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Since the Renaissance, Julius Caesar has been idolized as a superman. Classical sources, however, present a far less exalted being. As General Fuller writes, Caesar was "an unscrupulous demagogue wh……続きを見る

Senneferi was the chancellor of the king in Thebes (modern Luxor) in the reign of Thutmose III (c. 1430 BC). His large but badly damaged tomb lies in the hill of Sheikh Abdel Qurna on the West Bank ……続きを見る

The resurrection of the Assyrian world and the discovery of Sargon are synchronous. Prior to 1843, when Botta made his first excavations, it was no exaggeration to say that "a case scarcely three fe……続きを見る

Uncover the mysteries of the Great Pyramid of Giza with Joseph Seiss’s enduring and thought-provoking classic. First published in 1877, A Miracle in Stone is an extensive treatise on the Great Pyram……続きを見る

Gaston Maspero, célèbre égyptologue français, titulaire à la chaire de philologie et antiquités égyptiennes du Collège de France, nous explique tout sur l'architecture égyptienne dans ce texte. Sont……続きを見る

This is a history of the process of embalming dead bodies, something that people have been doing for thousands of years. From the preface: “I have considered it my duty to give here the details of t……続きを見る

For anyone who has ever wondered whether they have lived before, the story of Hori, an Ancient Egyptian priest who lived some 3,500 years ago in Ancient Egypt, at Karnak, Thebes, is inspiring. The p……続きを見る

يؤرخ أبو شامة في كتابه هذا لحقبة تبلغ نصف قرن، تمتد من عام 540 ه إلى عام 589 هـ، وهذه الحقبة تشمل الدولتين: النورية التي قادها نور الدين زنكي (511-569 هـ)، والدولة الصلاحية التي وضع صلاح الدين قواعد……続きを見る

With the abolition of the Macedonian monarchy the supremacy of Rome not only became an established fact from the Pillars of Hercules to the mouths of the Nile and the Orontes, but, as if it were the……続きを見る

James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, he joined the faculty of the University of ……続きを見る

The sign left by Delacroix in the Church of Saint-Sulpice, a sleeping beauty waiting somewhere to be saved, a demon guarding a cursed treasure, and 64 scattered stones... For the first time, the Ava……続きを見る

The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript with cursive hieroglyphs and illustrations created c. 1250 BCE, in the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. Egyptians compiled an individualiz……続きを見る

La nostra conoscenza di Manetone è incerta, ma possiamo affermare tre cose che sono: la sua patria, il suo sacerdozio a Eliopoli e la sua attività per l’introduzione del culto di Serapide. Il nome M……続きを見る

Gli antichi Egiziani, grazie alla posizione geografica della loro terra, non erano un popolo guerriero, come lo furono altri dell’area medio - orientale. Nei primi periodi della loro civiltà ebbero ……続きを見る

Al tempo degli antichi profeti l'immutabile firmamento risplendeva sulla terra, visibile ogni notte. La rivoluzione delle stelle e la progressione delle costellazioni davano la misura del passare de……続きを見る

The purpose of these pages is to present a short history of Ancient Egypt from the founding of the monarchy until the disintegration of the empire 3,000 years afterwards. The material for such a wor……続きを見る

An incredible population that made ground-breaking discoveries in many industries and created the world's most ancient State, about 4000 years ago. Passerino Editore's mini ebooks are the quick, sim……続きを見る

In questo libro vengono analizzati in ordine alfabetico i siti archeologici sparsi nel mondo che comprendono al loro interno delle piramidi. Partendo dalla lettera A di Alaska, arrivando fino alla l……続きを見る

“World-renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass. He is one of the world’s authorities on the Giza pyramids, and has spent his life excavating around the pyramids and the Sphinx. He made major important di……続きを見る

Non si sa di sicuro se sia nato nel 1782 o 1783. Quando si presenta nel giugno del 1815 alle autorità egiziane esibisce 2 documenti rilasciati l'uno, il passaporto, a Cadice e l'altro, il certificat……続きを見る

In this vastly informative and engaging piece, Herodotus has covered the vast history, culture and the greatness of Egypt. Carefully separating the facts from the myths, he has painted a stunning pi……続きを見る

The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. Freud hypothesizes that Moses was not Hebr……続きを見る

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is a sacred text. It consists of a collection of magical and religious formulas that were to serve the deceased to protect him and help him on his journey to the afterl……続きを見る

Before the murderers of Domitian raised their hands to strike the fatal blow, they looked around, we read, to find a successor to replace him. Others whom they sounded on the subject shrunk away in ……続きを見る

SALAMIS and Plataea settled that Persia should not expand into Europe. Her European conquests could no longer be held; in 479 she lost Sestos and the Hellespont, in 478 Byzantium and the Bosporus; w……続きを見る

El talismán (The talisman) es una novela del escritor escocés Walter Scott. Apareció en 1825 como la segunda historia de sus Cuentos de los Cruzados (Tales of the Crusaders). El talismán nos ubica d……続きを見る

Within this small book you will find six distinctive folk tales from the ancient land of Egypt translated and edited by that giant of Egyptology – W. M. Flinders Petrie (1853 – 1942). Petrie was a p……続きを見る

In this book 11 Legends about the Gods of Ancient Egypt have been compiled and retold by Margaret Murray. These legends, were current in the "morning of the world," and have been preserved through s……続きを見る

Il testo prende in esame, con dovizia di immagini, disegni esplicativi e fonti antiche, vari aspetti della pesca nel mondo antico a partire dall'epoca egizia e greco arcaica fino alla tarda romanità……続きを見る

Abu Simbel – Meraviglia d’Egitto è un omaggio alla celeberrima coppia di templi fatti costruire dal faraone Ramses II nell’Antica Nubia, all’odierno confine fra l’Egitto e il Sudan. Un saggio che ne……続きを見る