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  • Hammurabi of Babylon

    by Dominique Charpin ...
    Hammurabi was the sixth king of ancient Babylon and also its greatest. Expanding the role and influence of the Babylonian city-state into an imperium that crushed its rivals and dominated the entire fertile plain of Mesopotamia, Hammurabi (who ruled c. 1792-1750 BCE) transformed a minor kingdom into the regional superpower of its age. But this energetic monarch, whose geopolitical and military ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • How to be an Assyriologist?

    Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 2 October 2014

    by Dominique Charpin ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Unlike works inherited from Greek or Roman Antiquity, writings from Mesopotamian civilization all come from excavations. Assyriologists work with clay tablets engraved with cuneiform characters. They piece together fragments of texts and organize them chronologically and geographically to gradually construct not only a political but also a social, economic and cultural history of Mesopotamia. The ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Auf zum Feenteich!

    by Isabella Baer-Eiselt, Sophie Charpin, Kaz ...
    In ihrem Dorf im Wald von Fontainebleau wollen Helena und Fabio an einem grauen Tag fernsehen. Aber ihr Papa hat mit ihnen etwas anderes vor: einen Waldspaziergang zum Feenteich. Und dann entpuppt sich der Spaziergang als eine fantastische Reise.La version epub de ce titre est au format maquette fixed : vérifiez la compatibilité de vos appareils de lecture. ... Read more

    $8.28 CAD

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    The God's Wife of Amun (ca.740–525 BC)

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    Mariam F. Ayad explores how five women were elevated to a position of supreme religious authority. Drawing on a variety of textual, iconographic, and archaeological evidence, and containing fifty-one black and white and colour illustrations, the volume discusses this often neglected subject, placing the women within the broader context of the politically volatile, turbulent seventh and eighth ... Read more

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  • Amarna Sunrise

    Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy

    by Aidan Dodson ...
    Renown Egyptologist, Aidan Dodson, the author of Amarna Sunset, looks at how Akhenaten's experiment with monotheism beganThe latter part of the fifteenth century BC saw Egypt’s political power reach its zenith, with an empire that stretched from beyond the Euphrates in the north to much of what is now Sudan in the south. The wealth that flowed into Egypt allowed its kings to commission some of the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Riddle of the Rosetta

    How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

    by Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz ...
    A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century EuropeIn 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

    Edited by Christina Riggs ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an intricate cultural discourse involving themes that resonate today - east and west, old world and new, acculturation and shifting ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Black Athena Writes Back

    Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics

    by Martin Bernal ...
    In Black Athena Writes Back Martin Bernal responds to the passionate debates set off by the 1987 publication of his book Black Athena. Producing a shock wave of reaction from scholars, Black Athena argued that the development of Greek civilization was heavily influenced by Afroasiatic civilizations. Moreover, Bernal asserted that this knowledge had been deliberately obscured by the rampant racism ... Read more

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  • Maat Revealed, Philosophy of Justice In Ancient Egypt

    by Anna Mancini ...
    Unlike ancient Rome, Egypt did not transmit any legal system to us, but rather an idea of justice our modern minds can hardly understand. In the ancient Egyptian world, almost all the texts and inscriptions speak of justice. All the texts of wisdom teach that one has to conform to Maat, an obscure and omnipresent concept that Egyptologists have translated into the expression "Goddess of Truth and ... Read more

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  • The Archaeology of Elam

    Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State

    by D. T. Potts ...
    Series series Cambridge World Archaeology
    Elam was an important state in southwestern Iran from the third millennium BC to the appearance of the Persian Empire and beyond. Less well-known than its neighbors in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, the Levant or Egypt, it was nonetheless a region of extraordinary cultural vitality. This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam's many identities through both archaeological and written ... Read more

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  • The Unknown Tutankhamun

    by Marianne Eaton-Krauss ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Egyptology
    The reign of Tutankhamun was of major significance in the history of ancient Egypt. Following Howard Carter's discovery of the king's tomb in 1922, the story of the boy who became Pharaoh, died young and was buried in splendor at the height of Egyptian civilization captivated generations. But there exists a wide discrepancy between that saga and what scholarship has discovered in the last few ... Read more

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  • Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History

    by Marc Van De Mieroop ...
    Series series Approaching the Ancient World
    Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History discusses how the abundant Mesopotamian cuneiform text sources can be used for the study of various aspects of history: political, social, economic and gender. Marc Van De Mieroop provides a student-friendly introduction to the subject and:* criticises disciplinary methodologies which are often informed by a desire to write a history of events* ... Read more

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