Current Research in Egyptology 2011: Proceedings of the by Heba Abd El Gawad,Nathalie Andrews,Maria

By Heba Abd El Gawad,Nathalie Andrews,Maria Correas-Amador,Veronica Tamorri

The 12th annual present study in Egyptology symposium aimed to focus on the multidisciplinary nature of the sector of Egyptology. Papers in those lawsuits replicate this multidisciplinarity, with learn in response to Archaeology, Linguistics, Cultural Astronomy, Historiography, Botany, faith and legislations, among others. by way of one or a number of of those disciplines, individuals to this quantity procedure a wide diversity of matters spanning from Prehistory to trendy Egypt, together with: self-presentation, id, provenance and museum reports, funerary paintings and practices, family structure, fabric tradition, mythology, faith, trade, economic climate, dream interpretation and the start of Egyptology as a discipline.

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