Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- 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: 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...
- New Book: The Language Of The Papyri
Oxford University Press The Language of the Papyri Edited by T. V. Evans and D. D. Obbink The modern rediscovery of the Greek and Latin papyri from Egypt has transformed our knowledge of the ancient world. We cannot, however, make the same claim in the...
- Book Review: Egypt In The Byzantine World 300-700
Bryn Mawr Classical Review This book's genesis lies in the annual Dumbarton Oaks Spring Symposium in Byzantine Studies, which in 2004 was dedicated to the theme 'Egypt in the Byzantine World, 450-700'. Roger Bagnall subsequently expanded the...
- Book Review: Mummies And Death In Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (review by Allen Kerkeslager) Françoise Dunand, Roger Lichtenberg, Mummies and Death in Egypt. Foreword by Jean Yoyotte. Translated from the French by David Lorton. Cornell University Press, 2006 Françoise Dunand and Roger...
Egypt
Book Review: Egyptology Today
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
This is a superb book. Wilkinson has brought together some of the current leading Egyptologists to produce a single volume work that introduces the reader to the methods and theories used in the study of ancient Egypt. All aspects of Egyptology are covered from the Egyptian language and medical research to the way archaeologists survey sites and the conservation of artefacts. The book is organized thematically into four parts (approaches, monuments, art and artifacts, and texts), with each part comprising three chapters. Wonderfully illustrated, this book will make excellent reading for students of the ancient world and the interested public.
The volume opens and closes with succinct essays by the editor on the past, current, and future status of Egyptological research. Wilkinson introduces the reader to the reality of modern Egyptological practice and research, pointing out that the latter part of the twentieth century has seen the study of Egyptology benefit from broader methods of scholarship taken from the arts and humanities, and the natural and medical sciences. Egyptology is now very much an interdisciplinary field.
- 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: 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...
- New Book: The Language Of The Papyri
Oxford University Press The Language of the Papyri Edited by T. V. Evans and D. D. Obbink The modern rediscovery of the Greek and Latin papyri from Egypt has transformed our knowledge of the ancient world. We cannot, however, make the same claim in the...
- Book Review: Egypt In The Byzantine World 300-700
Bryn Mawr Classical Review This book's genesis lies in the annual Dumbarton Oaks Spring Symposium in Byzantine Studies, which in 2004 was dedicated to the theme 'Egypt in the Byzantine World, 450-700'. Roger Bagnall subsequently expanded the...
- Book Review: Mummies And Death In Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (review by Allen Kerkeslager) Françoise Dunand, Roger Lichtenberg, Mummies and Death in Egypt. Foreword by Jean Yoyotte. Translated from the French by David Lorton. Cornell University Press, 2006 Françoise Dunand and Roger...