 1591437776

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A study of the 100,000-year-old spiritual science of ancient Egypt • Examines the metaphysical structure of our universe as seen by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Celts, showing that each is based on the same central concepts from time immemorial • Reveals that the ancient Egyptians believed in reincarnation and a spiritual evolutionary process • Explains the connections between the movements of Orion and Sirius and the story of Osiris and Isis, the importance of the Pleiades and circumpolar stars to the Egyptians, and the fundamental unity of the Egyptian pantheon • Investigates the people who colonized greater Egypt 100,000 years ago, descendants of the Atlanteans In Esoteric Egypt, J. S. Gordon reveals how the sacred science and wisdom tradition of ancient Egypt--the Land of Khem--stems from an advanced prehistoric worldwide civilization. Examining the metaphysical structure of our universe as seen by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Celts, he shows that each tradition is merely a variation on the central concepts of the precession of the equinoxes and the obliquity of the ecliptic pole. He explores the connections between the cyclical movements of Orion and Sirius and the story of Osiris and Isis, the importance of the Pleiades and the circumpolar stars, and the ancient tradition of man as a divine being “born from the substance of the stars.” He investigates the people who colonized greater Egypt 100,000 years ago, the progenitors of ancient Egyptian civilization descended from the 4th- and 5th-Root Race Atlanteans. Gordon explores the magical and esoteric meanings behind Egyptian sacred ritual and temple art, drawing parallels to the Mystery School process of initiation. Explaining the fundamental unity of the Egyptian pantheon and the structure of the after-death state, he shows that the Egyptians clearly believed in reincarnation and a spiritual evolutionary process. Revealing the ancient sacred science of the Land of Khem, teachings passed down from the earliest times, he examines the psychospiritual nature of the human being and the function of our spiritual identity and our souls.