Download or read book Isambard and the Amulets of Ra written by Robert Guidi and published by Overspeed Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This fascinating tale sparks their imagination and will have them gripped" - The Independent How do you defeat evil when science is not enough? You get Magic... London, 1820: Isambard is just like any other 16-year-old engineering genius until he stumbles across a radical plot to kill the Prime Minister. Things get complicated when he discovers that the conspiracy is being led a French revolutionary supposedly executed 25 years earlier. With the help of the eccentric Candlewick sisters, whose magical shop has a habit of losing itself in the labyrinthine streets of Georgian London, Isambard defies his father and joins forces with the Bow Street Runners. But none of them have any idea about the ancient magic they are taking on. Will a home-made messaging machine, a pair of telepathic stones and a talking gas be enough to help Isambard thwart the Cato Street Conspiracy? BUY IT NOW TO FIND OUT! If you like magic, contraptions and adventure then you'll love "Isambard and the Amulets of Ra".
Download or read book The Egyptian Revival written by James Stevens Curl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully illustrated and closely argued book, a completely updated and much expanded third edition of his magisterial survey, Curl describes in lively and stimulating prose the numerous revivals of the Egyptian style from Antiquity to the present day. Drawing on a wealth of sources, his pioneering and definitive work analyzes the remarkable and persistent influence of Ancient Egyptian culture on the West. The author deftly develops his argument that the civilization of Ancient Egypt is central, rather than peripheral, to the development of much of Western architecture, art, design, and religion. Curl examines: the persistence of Egyptian motifs in design from Graeco-Roman Antiquity, through the Medieval, Baroque, and Neo-Classical periods rise of Egyptology in the nineteenth and twentieth-century manifestations of Egyptianisms prompted by the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb various aspects of Egyptianizing tendencies in the Art Deco style and afterwards. For students of art, architectural and ancient history, and those interested in western European culture generally, this book will be an inspiring and invaluable addition to the available literature.
Download or read book Welsh Folk lore a Collection of the Folk tales and Legends of North Wales written by Elias Owen and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book London written by Walter Besant and published by London : A.& C. Black. This book was released on 1911 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mrs Naunakhte Family written by Koenraad Donker van Heel and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called Will of Naunakhte (1154 BCE) has become rightly famous in Egyptology. So where did she come from and what really happened to her eight surviving children, four of whom were daughters? By carefully studying the documents mentioning members of the family and including all the material mentioning the women of the New Kingdom village of Deir al-Medina and other sources, the author once again puts to the forefront the remarkable role played by ordinary women in ancient Egypt.
Download or read book Fifty Materials That Make the World written by Ian Baker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces materials and how advances in materials result in advances in technology and our daily lives. Each chapter covers a particular material, how the material was discovered or invented, when it was first used, how this material has impacted the world, what makes the material important, how it is used today, and future applications. The list of materials covered in this book includes stone, wood, natural fibers, metals, clay, lead, iron, steel, silicon, glass, rubber, composites, polyethylene, rare earth magnet, and alloys.
Download or read book Protecting Pharaoh s Treasures written by Wafaa El-Sadeek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in Egypt's Nile Delta, Wafaa El Saddik was fascinated by the magnificent pharaonic monuments from an early age, and as a student she dreamed of conducting excavations herself and working in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. At a time when Egyptology was dominated by men, especially those with close connections to the regime, she was determined to succeed, and secured grants to study in Boston, London, and Vienna, eventually becoming the first female general director of the country's most prestigious museum. She launched the first general inventory of the museum's cellars in its more than hundred-year history, in the process discovering long-forgotten treasures, as well as confronting corruption and nepotism in the antiquities administration. In this very personal memoir, she looks back at the history of her country and asks, What happened to Egypt? Where did Nasser's bright new beginning go wrong? Why did Sadat fail to bring peace? Why did the Egyptians allow themselves to be so corrupted by Mubarak? And why was the Muslim Brotherhood able to achieve power? But her first concern remains: How can the ancient legacy of her country truly be protected?
Download or read book London Past and Present written by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book London in 1856 written by Peter Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Egypt in the Eastern Mediterranean During the Old Kingdom written by Karin Sowada and published by Saint-Paul. This book was released on 2009 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents a revised view of Egyptian foreign relations in the eastern Mediterranean during the Old Kingdom (3rd-6th Dynasties) based on an extensive analysis of old and new archaeological data, and its relationship to the well-known textual sources. The material demonstrates that while Egypt's most important relationships were with Byblos and the Lebanese coast generally, it was an active participant in the geo-political and economic affairs of the Levant throughout much of the third millennium BCE. The archaeological data shows that the foundation of these relationships was established at the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period and essentially continued until the end of the 6th Dynasty with ebbs, flows and changes of geographical and political emphasis. It is argued that, despite the paucity of textual data, the 4th Dynasty represents the apogee of Egypt's engagement in the region, a time when the centralised state was at the height of its power and control of human and economic capital. More broadly, this study shows that Egyptian interaction in the eastern Mediterranean fits the pattern of state-to-state contact between ruling elites which was underpinned by official expeditions engaged in gift and commodity exchange, diplomatic endeavours and military incursions.
Download or read book The Uan Afuda Cave Hunter Gatherer Societies of Central Sahara written by Savino Di Lernia and published by All’Insegna del Giglio. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sommario Foreword, Mario Liverani Commentary, Andrew B. Smith A preface by the Editor Savino di Lernia Acknowledgements, Savino di Lernia Why Uan Afuda? The ‘pre-pastoral’ archaeology of the Acacus and surroundings, Savino di Lernia The 1993 and 1994 excavations. Geomorphology, stratigraphic context and dates, Mauro Cremaschi and Savino di Lernia A micromorphological approach to the site formation processes, Mauro Cremaschi and Luca Trombino Rock art paintings of the ‘Round Heads’ phase, Savino di Lernia A particular form of human activity: rock markings, cupules and kettles, Savino di Lernia The cultural sequence, Savino di Lernia Archaeobotanical analysis of charcoal, wood and seeds, Lanfredo Castelletti, Elisabetta Castiglioni, Michela Cottini and Mauro Rottoli Palynological analysis of the Early Holocene sequence, Anna Maria Mercuri Preliminary study of plant impressions in pottery, Anwar A. Magid Spinning and plaiting, Alfio Maspero Human remains – deciduous and permanent teeth, Giorgio Manzi and Pietro Passarello Delayed use of resources: significance of Early Holocene Barbary sheep dung, Savino di Lernia Assembling the evidence: cultural trajectories at Uan Afuda Cave, Savino di Lernia Bibliography Colour plates Arabic Summary, Ebrahim Saleh Azzebi
Download or read book Hermopolis Magna Ashmunein written by Alan John Bayard Wace and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The admonitions of an Egyptian sage written by A.H. Gardiner and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1909 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The admonitions of an Egyptian sage from a hieratic papyrus in LeidenPap (Pap. Leiden 344 recto)
Download or read book Kinshasa written by Filip De Boeck and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading African cities into contemporary theory—reprint of a richly illustrated reference work In their internationally acclaimed publication Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City, anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Marie-Françoise Plissart provide a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality that Kinshasa presents today, but also of a second, invisible city as it exists in the mind and imagination of its inhabitants. They bring to light a mirroring reality lurking underneath the surface of the visible world and explore the constant transactions that take place between these two levels in Kinshasa’s urban scape. With the exhibition that accompanied the release of their Kinshasa book, the authors won a Golden Lion at the 11th International Architecture Bienniale in Venice, 2004. This beautifully illustrated publication is now again made available. Based on longstanding field research, it provides insight into local social and cultural imaginaries, and thus in the imaginative ways in which local urban subjects continue to make sense of their worlds and invent cultural strategies to cope with the breakdown of urban infrastructure.
Download or read book The Hijacking of British Islam written by Denis MacEoin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Survey of Memphis written by Janine Bourriau and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a study of ceramic changes in the stratified settlement at Kom Rabia, Memphis, during the Late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period. The pottery is presented by sectors, following the archaeological narrative of Giddy's report (The Survey of Memphis VI), and quantitative analysis of a random sample taken from 73% of all contexts is used to plot ceramic changes through time. The fine points of this development are discussed in the commentary for each corpus, while Appendices 1 and 2 show the distribution of types within the sequence and of pottery within single contexts. Within the Egyptian pottery assemblage there were classes that required discussion of all occurrences and these are presented in two separate chapters: vessels with marks incised before and after firing (Chapter 12, Carla Gallorini) and large handmade oval plates with incised decoration ('fish dishes') (Chapter 13, Bettina Bader). Three further chapters discuss the non-Egyptian pottery: Nubian Pottery (Chapter 14, Janine Bourriau and Serena Giuliani); Aegean and Cypriote Fine Wares (Chapter 15, Kathryn Eriksson) and Middle Bronze Age Canaanite Jars (Chapter 16, Mary Ownby).
Download or read book The Victorian Celebration of Death written by James Stevens Curl and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Curl has fashioned an absorbing, lucid and entertaining book describing the Victorian response to the only certainty in life--death. It includes disposal of the dead, landscaped cemeteries funerals and more.
