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Texts from the Pyramid Age
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NIGEL c. STRUDWICK, Texts from the Pyramid Age (SBLWAW 16; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005). Pp. xxxvii + 522. Paper $39.95.
Previous generations seeking English compendia of ancient Egyptian historical sources were largely restricted to James Henry Breasted 's Ancient Records of Egypt. But as thorough as Breasted's work is, the Old Kingdom is underrepresented and required updating in light of archaeological discoveries in the century since its publication. Happily, Nigel...
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Queen's furnishings on display at MFA
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Virtual explorers comb Egypt's ruins
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The Arab American News
; A large royal storehouse and administrative building unearthed last season to the south-east of the Great Sphinx at Giza has once again focused attention on the Age of the Pyramid Builders. Routine excavations on the Giza Plateau by the Chicago Harvard University Giza Mapping Project have unearthed
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Out to lunch with the Pharaohs
Evening Standard - London
; THE crowds that milled and surged in front of Harrods' glass doors at the bargain hour of nine o'clock on Wednesday morning did not look like people who needed to save a couple of quid here and there. The mixture of foreign tourists and Home Counties trippers all appeared to have already drunk deep
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Inside the Mummy's tombs; The pyramids pioneer who has inspired a movie monster.
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; Byline: ANNA MELVILLE-JAMES ANCIENT Egypt's obsession with the afterlife has earned Hollywood's undying-gratitude over the years. The mummy Imhotep, originally immortalised on film by Boris Karloff, rises from another cursed burial this week in a new movie The Mummy Returns. But it's lucky for
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International Herald Tribune
; John Noble Wilford International Herald Tribune 01-11-2007 Before the great pyramids, ancient Egyptian kings left less grandiose monuments to themselves: fortresslike sanctuaries enclosed by mud-brick walls. Inside these mortuary complexes, people presumably gathered to worship and perpetuate the
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The likely effects of ageing on women's involvement in the paid workforce.
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First tomb since Tut found in Valley of the Kings: Contains 5 coffins thought to be over 3,000 years old
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