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In c.1341 BCE, a baby boy was born in a city on the banks of the Nile River, roughly 250-miles north of Luxor. His name was Tutankhamun, or 'King Tut', the boy king. He was not destined to become pharaoh, yet, at the age of nine, Tutankhamun was, made king. Alas, his reign and his life were, cut cruelly short. He died aged only 18 or so in about 1323 BCE.
Almost 3,300 years later, in November 1922, English archaeologist, Howard Carter, discovered...
2) Dioses egipcios: Una fascinante guía de Atum, Horus, Set, Isis, Anubis, Ra, Thoth, Sejmet, Geb, Hath
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Conozca a los dioses egipciosEs tentador ver la antigua religión egipcia como algo relativamente estático, con un solo panteón cuya naturaleza y actividades no cambiaron a lo largo de los tres mil años del período dinástico. Sin embargo, nada está más lejos de la realidad. A lo largo de la historia egipcia, vemos que los dioses que habían sido favorecidos fueron dejados de lado o sus roles fueron alterados para dar paso a dioses cuyos cultos...
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Lonely Planet's Egypt is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Discover the pyramids of Giza, cruise the Nile, and dive in the Red Sea; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Egypt and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet's Egypt Travel Guide:
Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are...
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Disfrute de Fascinantes Historias sobre Dioses, Diosas, Monstruos y MortalesPor lo que sabemos de historia, Egipto, junto con Sumeria, construyeron los cimientos de la civilización. El Creciente Fértil, que se extendía del Valle del Nilo hasta los ríos gemelos de Mesopotamia, nos ofrecieron la primera visión del hombre organizado. Pero... ¿cómo se organizaba? En primer lugar, la escritura surgió en ambos lugares: los jeroglíficos en Egipto...
5) Mitología egipcia: Mitos egipcios fascinantes de los dioses, diosas y criaturas legendarias egipcias
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Una fascinante colección de los mitos egipcios más popularesPuede ser difícil encontrar una colección completa y atractiva de mitos egipcios teniendo en cuenta el número de versiones y traducciones disponibles. Sin embargo, no busque más, ya que ha encontrado un libro fascinante que incluye muchos de los mitos egipcios más populares en un formato fácil de leer.
Este libro está dividido en cuatro partes. La primera, titulada "Narrativas cosmológicas",...
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This book concerns the origins, structure, purpose, meaning, and significance of libation, developments and change within the ritual, and its distribution in the Afrikan world. Libation is a liquid offering by and behalf of all humanity, those living and those yet-to-be-born, to the Creator, to other divinities, to ancestors, and to the environment. Through this ritual Afrikans affirm and re-establish cosmic balance, interconnection and interdependence:...
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This fascinating account of ancient Egypt presents predynastic civilization through Ptolemies: social and political structure, daily life, international relations, religion and cult of the dead, arts and crafts, science and medicine, sacred writing, and much more. Includes full reference to recent excavations. Features 48 plates.
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The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor is the earliest known surviving story of a shipwrecked sailor, and as such is the forerunner of many stories of nautical adventure encountering strange magical creatures, from Homer's Odyssey to Sinbad the Sailor. In a broader sense, it is generally considered the oldest piece of Egyptian fiction to survive to the present. Only one copy has been found to date, a single papyrus manuscript that resides at the Hermitage...
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Ahmose pen-Nekhbet was a major figure during the early years of the New Kingdom, who, like his contemporary Ahmose pen-Ebana, appears to have been from the city of El Kab, where his tomb was found. His autobiography is much shorter than pen-Ebana's autobiography, however, is also far more damaged. This translation follows the general reconstruction that most Egyptologists agree on, however, sections of the original text may have been lost entirely...
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The life of Harkhuf is one of the better-documented lives from the era of the Old Kingdom era of Egyptian history. Harkhuf lived during the reigns of kings Merenre I and Pepi II of the 6th Dynasty, at the same time as the more famous Weni, whom he may have mentioned in his autobiography. Like Weni, he is primarily known from the inscriptions on his tomb, however, unlike Weni, he only seems to have had one tomb. On the front of his tomb were carved...
12) Egypt
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The current timeline of dynastic Egypt is impossible. Believing in it means endorsing the idea the Hyksos were time-travelers, and that the Egyptians were technologically a thousand years behind their major trading partners in Mesopotamia during the Middle Kingdom. It also is not what the ancient Egyptians actually recorded, so believing it means believing that modern Egyptologists know more about ancient Egypt than the ancient Egyptians themselves....
13) The Life of Weni
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The life of Weni, also called Uni, is one of the best-documented lives from the era of the Old Kingdom era of Egyptian history. Weni experienced significant upward mobility during the reigns of kings Teti, Userkare, Pepi I, and Merenre I, and as a result had a second tomb prepared for himself later in life, resulting in two of his tombs surviving to the present. His tombs were not extravagant like the king's pyramids of the era, and seem to have generally...
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During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom crumbled in the face of internal crises and external pressures, ultimately reversed by invaders from Nubia and consolidated by natives of the Nile Delta following a series of Assyrian invasions.
Much of this era remains obscure, with little consensus among Egyptologists. Against this background, Aidan Dodson...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Toutânkhamon en moins d'une heure!
Qui ignore encore ce qu'est la malédiction de Toutânkhamon, qui précipitera le décès de certains membres de l'équipe ayant découvert le tombeau du pharaon? Quels merveilleux trésors son tombeau renferme-t-il? Mais surtout, qui était vraiment Toutânkhamon, ce pharaon à la santé fragile décédé prématurément?
Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Tutankamón, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir cómo transcurre la vida de Tutankamón, un niño de salud frágil que se convierte en faraón antes de cumplir los diez años y cuya corta vida se ve afectada por numerosas enfermedades
• Profundizar en sus principales logros, como la restauración...
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Travel Tales: Egypt, Morocco & North Africa Is a collection of travel stories of one of the travel world's most mystical sought-after destinations-the top of Africa, also known as the 'Dark Continent.' Certainly among the world's handful of the most eagerly sought out places on Earth to visit, without a doubt, the pyramids in Egypt, the souks of Morocco, and the lure of the Sahara on camelback loom large in the minds of armchair travelers and would-be...
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In the 1960s the construction of the Aswan High Dam occasioned the forced displacement of a large part of the Nubian population. Beginning in 1960, anthropologists at the American University in Cairo's Social Research Center undertook a survey of the Nubians to be moved and those already outside their historic homeland. The goal was to record and analyze Nubian culture and social organization, to create a record for the future, and to preserve a body...
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In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region crossed and mixed racial and ethnic lines. Fair-skinned Circassian men and women were as vulnerable to enslavement in the Nile Valley as were teenagers from Sudan or Ethiopia. Tell This in My Memory opens up a new window...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life and legacy of Tutankhamun in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and legacy of Tutankhamun, Egypt's boy pharaoh. In spite of a brief reign that was cut short when the young sovereign died at the age of just 20, Tutankhamun is now one of the most famous pharaohs of all time and has captivated the popular imagination. His...
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