Egypt
- Ancient Circular Mathematical Mystery Solved?
Arkysite A recent paper from Tel Aviv regarding Egyptian standard sizes for round pottery jugs may have inadvertently helped to solve an Egyptian mathematical mystery: http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00367.html http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0033895...
- Book Review: Petitions, Litigation, And Social Control In Roman Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Georgy Kantor) Benjamin Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Preview Interest...
- New Book: Litigation, And Social Control In Roman Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Georgy Kantor) Benjamin Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Preview...
- Feature: On The Subject Of Masonry
Theoretical Structural Archaeology (Geoff Carter) Geoff is looking at the subject of masonry, and looks at the stone work produced by many different nations, and has included a chunk about Egypt. Here's a short extract from the piece. The history...
- Mathematics In Ancient Egypt
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/829/hr1.htm"The Greeks developed mathematics as a deductive science that reached its climax with Euclid of Alexandria in his masterpiece The Elements. Before that, during the ancient Egyptian era, mathematics was an inductive...
Egypt
New Book: Egyptian Tomb Architecture
British Archaeological Reports
Egyptian Tomb Architecture The archaeological facts of pharaonic circular symbolism
By David I. Lightbody.
ISBN 9781407303390. £25.00. xiii+88 pages; 77 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; 4 data Appendices.
BAR S1852 2008:
Egyptian Tomb Architecture The archaeological facts of pharaonic circular symbolism
By David I. Lightbody.
ISBN 9781407303390. £25.00. xiii+88 pages; 77 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs; 4 data Appendices.
BAR S1852 2008:
The objective of this monograph is to describe and explain the meanings underlying some otherwise anomalous archaeological data drawn from the study of Ancient Egypt. An explanation for the phenomena observed has hitherto proved elusive. The data is principally concerned with royal funerary architecture from the Old Kingdom, and the underlying systems of measurement and geometry that were employed therein. As well as providing a description and explanation for the data, this work also has the objective of providing the first synthesis of related cultural information drawn from several different textual and archaeological resources. The general subject matter is pharaonic funerary architecture from Old Kingdom Egypt, and the work focuses specifically on the circular proportions deliberately incorporated into the tomb designs by the architects. Contents: Introduction; 1) Fundamentals of Ancient Egyptian mathematics and architecture; 2) The Evidence and facts of Egyptian circular proportions; 3) The symbolism; 4) Methodology, analysis and discussion of mathematics; 5) Arguments from authorities; 6) Archaeology and philology; fieldwork and deskwork; 7) Conclusions; Appendix 1: Secondary Issues; Appendix 2: Social Context of early Egyptology; Appendix 3: Egyptian and Greek Mathematics; Appendix 4: Quotes from the Greeks.
- Ancient Circular Mathematical Mystery Solved?
Arkysite A recent paper from Tel Aviv regarding Egyptian standard sizes for round pottery jugs may have inadvertently helped to solve an Egyptian mathematical mystery: http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00367.html http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0033895...
- Book Review: Petitions, Litigation, And Social Control In Roman Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Georgy Kantor) Benjamin Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Preview Interest...
- New Book: Litigation, And Social Control In Roman Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Georgy Kantor) Benjamin Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Preview...
- Feature: On The Subject Of Masonry
Theoretical Structural Archaeology (Geoff Carter) Geoff is looking at the subject of masonry, and looks at the stone work produced by many different nations, and has included a chunk about Egypt. Here's a short extract from the piece. The history...
- Mathematics In Ancient Egypt
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/829/hr1.htm"The Greeks developed mathematics as a deductive science that reached its climax with Euclid of Alexandria in his masterpiece The Elements. Before that, during the ancient Egyptian era, mathematics was an inductive...