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By: Prof Peter Parsons

ISBN: 9780753822333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2007
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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In 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a low sand-covered mound a hundred miles south of Cairo. When they had finally finished, ten years later, they had uncovered 500 000 fragments of papyri. Shipped back to Oxford, the meticulous and scholarly


(Hardback)

By: Astrid Madimba

ISBN: 9781529376784
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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IT'S A CONTINENT is the illuminating history book that aims to unravel misconceptions and celebrate Africa's rich and diverse history, one country at a time.


(Paperback)

By: David Frankfurter

ISBN: 9780691070544
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Examines the complex fate of classical Egyptian religion during the centuries from the period when Christianity first made its appearance in Egypt to when it became the region's dominant religion. This book describes how an ancient culture maintained itself while also being transformed through influences such as Hellenism, and Roman government.


(Paperback)

By: Ahmed Osman

ISBN: 9781591430223
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2003
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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Drawing on a wealth of detailed evidence from Egyptian, biblical, and Koranic sources, Osman proposes that Joseph in the Bible might in reality also be Yuya, "a father of pharaoh."


(Paperback)

By: Michael Gomez

ISBN: 9780691196824
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In a radically new account of the importance of early Africa in global history, Gomez traces how Islam's growth in West Africa, along with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire.


(Hardback)

By: Roger Le Tourneau

ISBN: 9780691648644
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)

By: Roger Le Tourneau

ISBN: 9780691621814
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)

By: Ian Shaw

ISBN: 9780715631188
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book discusses ancient Egyptian technology and innovation in a wide archaeological, social and historical context.


(Paperback)

By: Sally-Ann Ashton

ISBN: 9781853996733
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Why are we still interested in Cleopatra She has that eternally attractive combination of sexual allure, political power - even divine status - and personal wealth. She had by any standards an eventful life and an unforgettable death.


(Hardback)

By: Robert Steven Bianchi

ISBN: 9780313325014
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Until recently little was known about ancient Nubia and day-to-day lives of the Nubian people aside from knowing it was a civilization contemporary with, distinct from, and living under the shadow of Ancient Egypt.


(Paperback)

By: Colin Everard

ISBN: 9781350202122
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Roger S. Bagnall

ISBN: 9780691010960
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Brings together information pertaining to the society, economy, and culture of a province important to understanding the entire eastern part of the later Roman Empire. This title focuses on Egypt from the accession of Diocletian in 284 to the middle of the fifth century.


(Paperback)

By: Joyce Tyldesley

ISBN: 9780563493815
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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The obsession with anything and everything Egyptian has inspired many to dedicate their lives to the search for treasure in Egypt's sands. This work follows these real-life Indiana Joneses in their quest for the monuments, tombs, and artefacts that have unlocked many of secrets of this civilization.


(Hardback)

Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1974
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Raffaella Cribiore

ISBN: 9780691122526
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents a study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. This book describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned, and what the curriculum comprised.


(Paperback)

By: Lynn Meskell

ISBN: 9780691120584
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Much of the literature on ancient Egypt centers on pharaohs or on elite conceptions of the afterlife. Drawing on the archaeological, iconographic, and textual evidence from the earlier years of the New Kingdom, this book examines how ordinary ancient Egyptians lived their lives, from birth to death.


(Paperback)

By: Nic Fields

ISBN: 9781846031069
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Pharaohs of Egypt have captured the imagination of readers throughout the ages. Their existence and power have almost taken on a mythical status. This book reveals the truth behind these myths and explores the lives of the ordinary soldiers who were the might of Middle Kingdom Egypt.


(Hardback)

By: Michael Rice

ISBN: 9781845111168
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Explores a little-known aspect of life in Ancient Egypt, celebrating the Egyptians as the first known civilisation to have formed the special bond with the dog that persists as the most remarkable of human-animal relationships. This book provides a fresh insight into the development of mankind's remarkable bond with the domesticated dog.


(Paperback, New edition)

By: Byron E. Shafer

ISBN: 9781850439455
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A comprehensive survey of ancient Egyptian temples and rituals associated with their use. Shafer - a renowned Egyptologist - covers the entire pharaonic era, from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period, and challenges the idea that temples were either 'mortuary' or 'divine', showing instead that their functions were varied.


(Hardback)

Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1971
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An historical and archeological study of North Africa and her provinces.


(Paperback, New edition)

By: Stuart Munro-Hay

ISBN: 9781845112486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From ancient texts to local stories, from the Bible to the writings of sixteenth and seventeenth century Jesuits, this work traces the extraordinary legend of Ethiopia's Ark in what is a triumph of historical detective work. It scrutinises every mention of the Ark in Ethiopian records and tests every theory.


(Hardback)

By: Stanley Burstein

ISBN: 9780313325274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Ambitious, intelligent, and desired by men and emperors, Cleopatra VII came to power at a time when Roman and Egyptian interests increasingly tended to concern the same object: the Egyptian Empire itself.


(Hardback)

By: Michael Gomez

ISBN: 9780691177427
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)

By: Franois-Xavier Fauvelle

ISBN: 9780691217147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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