Ancient Nubia

african kingdoms on The Nile

For most of the modern world, ancient Nubia seems an unknown and enigmatic land. Only a handful of archaeologists have studied its history or unearthed the Nubian cities, temples, and cemeteries that once dotted the landscape of southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Nubia's remote ...

Egyptian magic

the quest for Thoth's Book of Secrets

The ancient Egyptians were firmly convinced of the importance of magic, which was both a source of supernatural wisdom and a means of affecting one's own fate. The gods themselves used it for creating the world, granting mankind magical powers as an aid to ...

Christianity and monasticism in upper Egypt

Vol.2: Nag Hammadi-Esna

Christianity and monasticism have flourished in Upper (southern) Egypt from as early as the fourth century until the present day. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization along the Nile Valley from Nag ...

Babylon of Egypt

the archaeology of Old Cairo and the origins of the city

This title focuses on an archaeological investigation into the ancient nucleus of medieval and modern Cairo. This book presents a history of Old Cairo based on new archaeological evidence gathered between 2000 and 2006 during a major project to lower the groundwater level affecting the ...

Amarna Sunset

Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter- Reformation

Offers an account of the return to orthodoxy after Akhenaten's revolution. This study tells the story of the decline and fall of the Pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century BC. Beginning at the regime's high-point in his Year 12, it ...

Atlas of egyptian art

Introduction by Maarten J. Raven; Captions by Olaf E. Kaper Prisse d´Avennes produced one of the most beautiful modern books on ancient Egyptian art. His monumetal work, first published in Paris over a ten-year period between 1868 and 1878, includes the only surviving record ...

The Temple of Edfu

a guide by an Ancient Egyptian Priest

This is the oldest and most authentic guide to an ancient Egyptian temple ever written - its author was an ancient Egyptian priest who lived in the first century B.C., under the last kings of the Ptolemaic dynasty, when the construction and decoration of the ...

Egyptology at the dawn of the twenty-first century

proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, 2000. Vol I: Archaeology

Sufism

the essentials

Coptic monasteries

Egypt's monastic art and architecture