Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2018. — 876 p. The ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books are among the most extensive religious texts from pharaonic civilization and present humanity's oldest surviving attempts to provide a scientific map of the unseen realms beyond the visible cosmos. First attested during the middle of the second millennium BCE, the Netherworld Books...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 352 p. At the end of the 19th century W.M.F. Petrie excavated a series of assemblages at the New Kingdom Fayum site of Gurob. These deposits, known in the Egyptological literature as 'Burnt Groups', were composed by several and varied materials (mainly Egyptian and imported pottery, faience, stone and wood vessels, jewellery), all deliberately...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 139 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 46). This book publishes a previously unknown collection of hieratic ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The texts include a broad range of genres, including wisdom literature, religious hymns, magical texts, medical recipes, private letters, administrative notes, scribal...
Oxbow Books, 2012. — 208 p. Living with the Dead presents a detailed analysis of ancestor worship in Egypt, using a diverse range of material, both archaeological and anthropological, to examine the relationship between the living and the dead. Iconography and terminology associated with the deceased reveal indistinct differences between the blessedness and malevolence and that...
Lockwood Press, 2016. — 498 p. Illuminating Osiris comprises twenty-seven articles by students, friends, and colleagues in honor of Mark Smith, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford. Smith is especially renowned as a Demoticist and specialist in ancient Egyptian religion. His numerous Demotic text editions and translations of Egyptian funerary and religious...
Head of Zeus, 2016. — 352 p. The Pyramid Texts were carved onto the walls of burial chambers in royal pyramids 4,000 years ago. They have intrigued scholars, mystics and historians ever since they were discovered in 1881. They have usually been misconstrued as a garbled collection of primitive myths and incantations, relegating their radiant fusion of philosophy, scientific...
Routledge, 2009. — 206 p. Across the world, various peoples since ancient times have consumed alcoholic drinks. Although the origin of the practice will never be known for certain, a search for the historical source of this impulse of human society has produced a variety of explanations. The ancient Chinese, for example, placed the creation of alcoholic beverage in the...
Classical Press of Wales, 2003. — 237 p. A comprehensive study of dreams as they were perceived and interpreted by the Egyptians in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC - from Old Kingdom to New Kingdom. The author examines the various roles dreams could play in ancient Egyptian society, whether political, religious, magical, or literary. Also considered is the value of...
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