Search Results - "Ancient Egypt"

Readings in Art history : ancient Egypt through the middle ages.

Subjects: “…Ancient Egypt through the middle ages.…”

Royal bronze statuary from ancient Egypt with special attention to the kneeling pose / by Hill, Marsha, 1949-

Subjects: “…Bronze sculpture, Ancient Egypt.…”
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Cairo histories of a city / by AlSayyad, Nezar

Table of Contents: “…Preamble : reading and writing Cairo -- Memphis : the first Cairo -- From ancient Egypt to the Coptic enclave -- Fustat-Misr : the city of Arab Islam -- Al-Qahira : a Fatimid palatial town -- Fortress Cairo : from Salah Al-Din to the Pearl Tree -- The Bahri Mamluks : the city of the slave sultans -- Governing from the tower : the Burji Mamluks -- A provincial capital under Ottoman rule -- A changing city : from Napoleon to Muhammad Ali -- Modernizing the new, medievalizing the old : the city of the Khedive -- The Arab republic and the city of Nasser -- Escaping the present, consuming the past.…”
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