Egypt
Ancient Egyptian Love Poems Reveal a Lust for Life
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0416_040416_pyramidsongs.html#main
"A group of love poems have been found in an excavated workers' village on the outskirts of the Valley of Kings, where many pharaohs are entombed. The verses allow poetry lovers and Egyptophiles alike to tap into the emotional side of Egyptian daily life". From the National Geographic.
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Book Review: Poems In Context
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by David Hernández de la Fuente) Laura Miguélez Cavero, Poems in Context: Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD. Sozomena. Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts 2. Berlin/New York: W. De Gruyter, 2008....
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Book Review: Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry
Bryn Mawr Classical Reviw (review by L. R. Siddall) R. B. Parkinson, Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among other Histories. Chichester/Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Preview "This book has been written for fun, and it is in a sense a love letter...
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More Re Work Of University Of Helsinki In The Valley Of The Kings
Science Daily The first field season is now over at the hut village of the workmen who built the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. However, the archaeologists working on the excavation have found that they still have a great deal to do. The sun, the wind...
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Book Review: Ancient Egyptian Literature By John L. Foster
There's a short review of the above book on the About.com website by K. Kris Hirst, from which the following is a brief extract (Book details: John L. Foster (translator). 2001. Ancient Egyptian Literature. University of Texas Press, Austin. 229 pp;...
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National Geographic Feature On Abydos
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/index.html http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/gallery1.html http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/map.html Thanks to my Dad for buying me the April edition of National...
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