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Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)

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Ian Bostridge (Tenor), Saskia Giorgini (Klavier)

Huw Twiston Davies

The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

Texts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or …

Paul McCartney

Wings Over America (remastered) (180g) (Limited-Edition)

Aidan Dodson,

The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives

The region of Nubia-now spanning the modern border between Egypt and Sudan-was long a subject of Egyptian imperial domination by its ancient pharaohs. However, in the eighth century BC matters were sudden…

Robert Morkot

A Short History of New Kingdom Egypt

Expertly taking readers through one of the most transformative periods in Ancient Egypt, Robert Morkot demonstrates how, under the pharaohs of the New Kingdom (c. 1550-1070 BCE), Egypt rose to be the larg…

Isabella Morris, Culture Smart!

Egypt - Culture Smart!

Don't just see the sights―get to know the people. At first sight, modern-day Egypt is an unruly and chaotic place: a cacophony of sounds, an overload of smells, and a swirling visual feast. Ancient churc…

Nicky Nielsen

Subsistence Strategies and Craft Production at the Ancient Egyptian Ramesside Fort of Zawiyet Umm El-Rakham

Drawing on more than 20 years of archaeological study and investigation at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham by a team from the University of Liverpool (led by Professor Steven Snape), this book paints a nuanced pict…

Kevin F Kiley

An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of the Greek World

A detailed study of the fighting men of Classical Greece and the Ancient World, including Sumerians, Assyrians, Hittites, Egyptians, Mycenaeans, Spartans, Persians and Macedonians

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History

The essays in this Oxford Handbook rethink the modern history of one of the most important and influential countries in the Middle East--Egypt. For a country and region so often understood in terms of rel…

Bettany Hughes

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

"For millennia, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have been known for their aesthetic sublimity, ingenious engineering, and sheer, audacious magnitude: The Great Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens…

Irene Vallejo,

Papyrus

A rich exploration of the importance of books and libraries in the ancient world that highlights how humanity's obsession with the printed word has echoed throughout the ages - "Accessible and entertainin…

Maria Golia

A Short History of Tomb-Raiding

A spine-tingling exploration of a venture as ancient as the pyramids themselves. To secure a comfortable afterlife, ancient Egyptians built fortress-like tombs and filled them with precious goods, a pra…

Harry Pettit

The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt

"Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as declines in employment and widening inequality are push…

Maged Mandour

Egypt under El-Sisi

Since the coup of 2013 ended Egypt`s brief democratic experiment and retired army chief, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, became president of Egypt, his regime has unleashed mass repression and severe restrictions o…

Kathleen Sheppard

Women in the Valley of the Kings

The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the sto…

Yasmin Moll

The Revolution Within

The New Preachers of Egypt-so named because of their novel preaching styles, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to self-help-came to prominence on the world's first Islamic television ch…

Yasmin Moll

The Revolution Within

The New Preachers of Egypt-so named because of their novel preaching styles, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to self-help-came to prominence on the world's first Islamic television ch…

Roberta Mazza

Stolen Fragments

"In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact - a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from …

John David Hawkins,

Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions

Luwian and the closely related Hittite are the oldest known languages of the Indo-European group. Luwian is written in two scripts: Cuneiform and its own Hieroglyphic, which survives mostly on stone monum…