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From slave to pharaoh : the black experience of ancient Egypt / by Redford, Donald B.

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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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Anaximander and the architects the contributions of Egyptian and Greek architectural technologies to the origins of Greek philosophy / by Hahn, Robert, 1952-

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Swifter than the arrow the golden hunting hounds of ancient Egypt / by Rice, Michael, 1928-

“…Golden hunting hounds of ancient Egypt…”
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Incestuous and close-kin marriage in ancient Egypt and Persia : an examination of the evidence / by Frandsen, Paul John, 1943-

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Great ancient Egypt projects you can build yourself by Van Vleet, Carmella

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The quick and the dead biomedical theory in ancient Egypt / by Gordon, Andrew H. (Andrew Hunt)

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The birth of the state : ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China / by Charv�at, Petr

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Experiencing power, generating authority : cosmos, politics, and the ideology of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia /

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Image of God in the garden of Eden : the Creation of humankind in Genesis 2:5-3:24 in light of the mis pi pit pi and wpt-r rituals of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt / by McDowell, Catherine L.

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Historical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian funerary culture : religious ideas and ritual practice in Middle Kingdom elite cemeteries / by Willems, Harco

Subjects: “…Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient Egypt.…”
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SPOTLIGHT ON THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MEDICINE. by Eltorai, Ibrahim M.

Table of Contents: “…; Historical Overview of Ancient Egypt; Outline of Ancient Egyptian History; Suggested Readings on Ancient Egyptian History; Chapter 2 The Egyptian Land; Chapter 3 The Diet, Hygiene, and Social Life; Suggested Readings on Diet, Hygiene, and Social Life; Chapter 4 The Afterlife in Ancient Egyptian Beliefs; Methods of Embalming; Suggested Readings on Methods of Embalming; Chapter 5 Medicine, Religion, and Magic; Medicine and Religion in 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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Shipwrecked : disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world / by Morrison, James V., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Shipwreck and opportunity from Ancient Egypt to the modern Caribbean -- 4. The struggle for power in Shakespeare's The Tempest -- 5. …”
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Shipwrecked : Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World / by Morrison, James V., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Shipwreck and Opportunity from Ancient Egypt to the Modern Caribbean -- 4. The Struggle for Power in Shakespeare's The Tempest -- 5. …”
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Imagining creation

Table of Contents: “…Lambert -- Creation stories in ancient Egypt / Stephen Quirke -- You can't get here from there : the logical paradox of ancient Indian creation myths / Wendy Doniger -- Stories of the beginning : origin myths in Africa south of the Sahara / Mineke Schipper -- Modern Jewish attitudes to the concept of myth / Wout Jac. van Bekkum -- Extract from Genesis 1-2 translation and commentary, Norton, NY 1996 / Robert Alter -- The Bible in the making : Slavonic creation stories / Florentina Badalanova -- Arab creation stories beyond the pale / Abdullah al-Udhari -- Lurianic creation myths / Daphne Freedman.…”
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Conflicted Antiquities : Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity / by Colla, Elliott, 1965-

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Violence and civilization : studies of social violence in history and prehistory /

Table of Contents: “…Sacrifice -- Introduction to Part I -- Dramas of the dialectic : sacrifice and power in ancient polities / Edward Swenson -- (Un)dying loyalty : meditations on retainer sacrifice in ancient Egypt and elsewhere / Ellen F. Morris -- Transformations of violence : on humanity and inhumanity in early China / Roderick Campbell -- Part II. …”
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Egypt a short history : with a new afterword by the author / by Tignor, Robert L.

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Bodily fluids in antiquity /

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