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Temples of Ancient Egypt

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Price: $12.95

Publisher: NCROL: December 1997

Seller ID: 84304

ISBN: 0801433991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In Temples of Ancient Egypt, five distinguished scholars Dieter Arnold, Lanny Bell, Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad, Gerhard Haeny, and Byron E. Shafer here summarize the state of current knowledge about ancient Egyptian temples and the rituals associated with their use. The first volume in English to survey the major types of Egyptian temples from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period, it offers a unique perspective on ritual and its cultural significance. The authors perceive temples as loci for the creative interplay of sacred space and sacred time. They regard as unacceptable the traditional di...
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Ancient Egypt

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Price: $15.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: May 1997

Seller ID: 84392

ISBN: 0195212703

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The ancient Egyptians lived in a remarkable culture that created some of the world's most beautiful art and architecture. It was a land where Pharaoh was the monarch of the entire world, the living emodiment on Earth of the god Horus, son of Osiris, ruler of the underworld. It was a culture that relied on the rising and falling of the Nile, but resided next to the Great Sahara, one of the hottest and driest deserts on the planet. Even today, the ancient civilization of Egypt--which produced the great pyramids, the riddle of the Sphinx, and the riches of Tutankhamum--exerts a strong hold on our...
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