Discovery of Ancient Egypt: History, Archaeology & Ancient Texts
History, Archaeology, Hieroglyphs, and Sacred Texts of the Nile ValleyBy Arthur Gilman, George Rawlinson, Gaston Maspero, Agnes Sophia Griffith Johns, E. A. Wallis Budge
Length36h 24m
About this audiobook
Discovery of Ancient Egypt: History, Archaeology & Ancient Texts gathers historical survey, archaeological interpretation, travel-inflected description, and textual scholarship into a capacious account of Egypt's rediscovery in modern learning. Its range moves from dynastic history and monumental remains to inscriptions, religious literature, and the material conditions of excavation. Rather than presenting antiquity as static spectacle, the volume illuminates the changing evidentiary practices through which temples, tombs, papyri, and royal narratives became legible to wider audiences. The collection brings together Arthur Gilman, George Rawlinson, Gaston Maspero, Agnes Sophia Griffith Johns, and E. A. Wallis Budge, writers and scholars associated with nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Egyptology and the popularization of ancient history. Their distinct approaches reflect the period's convergence of philology, museum culture, imperial travel, archaeological fieldwork, and comparative historical inquiry. Read together, these voices reveal both the formative achievements and the interpretive assumptions of modern Egyptological scholarship, enriching the reader's sense of how ancient Egypt was constructed as an object of study. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking multiple entrances into Egyptian civilization and the history of its study. It offers valuable context for students, historians, and general readers alike, while fostering a productive dialogue between artifacts, texts, and the scholars who interpreted them.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length36 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 28, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1History of Ancient Greece and Roman Empire: 24 Essential Books
2Discovery of Ancient Egypt: History, Archaeology & Ancient 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
10Chapter II. Religious Architecture.
11Chapter III. Tombs.
12Chapter IV. Painting and Sculpture.
13Chapter V. The Industrial Arts. (pt. 1)
14Chapter V. The Industrial Arts. (pt. 2)
15Literature of Ancient Egypt
16Chapter II The Pyramid Texts
17Chapter III Stories of Magicians Who Lived Under the Ancient Empire
18Chapter IV The Book of the Dead
19Chapter V Books of the Dead of the Græco-Roman Period
20Chapter VI The Egyptian Story of the Creation
21Chapter VII Legends of the Gods
22Chapter VIII Historical Literature
23Chapter IX Autobiographical Literature
24Chapter X Tales of Travel and Adventure
25Chapter XI Fairy Tales
26Chapter XII Egyptian Hymns to the Gods
27Chapter XIII Moral and Philosophical Literature
28Chapter XIV Egyptian Poetical Compositions
29Chapter XV Miscellaneous Literature
30Primary Sources for the History of Ancient Egypt
31The Book of the Dead
32The Rosetta Stone
33The Book of Egypt: Histories of Herodotus (pt. 1)
34The Book of Egypt: Histories of Herodotus (pt. 2)
35Hymn to the Nile
36The Laments of Isis and Nephthys
37Great Hymn to Aten
38Hymn to Osiris-Sokar
39The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep
40The Victory of Ramses II Over the Khita
41An Account of the Battle of Megiddo
42Charm for the Protection of a Child
43Stories & Poems of Ancient Egypt
44Tale of the Doomed Prince
45The Magic Book
46The Dialogue of a Misanthrope with His Own Soul
47Ancient Egyptian Love Poems
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