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Ancient Egypt : a very short introduction /
The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination-mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured our imaginations for generations. We all have a mental picture of ancient Egypt, but is it the right one? How much do we really know about this once great civilization? In this absorbin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Very short introductions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the story so far
- Discovering and inventing : constructing ancient Egypt
- History : building chronologies and writing histories
- Writing : the origins and implications of hieroglyphs
- Kingship : stereotyping and the "oriental despot"
- Identity : issues of ethnicity, race, and gender
- Death : mummification, dismemberment, and the cult of Osiris
- Religion : Egyptian gods and temples
- Egyptomania : the recycling and reinventing of Egypt's icons and images.