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""Egypt: La Mort De Philae"" is a novel written by Pierre Loti, a French novelist and naval officer. The book is set in Egypt during the late 19th century and tells the story of a French naval officer who becomes infatuated with a local Egyptian woman. The officer, who remains unnamed, spends his days exploring the ancient ruins of Egypt, including the island of Philae, where he becomes enchanted with the temple of Isis. As he becomes more and more obsessed with the temple, he begins to neglect his duties and his relationships with his fellow officers. The novel explores themes of colonialism, cultural imperialism, and the clash between Western and Eastern cultures. It is a vivid and evocative portrayal of Egypt during this period, and a powerful reflection on the complexities of cross-cultural relationships.A city of mosques, then, as I was saying. They follow one another along the streets, sometimes two, three, four in a row; leaning one against the other, so that their confines become merged. On all sides their minarets shoot up into the air, those minarets embellished with arabesques, carved and complicated with the most changing fancy. They have their little balconies, their rows of little columns; they are so fashioned that the daylight shows through them.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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A deluxe gift edition of The Egyptian Book of the Dead, beautifully presented with delicate gold embossing and gilded page edges. This ancient funerary text contains a collection of spells, prayers and incantations designed to guide the departed through the perils of the underworld. Written to ensure eternal life, these scrolls were often left in the sarcophagus of the deceased and now offer fascinating insight into Egyptian culture. This beautifully illustrated edition contains images from the exquisite Papyrus of Ani, an ancient Egyptian scroll narrating the journey of Theban scribe Ani through the underworld. Its accompanying hieroglyphic text has been translated by acclaimed Egyptologist E.A Wallis Budge, and includes spells addressed to ferryman, gods and kings to aid Ani on his way to the afterlife. This compact gilded hardback edition makes a wonderful gift. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Ornate Classics are beautifully bound gifts editions of iconic literary works across history. These compact, foil-embossed hardbacks are richly illustrated and printed using deluxe ivory paper.

On the eve of a brutal battle, a queen-in-waiting alters the course of history and awakens the embers of a fabled war - and a love - older than time.

Caught between a powerful king and an indomitable warrior, who would you choose to love...for eternity?

Connect with the celestial powers of ancient goddesses

"The Indus civilization in South Asia (c. 3200 - 1500BC) was one of the most important Old World Bronze Age cultures. This study offers new insights into the Indus civilisation through an archaeobotanical reconstruction of its environment. It synthesizes the available data on genetics, archaeobotany, and archaeology"--

Deliver me from the Watchers who bear slaughtering knives, and who have cruel fingers. The Egyptian Book of the Dead is an ancient collection of spells, prayers and incantations designed to guide the departed through the perils of the underworld, ultimately ensuring eternal life. Written as part of funeral rites, these scrolls were often left in the sarcophagus of the deceased and now offer fascinating insight into Egyptian culture. This beautifully illustrated edition contains images from the exquisite Papyrus of Ani, an ancient Egyptian scroll narrating the journey of Theban scribe Ani through the underworld. Its accompanying hieroglyphic text has been translated by acclaimed Egyptologist E.A Wallis Budge, and includes spells addressed to ferryman, gods and kings to aid Ani on his way to the afterlife. This silk-bound hardback contains magnificent illustrations that complement the text and bring out its timeless beauty. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Silkbound Classics series brings together deluxe gift editions of literary classics, presented with luxurious silk binding, striking embossed cover designs and full-color illustrations.

Delve into the opulent world of ancient Rome as this study unveils a captivating aspect of Roman wealth display during the first through fourth centuries AD. While scholars have extensively explored Roman art, particularly paintings and mosaics, few have traced the visual representations of the entire process of food production and consumption from the field to the table.In this groundbreaking work, the author fills a significant gap in historical scholarship by meticulously collecting and analyzing depictions found in homes, shops, and tombs that illustrate the planting, harvesting, transport, and acquisition of food. Drawing on evidence from both visual art and written sources, this study offers a comprehensive exploration of economic life and social status in the imperial era.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821-33. Focusing particularly on the question of who saved the Parthenon from destruction during this conflict, with the help of documents that shed a new light on this enduring question, he explores the contributions made by the Philhellenes, Ancient Athenians, Ottomans and the Great Powers. Marshalling a vast amount of primary evidence, much of it previously unexamined and published here for the first time, St Clair rigorously explores the multiple ways in which the Parthenon has served both as a cultural icon onto which meanings are projected and as a symbol of particular national, religious and racial identities, as well as how it illuminates larger questions about the uses of built heritage. This book has a companion volume with the classical Parthenon as its main focus, which offers new ways of recovering the monument and its meanings in ancient times. St Clair builds on the success of his classic text, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, to present this rich and authoritative account of the Parthenon's presentation and reception throughout history. With weighty implications for the present life of the Parthenon, it is itself a monumental contribution to accounts of the Greek Revolution, to classical studies, and to intellectual history.

This volume contains twenty-two studies focusing on a variety of topics related to mysteries, initiation rituals, and mystic cults in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Much of this material was presented during an International Conference organized by the Centre for the Study of Myth and Religion in Greek and Roman Antiquity at the University of Patras in 2022. Some additional contributions provide a more comprehensive overview of the book's topic.

Den urgamle egyptiske kaosgud Seth lever sit vilde og udsvævende i nutidens Tyskland på en borg ved Rhinen. En dag inviterer Seth den berømte dirigent Martin Seeber til at bo på borgen, mens han forbereder en opsætning af Wagners opera Parsifal. Skjult for verdens blikke finder Martin Seeber hos Seth et fristed, hvor han for første gang kan udleve sine mest hemmelige drifter. Samtidig på et engelsk herresæde samles det lærde broderskab Trismegistoen for at gøre en ende på Seths hærgen. Blandt dem er den genfødte gud Horus, der som den eneste kan tage kampen op. Snart hvirvles den intetanende Martin Seeber og kvinden, han begærer mere end noget andet, ind i en guddommelig malstrøm af begivenheder, der kulminerer under premieren på den legendariske Parsifal. Gudernes tusmørke er en stærk fortælling om begærets magt. Gudernes tusmørke er tredje selvstændige del af trilogien Gudestorm. ”En meget tilfredsstillende afslutning på en usædvanlig trilogi og også en litterær præstation af internationalt format.” ***** Jyllands-Posten “Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen slipper hele sit imponerende apparat af egyptologi, religionshistorie, okkultisme, myter og klassisk kunst og musik løs i en overdådig finale … Vedsø Olesen præsterer endnu en gang det anselige kunststykke at få det hele til at give mening, at gøre det interessant og underholdende og at få sine personer til at leve.” Politiken ”Gudernes tusmørke vælter sig i intense spændingskurver, bragende musikskildringer og sanselige scener, og Vedsø Olesen vender plottet om på forbløffende vis til sidst.” Kristeligt Dagblad

My name is Hori, and my sister's name is Meres Amun. We wish to tell you about the history of Ancient Egypt. Did you know that the largest part of Egypt was made up of desert sands, making it seem empty and barren? There were also large rocks and high cliffs. The river Nile made Egypt a place where people could live and work. It created a vast green area with trees and vegetation. The people called it "The beloved land", and it gave Egypt its wealth and was good for agriculture. There were two rivers which formed the Nile. The Blue Nile ascended from the mountains in Abyssinia, and the White Nile from the waters in central Africa. Egypt had three Kingdoms. The Old Kingdom existed from 2640 to 2130 BC. This was the period when the first pyramids were built, and many other prominent buildings were constructed. It was also a flourishing time for the arts, medicine, literature and science.

Rome was an empire of images, especially images that bolstered their imperial identity. Visual and material items portraying battles, myths, captives, trophies, and triumphal parades were particularly important across the Roman empire. But where did these images originate and what shaped them? Empire of Images explores the development of the Roman visual language of power in the Republic in Iberian Peninsula, the Gallic provinces, and Greece and Macedonia, centering the development of imperial imagery in overseas conquest. Drawing on a range of material evidence, this book argues that Roman imperial imagery developed through prolonged interaction with and adaptation by subjugated peoples. Despite their starring role in Roman imagery, the populations of Rome's provinces continuously reinterpreted and reimagined Roman images of power to navigate their membership in the new imperial community, and in doing so, contributed to the creation of a universal visual language that continues to shape how Rome is understood.

Was würde passieren, wenn plötzlich Dinosaurier in Fleisch und Blut auftauchten? Würden Sie fasziniert sein, könnten Sie Neandertalern bei der Jagd über die Schulter sehen? Wie würden Sie reagieren, müssten Sie plötzlich beim Bau der Pyramiden mit anpacken?Dieses Buch gibt einen kleinen Einblick in eine Welt, in der dies alles möglich ist.

King David said, "Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law." (Psalms 119:18)If you see in the Ten Commandments not beauty but utilitarian rules or inflexible dogmatism, you have not seen the law. If you sought a world whose history is governed by God's universal, objective rules but see only moral anarchy and injustice, you have not seen the law at work. If you have been seeking a path to maturity and spiritual peace outside of God's law because it seems irrelevant, you have not seen the law at work for you. Talking history, this book proves God judged ten world empires according to the Ten Commandments, one commandment per empire, chronologically. As prophesied by Job and Revelation, these events demonstrate the power of the commandments to shape not only world history, but shape your history.Talking personal growth in worldly matters, this book shows the commandments are seeds. Once sprouted, they power a Growth Pattern which King Solomon put in Ecclesiastes to guide us through our time "under the sun".Talking spiritual growth in heavenly matters, this book shows how those sprouting seeds also power Jesus' Harvest Pattern from Matthew. By it you can reap spiritual harvests, like victory over depression, anxiety, purposelessness and the fear of death.Talking emotional support, this book shows how the Psalms are meditations on the law. The psalter is carefully arranged into sections. Psalms 1-28 are ordered as a companion to Solomon's Growth pattern, with meditations for every stage of life. Another collection of fifty psalms shows that God has prophetically "been there" for his people from beginning to end. They are arranged to show that God knew how his children would feel during every era in history, marking every turbulent emotion and answering heartfelt prayers with action and consolation. You will see that God knows how you are feeling, listens to your prayers, and has a plan to comfort you.Proverbs 9 tells us that Lady Wisdom has built her house. This book will walk you through her blueprints. The precepts of the Law are the foundation of her house.Lastly, the epilogue shows from the Bible God's specific, itemized, quantified plan for the liberation of women from oppression, presenting the Motherhood pattern. Jesus will not leave any of his Father's children behind.

Seven hundred and twenty-two personal ornaments, found in the fort of Saut and the Déboussadou cave (Châteauneuf les Martigues, Bouches du Rhône) and in three of the megalithic monuments (Bounias, Castellet and Source hypogeums) of Fontvieille, Bouche du Rhône, were studied in the present work. We count five categories of ornaments, pendants, beads, ring elements, buttons and plates. The formal analogies of these artifacts with several areas of Europe and in particular with the western Mediterranean area indicate the existence of contacts and exchanges. Traceological studies have shown traces of the last phases of processing and regulation of the surfaces of the piece and also various methods used to perforate the artifacts. The shape of the ornaments and in some cases the traces present, help to define a specific use.

Four begin the journey in the first series, the opening.Entering the middle of the game plan, the battle begins.The end game commences with the battle against the most potent weapon in the universe. One King will reign.