The Pharaoh's Boat at the Carnegie
Title | The Pharaoh's Boat at the Carnegie PDF eBook |
Author | Diana Craig Patch |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 58 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
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Sacred and Secular
Title | Sacred and Secular PDF eBook |
Author | Cheryl A. Ward |
Publisher | Archaeological Institute of America |
Total Pages | 186 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
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Ancient Egyptian Ships and Boats. Soundly based on archaeological evidence, this is a detailed study of the ways in which Egyptians engineered, manufactured and used ancient vessels. Ward widens the discussion to consider ancient engineering and shipbuilding in general and considers the economic, cultural and political context of Egyptian ships and water transport.
Boats
Title | Boats PDF eBook |
Author | Dilwyn Jones |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | 104 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9780292740396 |
Drawing on archaeological and literary evidence, Dilwyn Jones examines the importance of the boat in Egyptian ritual and belief, as well as in everyday life. The sun god was thought to travel across the sky in a solar boat, and Egyptians believed that the deserving might join the god Osiris in his divine bark after death. Boats played an important part in funerary ritual; models were often placed in tombs to provide the deceased with safe passage through the Winding Waterway in the underworld. Also, boats are frequently depicted in tomb paintings. The Nile has always been a vital transport artery for Egypt and boats the principal means of travel. Early papyrus skiffs gradually gave way to wooden craft of increasing size and sophistication, ranging from fishing boats and barges to seagoing warships, splendid ships of state and enormous obelisk barges used to transport stone to temples and monuments. Dilwyn Jones traces the development of the different types of boats and the techniques of their construction through the Old, Middle, and New Kingdom periods. The book is illustrated with photographs of boat models and paintings and with line drawings.
Pharaoh's Boat
Title | Pharaoh's Boat PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | HMH Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | 48 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
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With poetic language and striking illustrations, Weitzman tells the story of how one of the greatest boats of ancient Egypt came to be built--and built again. In the shadow of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the most skilled shipwrights in all of Egypt are building an enormous vessel that will transport Cheops, the mighty pharaoh, across the winding waterway and into a new world. Pharaoh's boat will be a wonder to behold, and well prepared for the voyage ahead. But no one, not even the Egyptian king himself, could have imagined just where the journey of Pharaoh's boat would ultimately lead .s.s.
Cedar Forests, Cedar Ships
Title | Cedar Forests, Cedar Ships PDF eBook |
Author | Sara A. Rich |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2017-04-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1784913669 |
It is commonly recognized that the Cedars of Lebanon were prized in the ancient world, but how can the complex archaeological role of the Cedrus genus be articulated in terms that go beyond its interactions with humans alone?
Boats, Ships and Shipyards
Title | Boats, Ships and Shipyards PDF eBook |
Author | Carlo Beltrame |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 376 |
Release | 2016-10-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1785704621 |
From sewn planked boats in Early Dynastic Egypt to Late Roman wrecks in Italy, and the design of Venetian Merchant Galleys, this huge volume gathers together fifty-three papers presenting new research on the archaeology and history of ancient ships and shipbuilding traditions. The papers have been grouped into several thematic sections, including: ships of the Mediterranean; the reconstruction of ancient ships, from life-size reconstructions to computer models; the study of shipyards, shipsheds and slipways of the Mediterranean and Europe; Venetian Galleys of the 15th and 16th centuries; and North European medieval and post -medieval ships. These papers which were presented at the Ninth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology (ISBSA), held in Venice 2000. Carlo Beltrame is a free-lance archaeologist and contract professor of Maritime archaeology at Università Ca' Foscari of Venice and of Naval archaeology at Universita della Tuscia of Viterbo. He specialises in the archaeology of ship-construction from antiquity until the Renaissance period and methodology in maritime archaeology.
Hieroglyphic Egyptian
Title | Hieroglyphic Egyptian PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel L. Selden |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 2013-02-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0520275462 |
This book offers a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the oldest known recorded languages—Hieroglyphic Egyptian. Unlike other approaches, it is geared toward learning to read one of the masterpieces of Middle Egyptian literature, the story “Shipwrecked Sailor,” written around 2200 bce. The text’s eighteen lessons–organized around such topics as the body, flora, fauna, titles, administration, religion, sexuality, and warfare—cover all the basic grammar and syntax of Middle Egyptian. The book includes exercises for each chapter, sign lists, Egyptian/English and English/Egyptian dictionaries defining all the words and phrases used in the lessons, and a new edition of the tale “Shipwrecked Sailor” with facing commentary. Although the overall approach is literary, Hieroglyphic Egyptian can also be used as an introduction to reading other material, such as biographical inscriptions, religious texts, historical annals, and mathematical or medical papyri. The text is suitable for classroom use, as well as for those who want to learn independently.