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The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology first opened its doors in 1915, and since then has attracted visitors from all over the world as well as providing valuable teaching resources. Named after its founder, the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie, the Museum holds more than 80,000 objects an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stevenson, Alice (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : UCL Press, 2015.
Colección:Open Access e-Books
Temas:
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology > Archaeological collections.
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.
Ancient history: to c 500 CE.
Archaeology.
History.
History: earliest times to present day.
Humanities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Antiquities.
Archaeology > Private collections.
Egypt > Antiquities.
Égypte > Antiquités.
Egypt.
archaeology.
sudan.
egypt.
museum.
catalogs (documents)
Catalogs.
Catalogues.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a modest little museum / Alice Stevenson and Debbie Challis
  • Violette Lafleur: bombs, boxes and one brave lady / Helen Pike
  • The earliest evidence for people in Egypt: the first tools / Norah Moloney
  • Out of this world: prehistoric space beads / Alice Stevenson
  • Abu Bagousheh: Father of Pots / Alice Stevenson
  • Lost and found: the rediscovery of the Tarkhan dress / Janet Johnstone
  • The lost lions of Koptos / Alice Stevenson
  • King Catfish and his mud seals / Pia Edqvist
  • Pulling early kingship together / Richard Bussmann
  • A face in the crowd: chance encounters with Egyptian sculpture / Alice Stevenson
  • Best foot forward: items of ancient Egyptian dress / Tracey Golding
  • Pyramids in the Petrie / Alice Stevenson
  • An offending member / Debbie Challis and Alice Stevenson
  • Wandering wombs and wicked water: the 'gynaecological' papyrus / Carole Reeves
  • Ali Suefi of Lahun and the gold cylinder / Stephen Quirke
  • Seth: seductions and stelae / John J. Johnston
  • Termites and tapioca: the survival of Amarna's colours / Lucia Gahlin
  • The sacred geometry of music and harmony / Sherif Abouelhadid
  • Reconnecting across the centuries: fragments from Abydos / Alice Stevenson
  • 'While skulls bobbed around on the waves ... ': retrieving Horwedja's shabtis / Campbell Price
  • Revealing animals: discoveries inside funerary bundles / Lidija McKnight
  • Miw: the Langton Cat Collection / Debbie Challis
  • Myth and science: ancient glass collections / Daniela Rosenow
  • 'She smites the legions of men': a Greek goddess in Egypt / Edmund Connolly
  • Journeys to the Afterlife / Alice Stevenson
  • Living images: funerary portraits from Roman times / Jan Picton
  • 'Tis the Season: annual exhibitions in archaeology / Amara Thornton
  • The archaeology of race: Petrie's Memphis heads / Debbie Challis
  • Hakubutsukan: Egypt between East Asia and England / Alice Stevenson
  • From China to Sudan / Debbie Challis
  • The ancient Kushite city of Meroe / Kandaoe Chimblri
  • He Tells Tales of Meroe / Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
  • 'Camel, O camel, come and fetch and carry': on two camels / Jennifer Cromwell
  • Composed of air and light: a rare survival from medieval Egypt / Carolyn Perry
  • 'To my wife, on whose toil most of my work has depended': women on excavation / Alice Stevenson
  • 'The largest and the only fully dated collection': Xia Nai and Egyptian beads / Alice Stevenson.

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