Without knowledge of the hieroglyphic images incorporated in the art, much remains obscure.

    Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its moments of humor, affection, and anger. She witnessed striking changes, both cultural and economic, and she recorded the stories of the women. Writing Women's Worlds is Abu-Lughod's telling of those stories; it is also about what happens in bringing the stories to others.As the new teller of these tales Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography. She explores how the telling of these stories challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women. Writing Women's Worlds is thus at once a vivid set of stories and a study in the politics of representation.

    Stunning photographs and illustrations, plus detailed cutaways, maps and diagrams.

    -- Examine the everyday lives of the world's oldest cultures and civilizations-- Filled with colorful pictures, maps and diagrams-- World History Dates covers 9000BC to the present day

    A young girl who serves in the temple of the cat goddess and the High Priest are sentenced to travel through the Netherworld, where they must pass through twelve locked gates to enter the Hall of Judgement. Includes hieroglyphics decoder. Full color.

    It brings the reader into an active personal relationship with the Goddess in her various forms, with the Egyptian setting of the Temple of Isis as a main focus. Also included are theoretical and practical exercises in the form of guided meditations. The author is the founder and facilitator of a teaching centre within the Fellowship of Isis and a contributor to "Voices of the Goddess" edited by Caitlin Matthews.

    Exceptional for his range, the volume portrays Egyptian life from birth and childhood through education, love and marriage, occupations, war, and finally the soul’s journey to the netherworld. A particular strength is the coverage of anatomical material and medical texts. Other topics include the role of women, fashion, dance and music, agriculture, crafts, and construction of the pyramids and tombs. This in-depth portrait draws on the complete spectrum of sources: artifacts from tombs and settlement sites; inscribed potsherds and ostraca as well as papyri; material from the excavation of homes, shrines, and tomb chapels; reliefs and wall-paintings.

    However, until now the marvelous story of Carter’s quest for Tutankhamun and its culmination in his unearthing of the intact, treasure-filled tomb has been told without a reliable account of the man behind the discovery and the myths that have surrounded it. Carter's legendary discovery in the Valley of the Kings and his painstaking clearance of the intact royal burial are the topic of this definitive biography.

    Mace in 1928 was linked to the popular, but fabricated, curse of Tutankhamun. Using family archives, this book traces the contribution made by Mace to the Tutankhamun expedition and describes the daily life among the community of archaeologists.

    Second edition published 1992, reprinted in 2002 and 2011. In this book Professor Tylecote presents a unique introduction to the history of metallurgy from the earliest times to the present. The development of metallurgy skills and techniques of different civilisations, and the connection between them, are carefully chartered. This volume is concerned with such important topics as the rise of metallurgy in the Near East and the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe."

    Book by Hornung, Erik

    

    Presents a trip to the prehistoric caves of France, the pyramids of Egypt, the Maya temples of Mexico, and other ancient wonders of the world.