Egypt
- Cleopatra - Death By Cocktail?
The Telegraph, UK (Allan Hall) The Queen of the Nile ended her life in 30BC and it has always been held that it was the bite of an asp – now called the Egyptian cobra – which caused her demise. Now Christoph Schaefer, German historian and professor...
- Book Review: The Secret Lore Of Egypt
Esoterica The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West By Erik Hornung, translated by David Lorton (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001) Reviewed by Lee Irwin This is an excellent survey for all esotericists and scholars interested in the...
- Book Review: Monastic Bodies: Discipline And Salvation In Shenoute Of Atripe
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Kevin Teo) Caroline T. Schroeder, Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Caroline Schroeder's book is arguably more illuminating...
- Book Review: John Romer's The Great Pyramid
http://archaeology.about.com/od/oldkingdom/fr/romer.htmSee the above page for the full review, which includes a break down of each of the sections and what it offers, but here's an extract: "The Great Pyramid is awe-inspiring: the book expresses Romer's...
- The Splendour That Was Egypt
Margaret A. Murray Sidgwick; Jackson London 1977 Reprint ISBN: 0 283 97892 9 This sixty year old book is hopefully just what I needed to forget the last book I read, though the chronology is off with dates of the Middle Kingdom as an example being more...
Egypt
Review: Jan Assmann, Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-02-01.html
Reviewed by Barry Powell, University of Wisconsin, Madison: "Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt is not an easy book to read, because its topic is highly complex and the data bearing upon it are diverse and open to different interpretations. In fact Egyptian religion is a difficult topic and poorly understood, but in his book A. astounds the reader with his deep knowledge of religious texts from all periods of Egyptian civilization and from the Greeks and Romans too. He is equally familiar with evidence from art and architecture. He does not hesitate to refer to modern commentators (a German bias is hardly surprising). In a curiously discursive style he leads the reader through the maddeningly opaque pronouncements of Egyptian intellectuals about the nature of death, its origin, its meaning, its importance. Every page shines a fresh light on a topic that fascinates us all, but leaves us puzzled. A.'s book will take its place as classic study and shows again why he is justly regarded as one of the great Egyptologists writing today. A. never forgets that, though we have changed since the days of Pharaoh, we too must die.
Jan Assmann, Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt. Translated from the German by David Lorton, abridged and updated by the author. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. 490. ISBN 978-0-8014-4241-4.
- Cleopatra - Death By Cocktail?
The Telegraph, UK (Allan Hall) The Queen of the Nile ended her life in 30BC and it has always been held that it was the bite of an asp – now called the Egyptian cobra – which caused her demise. Now Christoph Schaefer, German historian and professor...
- Book Review: The Secret Lore Of Egypt
Esoterica The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West By Erik Hornung, translated by David Lorton (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001) Reviewed by Lee Irwin This is an excellent survey for all esotericists and scholars interested in the...
- Book Review: Monastic Bodies: Discipline And Salvation In Shenoute Of Atripe
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Kevin Teo) Caroline T. Schroeder, Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Caroline Schroeder's book is arguably more illuminating...
- Book Review: John Romer's The Great Pyramid
http://archaeology.about.com/od/oldkingdom/fr/romer.htmSee the above page for the full review, which includes a break down of each of the sections and what it offers, but here's an extract: "The Great Pyramid is awe-inspiring: the book expresses Romer's...
- The Splendour That Was Egypt
Margaret A. Murray Sidgwick; Jackson London 1977 Reprint ISBN: 0 283 97892 9 This sixty year old book is hopefully just what I needed to forget the last book I read, though the chronology is off with dates of the Middle Kingdom as an example being more...