Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces Hardback
Edited by Miroslav Barta, Jiri Janak
Part of the New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology series
Hardback
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Ever since Herodotus, it has been observed that Egypt – that is, ancient Egyptian civilisation – was a gift of the Nile.
However, only recently have Egyptologists come to appreciate that Egypt was as much a gift of the desert as a gift of the water, at least as regards its very beginnings.
To understand the civilisation that originally settled along the Nile Valley and in the Delta, we must study not only the remains of ancient monuments, excavated artefacts and reconstructed texts, but take proper account of the landscape, conditions and environment that shaped Egypt’s culture, religion and ideology.
This volume addresses various aspects of how the world was perceived in the minds of Egyptians, and how Egyptians subsequently reshaped their surrounding landscape in harmony with their view of geography and cosmological ideas.
Profane landscape and sacred space thus blend into one multi-faceted concept.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:318 pages, 100 figures; some in colour
- Publisher:Equinox Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date:30/03/2020
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- ISBN:9781781794098
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:318 pages, 100 figures; some in colour
- Publisher:Equinox Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date:30/03/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781781794098
