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The Wisdom of Egypt : Changing Visions Through the Ages.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Encounters with Ancient Egypt SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315416885
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Wisdom of EgyptDDC classification:
  • 932.01
LOC classification:
  • DT61 -- .W573 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- A note on transliteration from ancient Egyptian -- 1 Introduction: Egypt Ancient and Modern -- 2 The Wisdom of Egypt: Classical Views -- 3 Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings -- 4 Images of Ancient Egypt in the Latin Middle Ages -- 5 The Renaissance Afterlife of Ancient Egypt (1400-1650) -- 6 Ancient Egypt in 17th and 18th Century England -- 7 Beyond Egyptology: Egypt in 19th and 20th Century Archaeology and Anthropology -- References -- Index.
Summary: The Wisdom of Egypt examines the sources of evidence about Ancient Egypt available to scholars, and the changing visions of Egypt and of Egypt's role in human history that they produced.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- A note on transliteration from ancient Egyptian -- 1 Introduction: Egypt Ancient and Modern -- 2 The Wisdom of Egypt: Classical Views -- 3 Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings -- 4 Images of Ancient Egypt in the Latin Middle Ages -- 5 The Renaissance Afterlife of Ancient Egypt (1400-1650) -- 6 Ancient Egypt in 17th and 18th Century England -- 7 Beyond Egyptology: Egypt in 19th and 20th Century Archaeology and Anthropology -- References -- Index.

The Wisdom of Egypt examines the sources of evidence about Ancient Egypt available to scholars, and the changing visions of Egypt and of Egypt's role in human history that they produced.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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