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  • The Oldest Book in the World

    Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids

    by Bill Manley ...
    A new translation of a philosophical and practical advice classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp, written in Egypt four thousand years ago and still relevant for modern readers today.Noted author and Egyptologist Bill Manley renders into approachable modern English for the first time the oldest surviving statement of philosophy from the ancient world: the thirty-seven teachings and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Egyptian Art (World of Art)

    by Bill Manley ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    An insightful volume delving into the enduringly compelling art of ancient Egypt, from a new historical perspectiveThe art and architecture of Egypt during the age of the pharaohs continue to capture the imagination of the modern world. Among the great creative achievements of ancient Egypt are a set of constant forms: archetypes in art and architecture in which the origins of concepts such as ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • Writing Hieroglyphics (with Actual Examples!) : History Kids Books | Children's Ancient History

    by Baby Professor ...
    Do you want to learn how to write hieroglyphics? It’s an ancient form of Egyptian writing that is composed of drawings. It’s a beautiful writing style that was instrumental in learning about the life of ancient Egyptians. There are actual examples in this book to serve as your guide. Are you ready? Then begin writing hieroglyphics today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Art of the Devil

    Diabolic imagery, myth, and temptation in art

    by Arturo Graf, ...
    “The Devil holds the strings which move us!” (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857.) Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer… the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always served artists as a source of inspiration. Often commissioned by religious leaders as images of fear or veneration, depending on the society, representations of the underworld served to instruct believers and lead them ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Birth of Western Painting (Routledge Revivals)

    A History of Colour, Form and Iconography

    by Robert Byron, David Talbot Rice ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1930, this book deals with Byzantine art, not as an isolated province, but as one intimately connected with the subsequent history of European painting. After a summary of the whole question in its relation to modern art, the second chapter opens with a novel analysis of the iconoclast controversy, and shows how it was only by this movement that Hellenistic naturalism was ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour

    by Alexandre G. Mitchell ...
    This book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, with special emphasis on works created in Athens and Boeotia. Alexandre G. Mitchell brings an interdisciplinary approach to this topic, combining theories and methods of art history, archaeology and classics with the anthropology of humour, and thereby establishing new ways of looking at art and visual humour in particular. ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

  • The Framing of Sacred Space

    The Canopy and the Byzantine Church

    by Jelena Bogdanovic ...
    The Framing of Sacred Space offers the first topical study of canopies as essential spatial and symbolic units in Byzantine-rite churches. Centrally planned columnar structures--typically comprised of four columns and a roof--canopies had a critical role in the modular processes of church design, from actual church furnishings in the shape of a canopy to the church's structural core. As ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Treasury of Ancient Egypt (Illustrated)

    by Arthur Weigall ...
    No person who has travelled in Egypt will require to be told that it isa country in which a considerable amount of waiting and waste oftime has to be endured. One makes an excursion by train to see someruins, and, upon returning to the station, the train is found to be late,and an hour or more has to be dawdled away. Crossing the Nile in arowing-boat the sailors contrive in one way or another to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

    by Louise Steel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Archaeology
    The importance of cultural contacts in the East Mediterranean has long been recognized and is the focus of ongoing international research. Fieldwork in the Aegean, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Levant continues to add to our understanding of the nature of this contact and its social and economic significance, particularly to the cultures of the Aegean. Despite sophisticated discussion of the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD