In 'AUS MEHEMED ALIS REICH: Ägypten und der Sudan um 1840' beschreibt Hermann von Pückler-Muskau eindrucksvoll seine Reise durch Ägypten und den Sudan im Jahr 1840.
Fritz Mauthners Werk "Hypatia von Alexandria: Historischer Roman" taucht tief in die antike Welt ein und erzählt die faszinierende Geschichte von Hypatia, einer herausragenden Mathematikerin und Philosophin, die im 4.
Harrisons' "e;Religion of Ancient Greece"e; is a symbol of the intellectual progress of the early 20th century as the formerly hegemonic importance of Rome gave way to interpreting and studying religions based on older and localized archaeological remains and prior analysis from deep antiquity.
After more than fifty years since the last publication, the cuneiform texts relating to the treatment of the loss of male sexual desire and vigor in Mesopotamia are collected in this volume.
This volume is the first in a new series of editions of Coptic-language "e;magical"e; manuscripts from Egypt, written on papyrus, ostraca, parchment, and paper, and dating to between the fourth and twelfth centuries CE.
In the current revival of studies on Alexander the Great, literature has until now neglected – also because of the scarcity of testimonies – its ‘poetic’ side.
The concept of news that we have today is not a modern invention, but rather a social and cultural institution that has been passed down to us by the Greeks as a legacy.
This book explores the function and socio-cultural significance of rural bathhouses, seeking to redefine our understanding of the relationships between these buildings and the identities of the communities residing in the countryside of Roman Britain.
This book explores disability across time and space-from 'ancient Egypt' as a culture to Egyptology as a contemporary field-to go beyond simply identifying disability, encouraging readers to thoughtfully consider the history of disabled people in ancient Egypt and Egyptology.
This book explores disability across time and space-from 'ancient Egypt' as a culture to Egyptology as a contemporary field-to go beyond simply identifying disability, encouraging readers to thoughtfully consider the history of disabled people in ancient Egypt and Egyptology.
This book traces the formation of the archaeological site of Carthage and how it re-emerged in the minds of European antiquarians and travellers in the early modern world.
The Wana people of Morowali accept the experiences of pain, illness and loss and transform them into something positive: rituals that celebrate life, friendship and the community.
The Wana people of Morowali accept the experiences of pain, illness and loss and transform them into something positive: rituals that celebrate life, friendship and the community.
This book traces the formation of the archaeological site of Carthage and how it re-emerged in the minds of European antiquarians and travellers in the early modern world.
A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking presents a rereading and rethinking of Greek philosophy in an attempt to retrieve an essential thread in Greek thinking that has been covered over for many centuries - beginning with the late Greeks, then Christianity, and then rationalism - and misrepresented by mistranslations from the seventeenth century onward .
A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking presents a rereading and rethinking of Greek philosophy in an attempt to retrieve an essential thread in Greek thinking that has been covered over for many centuries - beginning with the late Greeks, then Christianity, and then rationalism - and misrepresented by mistranslations from the seventeenth century onward .
James Mooney's 'The Calendar History of Kiowa Indians (Illustrated Edition)' is a detailed and insightful exploration of the Kiowa tribe's rich cultural history as reflected through their calendars and time-keeping systems.
An archaeological exploration of the role of creativity and invention in the ancient Maya civilizationDrawing on archaeological findings from the Maya lowlands, War Owl Falling shows how innovation and creativity led to social change in ancient societies.
The belief that dead people could assume non-human forms is attested in Egyptian texts of all periods, from the Old Kingdom down to Graeco-Roman times.
The present volume collects current research on manuscripts written in the demotic language, which have recently been discovered in excavations or which can be found in museums worldwide.
This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the 16th century.
This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the 16th century.
In 'Burial Mounds in the North (Illustrated),' Cyrus Thomas delves into the archaeological significance of ancient burial mounds in the northern regions of America.
Script Switching in Roman Egypt studies the hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, and Old Coptic manuscripts which evidence the conventions governing script use, the domains of writing those scripts inhabited, and the shift of scripts between those domains, to elucidate the obsolescence of those scripts from their domains during the Roman Period.
