Egypt
Egyptology Today (Charlotte Booth)
- Book Review: Describing And Interpreting The Past
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Sveta Matskevich) Cătălin Pavel, Describing and Interpreting the Past: European and American Approaches to the Written Record of the Excavation. Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti While...
- Book Review: City Of The Ram-man
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Robert Gozzoli) Donald B. Redford, City of the Ram-man: The Story of Ancient Mendes. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. This book by Redford is a synthesis of the author’s fieldwork at the site...
- Book Review: The Illustrated Guide To The Coptic Museum And Churches Of Old Cairo
The Illustrated Guide to the Coptic Museum and Churches of Old Cairo by Gawdat Gabra, The American University in Cairo Press, 2007 A lovely book. As well as being a gallery by gallery guide to the museum, with some fine photographs, it is a very useful...
- Book Review: A History Of The Ancient Near East
Scholia Reviews ns 16 (2007) 38. (Review by Jan P. Stronk, Ancient History, University of Amsterdam.) M. Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East, ca 3000-323 BC. Malden, Oxford, Carlton: Blackwell, 2007[2]. Blackwell History of the Ancient...
- The World Of The Pharaoh's, A Complete Guide To Ancient Egypt
Christine Hobson Thames & Hudson New York ISBN: 0-500-27560-2 1987 The author starts out strong in its introduction with an interesting overview of Pharaonic history leading into the archaeologists who discovered the various epoch's of Egypt's...
Egypt
Book Review: Egyptology Today - An Introduction
Egyptology Today (Charlotte Booth)
Egyptology Today is a collection of essays by a team of archaeologists, curators, scholars, and conservators who are all working in the field, present techniques and methods to explain the discipline of Egyptology. Richard Wilkinson has written a short introduction about how Egyptology has changed from a gentleman’s pastime to a multi-disciplinary science. The book is separated into four parts, with three essays covering many aspects of Egyptology.
Kent Weeks writes a nice introductory chapter describing Egyptology, its history and key players from the past including Petrie, Mariette, Reisner and Rhind. He describes the process required to obtain a concession in Egypt and the opportunities available in what is a changing, multi-disciplinary career. He makes an interesting comment that no new concessions are given in Upper Egypt. Only the Delta has available sites, in order to protect them from the threat of urbanisation.
This well-written chapter is followed by a rather verbose essay on the difficulties and challenges facing history writers, writing about ancient Egypt which Redford claims has too long been dominated by art history.
- Book Review: Describing And Interpreting The Past
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Sveta Matskevich) Cătălin Pavel, Describing and Interpreting the Past: European and American Approaches to the Written Record of the Excavation. Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti While...
- Book Review: City Of The Ram-man
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Robert Gozzoli) Donald B. Redford, City of the Ram-man: The Story of Ancient Mendes. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. This book by Redford is a synthesis of the author’s fieldwork at the site...
- Book Review: The Illustrated Guide To The Coptic Museum And Churches Of Old Cairo
The Illustrated Guide to the Coptic Museum and Churches of Old Cairo by Gawdat Gabra, The American University in Cairo Press, 2007 A lovely book. As well as being a gallery by gallery guide to the museum, with some fine photographs, it is a very useful...
- Book Review: A History Of The Ancient Near East
Scholia Reviews ns 16 (2007) 38. (Review by Jan P. Stronk, Ancient History, University of Amsterdam.) M. Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East, ca 3000-323 BC. Malden, Oxford, Carlton: Blackwell, 2007[2]. Blackwell History of the Ancient...
- The World Of The Pharaoh's, A Complete Guide To Ancient Egypt
Christine Hobson Thames & Hudson New York ISBN: 0-500-27560-2 1987 The author starts out strong in its introduction with an interesting overview of Pharaonic history leading into the archaeologists who discovered the various epoch's of Egypt's...