Download or read book Meydum and Memphis III written by William Matthew Flinders Petrie and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meydum and Memphis III Classic Reprint written by W. M. Flinders Petrie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Meydum and Memphis (III) On making a wide clearance at the bottom we found the end of the entrance passage shewing, (see the left hand of p1.x, filled by a plug of stone, with a great lintel over it, and a wall of brickwork on each side. The wall on the north turned round a corner, as seen in the view, and ran back to B. From B to A (see letters on views 1 and 2, and on the plan pl. Xii) was a slope of plastering, and at A rose up a retaining wall of plastered brick. These brick walls all have a strong batter, which is shewn by the top and bottom outlines parallel on the plan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book MEYDUM AND MEMPHIS III written by W. M. FLINDERS. PETRIE and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meydum and Memphis III written by W. M. Flinders Petrie and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Memphis I The Palace of Apries Memphis II Meydum and Memphis III written by William Matthew Flinders Petrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published 1909-10, reissued here are three illustrated accounts of Egyptian archaeological excavations over three seasons at Memphis and Meidum.
Download or read book Magicians of the Gods written by Graham Hancock and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. But there were survivors - known to later cultures by names such as 'the Sages', 'the Magicians', 'the Shining Ones', and 'the Mystery Teachers of Heaven'. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilization burning. They settled at key locations - Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific where a huge pyramid has recently been discovered in Indonesia. Everywhere they went these 'Magicians of the Gods' brought with them the memory of a time when mankind had fallen out of harmony with the universe and paid a heavy price. A memory and a warning to the future..."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Sticks Stones and Shadows written by Martin Isler and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the pyramids of Egypt really represent? What could have driven so many to so great, and often so dangerous, an effort? Was the motivation religious or practical? Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and drawings, this book presents an original approach to the subject of pyramid building. It reveals the connection between devices that served both a practical need for survival and a spiritual belief in gods and goddesses. It examines Egyptian technologies and techniques from the origins of pyramid development to the step-by-step details of how the ground was leveled, how the site was oriented, and how the stone was raised and placed to meet at a distant point in the sky. Here the author also asks and answers questions virtually ignored for the last century. He discloses, for example, the ancient use of shadows, now denigrated to the ornamental back-yard sundial, but once an important tool for telling the height of an object, geographical directions, the seasons of the year, and the time of day. He also reinterprets the ancient "stretching of the cord" ceremony, which once was thought to have only religious significance but here is shown as the means of establishing the sides of a pyramid.
Download or read book Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom written by Peter Der Manuelian and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pyramid Age represents the first of several highpoints in ancient Egypt’s long history. But critical questions remain about the period, its social structure and economic organization, and the long-term implications of its artistic achievements. On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Journal of Egyptian History, The University of British Columbia, Harvard University, and Brill Academic Publishers, Boston, held a conference at Harvard University on April 26, 2012. A distinguished group of Egyptological scholars from around the world gathered to consider new perspectives on the Pyramid Age; the results are presented here.
Download or read book Memphis I Classic Reprint written by William Matthew Flinders Petrie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memphis I In such a centre it was natural that the gods of many different cities should have a home, and the temples of nineteen gods are mentioned in various sources. The Oldest object of worship was probably the bull Apis, a part of the veneration of animals which preceded the higher theistic ideas. The temple Of Apis was therefore the primitive settlement Of the place. But it was eclipsed by the great establishment of Ptah, which occupied as large a space as the enclosure of the temple of Amen at Karnak. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco Roman World written by Antonia Sarri and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have remained underexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing images of letters in the past. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital images and the appearance of more detailed and sophisticated editions, we are now in a position to study such aspects. This book examines the development of letter writing conventions from the archaic to Roman times, and is based on a wide corpus of letters that survive on their original material substrates. The bulk of the material is from Egypt, but the study takes account of comparative evidence from other regions of the Graeco-Roman world. Through analysis of developments in the use of letters, variations in formatting conventions, layout and authentication patterns according to the sociocultural background and communicational needs of writers, this book sheds light on changing trends in epistolary practice in Graeco-Roman society over a period of roughly eight hundred years. This book will appeal to scholars of Epistolography, Papyrology, Palaeography, Classics, Cultural History of the Graeco-Roman World.
Download or read book The Palace of Apries written by W. M. Flinders Petrie and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Palace of Apries: Memphis II 1. After the close of the excavations at Qurneh our camp was moved to Memphis to continue the work of the previous season, recorded in Memphis I. Mr. Wainwright left Qurneh three weeks before me, in order to study at the Cairo museum, and to begin the arrangements at Memphis. I went down on 10 February, and Mr. Mackay followed twelve days later after packing. I left on 21 April and Mr. Wainwright soon after, Mr. Mackay staying on till near the middle of May. The greater part of our work was spent upon the large mound at the north end of Memphis, which we found to be the site of the royal palace of Apries. The general appearance of it is a long ridge about two hundred feet wide, and four hundred feet from the north end up to some immense walled enclosures of brick at the south end. The view of the whole, from the east, is in PI. X, and the plan of the palace in PI. I. The plan was entirely measured by taping, from a sighted line laid out along the wall east of the new broadway, with diagonal ties across the great court to fix the squareness of the whole. Plumb-lines were constantly used for sighting and measuring. The clearance was over two acres of ground, to a depth of ten or fifteen feet in most parts, the largest clearance made this year in any site. Last season I had seen that there were walls remaining on the top of the mound, and therefore we ranked a row of workmen along each side of the ridge, and began steadily clearing inwards until they met in the middle. 2. The walls are all of black mud brick, with stone linings around the lower part of the halls, stone floors to the halls, and stone doorways and stairways. The walls are from 10 to 22 feet in thickness, generally being about 14 feet. They vary in age, some being patched on the top with later brickwork, some being built up from the floor of Apries, while many extend down far into the mound, covered with plaster, and evidently have served for previous palaces. It may be said that the level of Apries is inserted some way up the older walls, with some repairs, and some new construction added. The disentanglement of the history of construction, and of the changes of levels, will need careful work in future; but for the present we only deal with the level of Apries. The history of these changes seems clear. As a dynasty decayed, the roofs were not kept in good state, the winter rains ran into the walls, large masses fell off the tops of the walls after a heavy storm, some roofs fell in; then when a new order of things arose, the damaged parts were taken down, the floors were all levelled up with the rubbish, the sound walls were trimmed and patched, new walls were built where the decay was beyond repair, and the whole palace was restored at a higher level. Thus about seventy feet depth of artificial construction stands between the primitive ground level and the floor of Apries. Much of the north end has been successively extended by building up a cellular substructure of brick shafts domed over, like the platforms of the forts of Naukratis and Daphnae; but the rest of the site shews earlier courts in the lower levels. 3. The general scheme of the building was that it occupied the north-west corner of the great fortified camp of about thirty acres, at the north end of the ruins of Memphis. Along the west side of the camp was a line of three great enclosures, and the palace-fortress mound. The enclosures to the south are ruined and built over; that next to the palace has been cleared out by the sebakhin for earth, leaving a square of massive walls standing about forty feet high; all the interior of this is empty, and we cannot know what it contained before it was destroyed. Through this great square there was a roadway, with a wide gate on the south, and another on the north opposite to it. This latter is shewn on the plan, PI. I, by two white lines across the thick wall at the foot of the plate. T.
Download or read book Prehistoric Textiles written by E. J.W. Barber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph attempts to revise present ideas of the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East. Using linguistic techniques as well as methods from palaeobiology, it demonstrates that spinning and pattern-weaving existed far earlier than has been supposed.
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