Bøger om Ancient Egypt

Egypten er under angreb, Farao Tamose er hårdt såret, byen Luxor er omringet, og alt håb lader til at være ude. Eksslaven Taita er nu general for Tamoses hær, og da en gammel allieret melder sig på Egyptens side, vender heldet, og den egyptiske hær kan fejre sejren. Men da Taita vender tilbage til Luxor, bliver han mærket som forræder. Farao Tamose er død, en ny farao har besteget tronen, og en giftig æra er begyndt. FARAO er et episk drama fra en svunden tid. ?Den bedste historiske romanforfatter.? - Stephen King

Det nye rige er syvende bind i Wilbur Smiths populære serie, der foregår i det gamle Egypten. Senest er kommet Ørkenguden og Farao.Hui lever et fortryllende liv i Lahun. Som yndlingssønnen og den kommende hersker er hans skæbne fastlagt. Men bag den smukke facade foregår et infamt magtspil og ondskaben kender ingen grænser. Huis stedmor, den store troldkvinde Ipsetnofret, er drevet af jalousi og magtsyge og har sammen med Qen, Huis bror, orkestreret faderens undergang.Snart må Hui kæmpe den største kamp for selveste Egyptens hjerte. Og han må vælge sin livsbane - vil han blive en helt i den gamle verden eller en hersker i et nyt rige?

Ny bog i Egypten-serien fra adventure-mesteren, Wilbur Smith. EN USTOPPELIG FJENDE. EN CIVILISATION PÅ RANDEN AF KOLLAPS. EN FAREFULD MISSION.I over halvtreds år har Egypten eksisteret i skyggen af krig og ødelæggelse under det blodtørstige og barbariske Hyksos-folk. Det er desperate tider, men en tapper modstandsgruppe med den mægtige Taita i spidsen kæmper endnu imod.Piay, Taitas unge protegé, er blevet en uforlignelig spion, og han rejser mod nord til Mykene på en farlig mission - gennem Hyksos-folkets områder og over det store hav - for at finde allierede til kampen for Egypten. Situationen bliver stadigt mere farlig og rigets skæbne balancerer på en knivsæg. Vil Piay lykkes med sin mission, eller vil dette betyde enden for Egyptens storhed for evigt?

This volume introduces latest research on the necropolis of ancient Asyut and a broad spectrum of different topics. It opens with a deep insight in the long history of the ancient town of Asyut and its different functions throughout history, followed by a contribution highlighting the connections between the city and the oases of Kharga and Dakhla via the Darb el Arba'in, the ancient caravan route through the Western Desert. Research on the temple of Wepwawet, chief deitiy of Asyut, closes the section on the ancient town itself. Turning to the necropolis on Gebel Asyut al-gharbi, an as yet unpublished tomb of a high official of the late 11th/early 12th Dynasty is presented, followed by contributions on material culture including an in-depth analysis of a statue head found during recent fieldwork, an iconographical study on the depiction of wedjat-eyes on Asyuti coffins of the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom; the detailed analysis of a hitherto unpublished coffin and a study on the "Book of the Two Ways" inscribed on another coffin from Asyut. Objects discussed include wooden models and their correlation with wall decoration, latest finds of pottery offering trays and first results of the examination of Asyuti stone offering tables. New Kingdom and Late Period finds are discussed in an article with new information on ushebtis from the collections of Sayed Bey Khashaba and the Museo Gregoriano in Città del Vaticano, and in a typological analysis of faience chalices with a focus on recent finds of The Asyut Project. The volume closes with a hitherto unpublished copy of spell 72 of the Book of the Dead that is inscribed on the early Ptolemaic mummy cartonnage of Padiamun found during fieldwork and an article that details Christian tomb stelae and the special local Asyuti formulae used for inscribing them.

This volume unites scholars of classical epigraphy, papyrology, and literature to analyze the documentary habit in the Roman Empire. Texts like inscriptions and letters have gained importance in classical scholarship, but there has been limited analysis of the imaginative and sociological dimensions of the ancient document. Individual chapters investigate the definition of the document in ancient thought, and how modern understandings of documentation may (mis)shape scholarly approaches to documentary sources in antiquity. Contributors reexamine familiar categories of ancient documents through the lenses of perception and function, and reveal where the modern understanding of the document departs from ancient conceptions of documentation. The boundary between literary genres and documentary genres of writing appears more fluid than prior scholarship had allowed. Compared to modern audiences, inhabitants of the Roman Empire used a more diverse range of both non-textual and textual forms of documentation, and they did so with a more active, questioning attitude. The interdisciplinary approach to the "mentality" of documentation in this volume advances beyond standard discussions of form, genre, and style to revisit the document through the eyes of Greco-Roman readers and viewers.

Can time exist independently of consciousness? In antiquity this question was often framed as an enquiry into the relationship of time and soul. Aristotle cautiously suggested that time could not exist without a soul that is counting it. This proposal was controversially debated among his commentators. The present book offers an account of this debate beginning from Aristotle's own statement of the problem in Book IV of the Physics. Subsequent chapters discuss Aristotle's Peripatetic followers, Boethus of Sidon and Alexander of Aphrodisias; his Neoplatonic readers, Plotinus and Simplicius; and early Christian authors, Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine. At the centre of the debate stood the relation between the subjective time in the soul and the objective time of the cosmos. Both could be seen as united in the world soul as the seat of subjective time on a cosmic scale. But no solution to the problem was final. No theory gained general acceptance. The book shows the fascinating variety and plurality of ideas about time and soul throughout antiquity. Throughout antiquity, the problem of time and soul remained as intriguing as it proved intractable.