Egypt
- 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: Mortuary Landscapes Of North Africa
Bryn Mawr Classical Review I include this more as a curio than anything. North Africa, it appears from this review, does not include Egypt. It might well be of interest to visitors interested in the Roman period, however, and the interaction of Roman...
- Book Review: Hellenistic Egypt - Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture
Bryn Mawr Classics (Review by John Bauschatz, The University of Arizona) Jean Bingen, Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture. Edited with an Introduction by Roger S. Bagnall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. In Hellenistic...
- Book Review: Ancient Africa (national Geographic)
Broward Times (Terr Schlichenmeyer) Review of a book aimed at school children: Imagine digging through the soil and finding a fossil that turns out to be the skull of an early human. Did you know that that hominid might have been your ancestor? Scientists...
- New Hawass Tutankhamun Book For Young Readers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301624.html This review by the Washington Post of Zahi Hawass's book Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Boy King gives it the thumbs-up: "For aspiring young archaeologists, this...
Egypt
Book Review: Forgotten Africa
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/reviews/05_05_connah.htm
This book is aimed at the "general reader and beginning student; advanced undergraduates and postgraduates may find the coverage a little too basic, and in terms of these readership criteria, Connah hits the mark. Connah emphasises this approach in his introduction, and he goes on to weave a very accessible, approachable and engaging book. The coverage is vast: early hominins, regional rock art, food production and then area-specific case studies embracing everything from ancient Egypt (good to see this recognised as actually belonging to Africa), Nubia, Ethiopia and across into western Africa, the tropical rain forest and points southwards. Every major site, theme and theory is covered in an accessible manner."
This is a short extract from a much longer review on the Prehistoric Society website. See the above link for the full review.
This book is aimed at the "general reader and beginning student; advanced undergraduates and postgraduates may find the coverage a little too basic, and in terms of these readership criteria, Connah hits the mark. Connah emphasises this approach in his introduction, and he goes on to weave a very accessible, approachable and engaging book. The coverage is vast: early hominins, regional rock art, food production and then area-specific case studies embracing everything from ancient Egypt (good to see this recognised as actually belonging to Africa), Nubia, Ethiopia and across into western Africa, the tropical rain forest and points southwards. Every major site, theme and theory is covered in an accessible manner."
This is a short extract from a much longer review on the Prehistoric Society website. See the above link for the full 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: Mortuary Landscapes Of North Africa
Bryn Mawr Classical Review I include this more as a curio than anything. North Africa, it appears from this review, does not include Egypt. It might well be of interest to visitors interested in the Roman period, however, and the interaction of Roman...
- Book Review: Hellenistic Egypt - Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture
Bryn Mawr Classics (Review by John Bauschatz, The University of Arizona) Jean Bingen, Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture. Edited with an Introduction by Roger S. Bagnall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. In Hellenistic...
- Book Review: Ancient Africa (national Geographic)
Broward Times (Terr Schlichenmeyer) Review of a book aimed at school children: Imagine digging through the soil and finding a fossil that turns out to be the skull of an early human. Did you know that that hominid might have been your ancestor? Scientists...
- New Hawass Tutankhamun Book For Young Readers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301624.html This review by the Washington Post of Zahi Hawass's book Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Boy King gives it the thumbs-up: "For aspiring young archaeologists, this...