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Pharaoh's land and beyond. Ancient Egypt and its neighbors.

CREASMAN Pearce Paul - WILKINSON Richard H. (editors)

Item #M12438

Oxford University Press, New York, 2017. First edition. In-8, xx & 347 pages. Original cloth with dust-jacket, a fine copy. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III (VSX). Contents: Introduction / Pearce Paul Creasman and Richard H. Wilkinson -- SECTION I: Pathways -- Finding the Beyond: Exploration / Thomas Schneider -- Paths in the Deep: Maritime Connections / Pearce Paul Creasman and Noreen Doyle -- Pathways to Distant Kingdoms: Land Connections / Gregory Mumford -- SECTION II: People -- Children of Other Gods: Social Interactions / Bettina Bader -- Between Brothers: Diplomatic Interactions / Richard H. Wilkinson and Noreen Doyle -- The Armies of Re / Anthony Spalinger -- SECTION III: Objects -- The Long Arm of Merchantry: Trade Interactions / Samuel Mark -- Artisans and Their Products: Interaction in Art and Architecture / Stuart Tyson Smith -- Traded, Copied, and Kept: The Ubiquitous Appeal of Scarabs / Vanessa Boschloos -- SECTION IV: Ideas -- Technology in Transit: The Borrowing of Ideas in Science and Craftwork / Ian Shaw -- The Flow of Words: Interaction in Writing and Literature during the Bronze Age -- Part I: Writing Systems: Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs in the Bronze Age: Script Contact and the Creation of New Scripts / Orly Goldwasser -- Part II: Literature: Egyptian and Levantine Belles-Lettres-Links and Influences during the Bronze Age / Noga Ayali-Darshan -- All Gods Are Our Gods: Religious Interaction -- Part I: "From Bes to Baal": Religious Interconnections between Egypt and the East / Izak Cornelius -- Part II: Egypt and Nubia / Kathryn Howley -- Part III: Religious Interaction between Egypt and the Aegean in the 2nd Millennium BCE / Nanno Marinatos -- SECTION V: Events -- Violence in Earth, Water and Sky: Geological Hazards / James A. Harrell -- The Fickle Nile: Effects of Droughts and Floods / Judith Bunbury -- Illness from Afar: Epidemics and Their Aftermath / Rosalie David. Language: English. Relevant subjects: Egypt: History, Astronomy & Geography.

Language: English.

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