ANCIENT EGYPT: History, Archaeology, Literature, Mythology & Ancient Egyptian Texts
Pharaohs, Pyramids, Mythology, Hieroglyphs, and Sacred TextsBy George Rawlinson, Arthur Gilman, Gaston Maspero, Agnes Sophia Griffith Johns, E. A. Wallis Budge
Length47h 14m
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Ancient Egypt: History, Archaeology, Literature, Mythology & Ancient Egyptian Texts assembles a capacious nineteenth- and early twentieth-century encounter with the Nile valley, joining historical narrative, archaeological interpretation, religious study, literary analysis, and translated primary materials. Its range moves from dynastic succession and monumental remains to funerary imagination, divine cosmologies, and the textual record of ancient life. Particularly valuable is the volume's juxtaposition of synthetic histories with Egyptian texts themselves, allowing artifacts, inscriptions, and myths to complicate modern reconstructions of the past. The collection brings together George Rawlinson, Arthur Gilman, Gaston Maspero, Agnes Sophia Griffith Johns, and E. A. Wallis Budge, figures associated with the formative scholarship through which Egyptology reached broad English-reading audiences. Their varied methods reflect the era's expanding museum collections, excavation culture, philological enterprise, and comparative study of ancient religion. Read together, these voices reveal both the achievements and the interpretive assumptions of classical Egyptological writing, while presenting Egypt as a historical civilization and a living archive of language, ritual, and memory. Recommended for students, general readers, and scholars of reception alike, this volume offers an unusually broad entrance into ancient Egyptian studies. It rewards attentive reading by placing historical explanation beside archaeological evidence and translated traditions, fostering dialogue among distinct genres, methods, and perspectives.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length47 hrs 14 mins
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Publish dateDec 23, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Ancient Egypt: History, Mythology & Literature
2ANCIENT EGYPT: History, Archaeology, Literature, Mythology & Ancient Egyptian Texts
3Historical Books
4History of Ancient Egypt (pt. 1)
5History of Ancient Egypt (pt. 2)
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6History of Ancient Egypt (pt. 3)
7History of Ancient Egypt (pt. 4)
8History of Ancient Egypt (pt. 5)
9Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
102. THE TEMPLE. (pt. 1)
112. THE TEMPLE. (pt. 2)
122. THE TEMPLE. (pt. 3)
13Literature of Ancient Egypt (pt. 1)
14Literature of Ancient Egypt (pt. 2)
15Literature of Ancient Egypt (pt. 3)
16Literature of Ancient Egypt (pt. 4)
17Mythology of Ancient Egypt (pt. 1)
18Mythology of Ancient Egypt (pt. 2)
19Mythology of Ancient Egypt (pt. 3)
20Mythology of Ancient Egypt (pt. 4)
21Mythology of Ancient Egypt (pt. 5)
22Primary Sources for the History of Ancient Egypt
23The Book of the Dead
24The Rosetta Stone
25The Book of Egypt: Histories of Herodotus (pt. 1)
26The Book of Egypt: Histories of Herodotus (pt. 2)
27Hymn to the Nile
28The Laments of Isis and Nephthys
29Great Hymn to Aten
30Hymn to Osiris-Sokar
31The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep
32The Victory of Ramses II Over the Khita
33An Account of the Battle of Megiddo
34Charm for the Protection of a Child
35Stories & Poems of Ancient Egypt
36Tale of the Doomed Prince
37The Magic Book
38The Dialogue of a Misanthrope with His Own Soul
39Ancient Egyptian Love Poems
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