Author: Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Keywords: nubia, rhadophis
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 2004-01-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 9774248082
ISBN-13: 9789774248085

Against the background of the high politics of Sixth Dynasty Egypt, a powerful love grows between Rhadopis, a courtesan whose ravishing beauty is unmatched in time or place, and youthful, headstrong Pharaoh Merenra, worshiped by his people as a divine presence on earth. Rhadopis comes of poor peasant stock, but her star rises until she become the most celebrated woman in the kingdom, entertaining her countless lovers, who include the most powerful men in the realm, with her dancing, singing, and stimulating intellectual conversation in her white palace on an island in the Nile. Despite the

Author: Ippolito Rosellini
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Keywords: nubia, egypt, monuments
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 2003-05
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 9774247892
ISBN-13: 9789774247897

Following the Napolenoic military campaign in Egypt (1798-1801), Europe rediscovered the ancient Egyptian civilization, and later expeditions deppened and amplified knowledge of the country’s archaeological momuments, giving birth to a new science - Egyptology.This volume recounts the era of early Egyptology at the start of the nineteenth century, and presents the ,ost beautiful plates from Rosellini’s original work made following the long expedition.

Author: Nubia Rabelo Bakker Faria
Publisher: EDUFPE
Keywords: oralidade, escrita, portuguese, relacao, cancoes, letras, das, nas
Published: 1997
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8571770077
ISBN-13: 9788571770072

Author: William Y. Adams
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
Keywords: sundanese, survey, nubiavol, parts, amp, archaeological, unesco, industries, medieval, nubia, memoirs, ceramic
Number of Pages: 663
Published: 1986-02
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0813105005
ISBN-13: 9780813105000

Authors:Aloys Grillmeier, Theresia Hainthaler,
Publisher: WJK
Keywords: church, part, alexandria, nubia, ethiopia, gregory, chalcedon, christian, tradition, vol, council, christ
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1995-01
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0664223001
ISBN-13: 9780664223007

Volume two, Part two of a history of christology from the time of the New Testament up to the year 800. This study examines the special developments in christology in the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the 6th century, and is based on sources such as polemic texts, homilies and liturgical texts.

Authors:Geoffrey Thorndike Martin, S. J. Clackson, S. G. J.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: museum, fitzwilliam, publications, cambridge, egypt, stelae, nubia
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-04-11
List price: $270.00
ISBN-10: 0521842905
ISBN-13: 9780521842907

The volume provides a detailed catalogue of 127 stelae (many funerary) deriving from the Nile Valley, now part of the Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The stelae are written in various scripts - Egyptian hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic, Carian, Greek, Coptic and early Arabic - and cover a date-range of over 4000 years. Few museums have published their complete holdings of such material, and the carefully described and translated information from these stelae throws a flood of light on the history, religion, funerary customs, art and iconography, daily life and admin

Author: Richard A. Lobban Jr.
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: historical, ancient, civilizations, eras, dictionaries, medieval, dictionary, nubia
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 0810847841
ISBN-13: 9780810847842

TheHistorical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubiacovers the period of Nubian history from the Paleolithic to the end of Medieval Christianity. It includes the rapidly expanding field of Nubian archaeology that centers ancient African history along the Nile but beyond the better-known field of Egyptology.