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Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak reat royal wife. God’s wife. Daughter of God. The ancient Egyptian language had Gno specific and separate word for ‘queen’ as we know it, yet for three thousand years, queens had occasion to share responsibility with Egypt’s pharaohs for ruling one of the most powerful countries of the ancient world. But were Egyptian queens ever the equal of their male counterparts? Could the authority of a woman measure up to the power of a male ruler in pharaonic times? Drawing upon written sources and the latest archaeological research, as well as myths, artwork, and religious texts, The Queens of Ancient Egypt attempts to answer these questions and more by examining the variety of roles of an Egyptian queen through time: queen consort, mother of kings, priestess, co-ruler with a pharaoh, or even sovereign in her own right. From Hatshepsut to Cleopatra, via Nefertiti and Nefertari, all the best known and lesser known queens of ancient Egypt are here. Over 250 color photographs of statues, paintings, and reliefs sup- plement the text. ROSANNA PIRELLI is a professor of Egyptology at the University of Naples L’Orientale. She has taken part in the excavation and study of numerous sites of Egyptian antiquity, including the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir al-Bahari and the pharaonic port of Wadi Gawasis. She has published exten- sively on topics ranging from archaic statuary, royal February iconography, and New Kingdom anthropology to 272pp. Hardbound Egyptian cults outside of Egypt. 26x36cm / 10x14in 280 color photographs DOROTHEA ARNOLD is Lila Acheson Wallace Curator ISBN 978 977 416 165 0 and chairman of the Department of Egyptian Art at LE350 / $59.95 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. For sale only in the Middle East 1 ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANCIENT EGYPT A new look at the work of ancient Egypt’s “Michelangelo” The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art in the British Museum Richard Parkinson Photography by Kevin Lovelock he eleven sections of wall-paint- ing from Nebamun’s lost tomb- Tchapel from c. 1350 BC are among the greatest and most famous of the British Museum’s treasures. The paintings decorated the walls of an Egyptian official’s tomb-chapel, dis- playing his status and activities in this life and the next. The accountant Nebamun, eternally youthful and vigor- ous, is shown hunting in the marshes and overseeing his servants and animals on the estate he managed. The paint- ings offer us fascinating glimpses of the Also available: world of ancient Egypt as the governing class The British Museum Book of wished it to be seen. Ancient visitors would bring Ancient Egypt offerings and prayers to Nebamun in this colorful Edited by A.J. Spencer chapel, and the paintings were intended to be seen and appreciated by visitors. Although they were The British Museum Dictionary of painted in a cemetery, they were created for Ancient Egypt esthetic reasons and were intended to captivate Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson their viewers. Their beauty and vitality is admira- bly captured in the new detailed photography Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt which has been taken especially for this book. Nigel Strudwick Richard Parkinson discusses the history of the paintings from ancient to modern times, and describes each painting fully, with translations of the hieroglyphic texts. Every fragment is fully illustrated in color with numerous details, doing full justice to these artists who have been described April as “antiquity’s equivalent of Michelangelo.” 152pp. Hardbound 21.5x27cm / 8.5x10.5in DR RICHARD PARKINSON is assistant keeper in the 150 illustrations incl. 120 in color Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the ISBN 978 977 416 164 3 British Museum. His other publications include LE150 / $29.95 Voices from Ancient Egypt and Pocket Guide to Ancient For sale only in the Middle East Egyptian Hieroglyphs. 2 ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANCIENT EGYPT Egypt’s ancient sites between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea The Red Land The Illustrated Archaeology of Egypt’s Eastern Desert Steven E. Sidebotham, Martin Hense, and Hendrikje M. Nouwens or thousands of years Egypt has crowded the Nile Valley and Delta. The Eastern FDesert, however, has also played a cru- cial—though until now little understood—role in Egyptian history. Ancient inhabitants of the Nile Valley feared the desert, which they referred to as the Red Land, and were reluctant to venture there, yet they exploited the extensive mineral wealth of this region. They also profited from the valuable wares conveyed across the desert between the Nile and the Red Sea ports, which originated from Arabia, Africa, India, and elsewhere in the east. Based on twenty years of archaeological field- work conducted in the Eastern Desert, The Red Land reveals the cultural and historical richness of this little known and seldom visited area of Egypt. A range of important archaeological sites dating from Prehistoric to Byzantine times is explored here in text and illustrations. Among these ancient treasures are petroglyphs, cemeteries, fortified wells, gold and emerald mines, hard stone quarries, roads, forts, ports, and temples. With 250 photo- graphs and fascinating artistic reconstructions based on the evidence on the ground, along with the latest research and accounts from ancient sources and modern travelers, the authors lead the reader into the remotest corners of the hauntingly beautiful Eastern Desert to discover the full story of the area’s human history. STEVEN E. SIDEBOTHAM is professor of classical archaeology and ancient history at the University of May Delaware. MARTIN HENSE has been a freelance art- 400pp. Hardbound ist and archaeologist specializing in ancient metal- 250 illustrations work on excavations in Syria and Egypt since 1994. ISBN 978 977 416 094 3 HENDRIKJE M. NOUWENS is an independent Egyp- LE180 / $39.50 tologist and archaeologist based in the Netherlands. For sale worldwide 3 ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANCIENT EGYPT The pageant of ancient Egyptian culture in full color Pharaonic Civilization History and Treasures of Ancient Egypt Giorgio Ferrero haraonic Civilization sheds light on the prin- cipal events, cultural and social processes, Pand religious beliefs that influenced and shaped the development and flowering of a civili- zation on the Nile that lasted for thousands of years. Almost from the time the Egyptian state came into being with the unification of the ‘Two King- doms,’ the pharaohs immortalized their lives and achievements with the construction of stone mon- uments.
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