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This is the first publication to analyse fully the significance of faience in ancient Egypt, and to present the most marvellous examples of its creation. The editor shows how faience was used and produced, as well as its symbolic values.

The female pharaoh Hatshepsut reigned for nearly twenty years during Egypt's early New Kingdom in the fifteenth century B.C. First acting as regent for her young nephew/stepson Thutmose III, she in time assumed the title of king and exercised the…

Ancient Iranian literature / James R. Russell -- The functions of the sage in the Egyptian royal court / Ronald J. Williams -- The sage in Mesopotamian palaces and royal courts / Roanld F.G. Sweet -- The scribe (and sage) in the royal court at Ugarit…

"The Egyptian Old Kingdom (c. 26502150 BC) was an era of extraordinary artistic achievement-the period that gave us the Sphinx and the pyramids as well as a rich legacy of private tombs, wall paintings, reliefs, statuary, jewelry, and decorative…

This book brings together twenty articles giving a comprehensive view of the work of the Aristotelian commentators. ... The importance of the commentators is partly that they represent the thought and classroom teaching of the Aristotelian and…