Egypt
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- Book Review: What Makes Civilization?
Aardvarchaeology (Martin Rundkvist) What Makes Civilization? David Wengrow Oxford University Press 2010 Reviewing David Wengrow's What Makes Civilization? is made difficult by the discrepancy between its title and its contents. Out of about 240 pp...
- Heritage Branding - Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken
EurekAlert From at least Bass Ale’s red triangle—advertised as “the first registered trademark”—commodity brands have exerted a powerful hold over modern Western society. Marketers and critics alike have assumed that branding began in the West...
- Book Review: Images Of Egypt
Tonight A very short book review of Images Of Egypt by Sir Michael Weir by Caroline Hurry: With sites sacred to Muslims, Christians, Jews and Pagans, Egypt has the power to send anyone's imagination back through time to the days of ancient Pharaohs,...
- Rosetta Online Journal - Issue 02 2007
http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/Issue_02/Gregory.htm The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham released the second issue of the online journal "Rosetta" which covers a wide scope of archaeology, history and classics subjects....
- Book: The Archaeology Of Early Egypt
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521543746 Thanks to Geoffrey Tassie for the information that a new book on early Egypt is forthcoming: The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North East Africa, 10,000 to 2650 BC...
Egypt
New book: What makes civilization?
OUP Blog
In What Makes Civilization?, archaeologist David Wengrow provides a vivid new account of the ‘birth of civilization’ in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq). These two regions, where many foundations of modern life were laid, are usually treated in isolation. This book aims to bring them together within a unified history of how people first created cities, kingdoms, and monumental temples to the gods. In the original blog post below, David Wengrow writes about that isolated view of the Near and Middle East.
- Book Review: What Makes Civilization?
Aardvarchaeology (Martin Rundkvist) What Makes Civilization? David Wengrow Oxford University Press 2010 Reviewing David Wengrow's What Makes Civilization? is made difficult by the discrepancy between its title and its contents. Out of about 240 pp...
- Heritage Branding - Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken
EurekAlert From at least Bass Ale’s red triangle—advertised as “the first registered trademark”—commodity brands have exerted a powerful hold over modern Western society. Marketers and critics alike have assumed that branding began in the West...
- Book Review: Images Of Egypt
Tonight A very short book review of Images Of Egypt by Sir Michael Weir by Caroline Hurry: With sites sacred to Muslims, Christians, Jews and Pagans, Egypt has the power to send anyone's imagination back through time to the days of ancient Pharaohs,...
- Rosetta Online Journal - Issue 02 2007
http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/Issue_02/Gregory.htm The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham released the second issue of the online journal "Rosetta" which covers a wide scope of archaeology, history and classics subjects....
- Book: The Archaeology Of Early Egypt
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521543746 Thanks to Geoffrey Tassie for the information that a new book on early Egypt is forthcoming: The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North East Africa, 10,000 to 2650 BC...