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January 11, 2024

An Egyptian Journal

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Free Download William.: Golding, "An Egyptian Journal"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0571125476 | EPUB | pages: 207 | 9.0 mb
William Golding’s interest in ancient Egypt has previously been expressed in two essays, and in the novella "The Scorpion God". This account covers his journey down the Nile in today’s Egypt. He recalls his trip honestly and humorously, and shares his feelings about Egypt past and present.

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January 8, 2024

The Triumph and Trade of Egyptian Objects in Rome Collecting Art in the Ancient Mediterranean (Issn)

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Free Download The Triumph and Trade of Egyptian Objects in Rome: Collecting Art in the Ancient Mediterranean (Issn) by Stephanie Pearson
English | April 6, 2021 | ISBN: 3110700409 | 250 pages | MOBI | 30 Mb
From gleaming hardstone statues to bright frescoes, the unexpected and often spectacular Egyptian objects discovered in Roman Italy have long presented an interpretive challenge. How they shaped and were shaped by religion, politics, and identity formation has now been well researched. But one crucial function of these objects remains to be explored: their role as precious goods in a collector’s economy. The Romans imported and recreated Egyptian goods in the most opulent materials available – gold, gems, expensive wood, ivory, luxurious textiles – and displayed them like true treasures. This is due in part to the way Romans encountered these items, as argued in this book: first as dazzling spolia from the war against Cleopatra, then as costly wares exchanged over the expanding Roman trade routes. In this respect, Romans treated Egyptian art surprisingly similarly to Greek art. By examining the concrete mechanisms through which Egyptian objects were acquired and displayed in Rome, this book offers a new understanding of this impressive material at the crossroads of Hellenistic, Roman, and Egyptian culture.

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January 8, 2024

Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination

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Free Download Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination by Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld
English | November 1, 2019 | ISBN: 0812251571 | 256 pages | MOBI | 7.76 Mb
Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and distinctive features of ancient Egyptian visual culture. For both the literate minority of Egyptians and the vast illiterate majority of the population, hieroglyphs possessed a potent symbolic value that went beyond their capacity to render language visible. For nearly three thousand years, the hieroglyphic script remained closely bound to indigenous notions of religious and cultural identity.

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January 7, 2024

The Angel The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel

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Free Download The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel by Uri Bar-Joseph, Neil Shah, Tantor Audio
English | 2017 | ISBN: B071D1QPKV | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 11 hours and 33 minutes + EPUB | 281 Mb
As the son-in-law of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and a close advisor to his successor, Anwar Sadat, Ashraf Marwan had access to the deepest secrets of the country’s government. But he himself had a secret: he was a spy for the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. Under the codename "The Angel", Marwan turned Egypt into an open book for the Israeli intelligence services and, by alerting the Mossad in advance of the joint Egyptian-Syrian attack on Yom Kippur, saved Israel from a devastating defeat.
Drawing on meticulous research and interviews, Uri Bar-Joseph pieces together Marwan’s story. In the process, he sheds new light on this volatile time in modern Egyptian and Middle Eastern history, culminating in 2011’s Arab Spring. The Angel chronicles the discord within the Israeli government that brought down Prime Minister Golda Meir – but the story doesn’t end there.
Marwan eluded Egypt’s ruthless secret services for many years until somebody talked. Five years later, his body was found in the garden of his London apartment building. Police suspected he had been thrown from his fifth-floor balcony, and thanks to explosive new evidence, Bar-Joseph can finally reveal who, how, and why.

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January 5, 2024

Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends (Egypt)

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Free Download Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends (Egypt) by Lewis Spence
English | July 5th, 2013 | ISBN: 0486265250 | 448 pages | True EPUB | 12.64 MB
"Let us walk in the gloom of the pyramids, in the cool shadows of ruined temples, aye, through the tortuous labyrinth of the Egyptian mind itself, trusting that by virtue of the light we carry we shall succeed in unravelling to some extent the age-long enigma of this mystic land." – from Chapter One.

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