Folder 1. Ancient Egypt Personal Perspectives / by Arelene E. Wolinski ; Maps and Drawings by Jason Kessel ; Photographs by Arelene Wolinski. Carlsbad, CA: Interaction Publishers, Inc., 1999
About
This teacher resource book provides information on ancient Egypt via short essays, photographs, maps, charts, and drawings. Egyptian social and religious life, including writing, art, architecture, and even the practice of mummification, is conveniently summarized for the teacher or other practitioner in a series of one to three page articles with occasional illustrations.
Dates
- Publication: 1999
Creator
- Wolinski, Arelene E. (Author, Person)
- Wolinski, Arelene E. (Photographer, Person)
- Kessel, Jason (Illustrator, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
1 Books : 89 pages : illustrations, maps, b&w photographs ; 28 cm
Language
English
Contents
How we know (p.1)
Ancient Egyptian chronology (p.2)
Map: The Nile Valley (p.3)
Geography (p.4-6)
Were the ancient Egyptians black or white? (p.7-8)
Predynatic period (p.9)
Where a nation began (p.10-12)
The Old Kingdom (p.13)
Faience (p.14)
Beer in ancient Egypt (p.15)
The Rosetta Stone (p.16-17)
Hieroglyphic alphabet (p.18)
Important terms for religion (p.19)
Main gods and goddesses (p.20)
Ancient Egyptian creation beliefs (p.21)
Amulets (p.22-23)
Some aspects of Egyptian religion (p.24-26)
Precincts of eternity / Jean-Calude Golvin (p.27-29)
Ancient Egyptian ceremonial masks (p.3034)
Musings on the word mask (p.35)
Egypt is of Africa (p.36-37)
Art (p.38-39)
Pyramid chronology (p.40)
Pyramids at a glance (p.41)
The Pi connection (p.42)
Pyramids (p.43-48)
Mummies (p.49-52)
The Middle Kingdom (p.53)
Women (p.54)
Who were the Hyksos? (p.55-56)
The New Kingdom (p.57)
Possible genealogy 18th Dynasty (p.58)
Hatshepsut (p.59-61)
Maps: Egypt and the East (p.62)
Ancient Egypt: Hurrians, Mitanni and Hittites (p.63-64)
Egypt and the Mediterranean world / Gaballa Aly Gaballa (p.65-67)
Akhenaten (p.68)
New view of Nefertiti (p.6)
Was Smenkhkare Nefertiti? (p.70-71)
King Tutankhamon and DNA (p.72)
Tutankhamon curse chronology (p.73)
Silk in ancient Egypt (p.74-77)
New Kingdom poetry (p.78)
Ozymandias (p.79)
Curses and kisses (p.80)
Victory hymn of Merneptah and Israel Stela (p.81)
The later dynasties (p.82-83)
Kushites (p.84)
Ptolemiac Egypt (p.85)
Shaman and the blue water lily of Ancient Egypt (p.86-87)
Index (p.88-89)
Repository Details
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