Screen LibraryPharaoh's land and beyond : Ancient Egypt and its neighbors /
The concept of pharaonic Egypt as a unified, homogeneous, and isolated cultural entity is misleading. Ancient Egypt was a rich tapestry of social, religious, technological, and economic interconnections among numerous cultures from disparate lands. In fifteen chapters divided into five thematic grou...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
The concept of pharaonic Egypt as a unified, homogeneous, and isolated cultural entity is misleading. Ancient Egypt was a rich tapestry of social, religious, technological, and economic interconnections among numerous cultures from disparate lands. In fifteen chapters divided into five thematic groups, Pharaoh's Land and Beyond uniquely examines Egypt's relationship with its wider world. The first section details the geographical contexts of interconnections by examining ancient Egyptian exploration, maritime routes, and overland passages. In the next section, chapters address the human principals of association: peoples, with the attendant difficulties of differentiating ethnic identities from the record; diplomatic actors, with their complex balances and presentations of power; and the military, with its evolving role in pharaonic expansion. Natural events, from droughts and floods to illness and epidemics, also played significant roles in this ancient world, as examined in the third section. The final two sections explore the physical manifestations of interconnections between pharaonic Egypt and its neighbors, first in the form of material objects and second, in the powerful exchange of ideas. Whether through diffusion and borrowing of knowledge and technology, through the flow of words by script and literature, or through exchanges in the religious sphere, the pharaonic Egypt that we know today was constantly changing--and changing the cultures around it. This illustrious work represents the first synthesis of these cultural relationships, unbounded by time, geography, or mode. -- |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-331) and indexes. |
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9780190229078 0190229071 |
| Index Number: | DT83 |
| CLC: | K411.03 |
| Call Number: | K411.03/P536 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Finding the Beyond: Exploration / Paths in the Deep: Maritime Connections / Pathways to Distant Kingdoms: Land Connections / Children of Other Gods: Social Interactions / Between Brothers: Diplomatic Interactions / The Armies of Re / The Long Arm of Merchantry: Trade Interactions / Artisans and Their Products: Interaction in Art and Architecture / Traded, Copied, and Kept: The Ubiquitous Appeal of Scarabs / Technology in Transit: The Borrowing of Ideas in Science and Craftwork / The Flow of Words: Interaction in Writing and Literature during the Bronze Age -- Part I: Writing Systems: Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs in the Bronze Age: Script Contact and the Creation of New Scripts / Part II: Literature: Egyptian and Levantine Belles-Lettres-Links and Influences during the Bronze Age / All Gods Are Our Gods: Religious Interaction -- Part I: "From Bes to Baal": Religious Interconnections between Egypt and the East / Part II: Egypt and Nubia / Part III: Religious Interaction between Egypt and the Aegean in the 2nd Millennium BCE / Violence in Earth, Water and Sky: Geological Hazards / The Fickle Nile: Effects of Droughts and Floods / Illness from Afar: Epidemics and Their Aftermath / |