Omm Setys Living Egypt

Author : Omm Sety
Publisher : Glyphdoctors
ISBN 13 : 0979202302
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Omm Sety's Living Egypt written by Omm Sety and published by Glyphdoctors. This book was released on 2008 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special connection with ancient Egypt drew Omm Sety to Egypt, where she studied with the great Egyptologists Selim Hassan and Ahmed Fakhry. For more than four decades she made her home in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza and in the mudbrick village surrounding the Temple of Sety I at Abydos. For her, there was no separation between ancient and modern Egypt. Pictures on tomb walls illustrated the games children played in the streets in front of her house. The texts she translated from the temple walls shed light on the origins of the social customs of her Egyptian neighbors. For another four decades this book, which deserves to be called Omm Sety's life work, remained hidden away. Now Nicole B. Hansen, an Egyptologist who specializes in connections between ancient and modern Egypt, brings this work to light in an annotated edition with extensive notes and bibliography, illustrated with Omm Sety's own drawings. It features a foreword by Kent R. Weeks, who rediscovered KV5 in the Valley of the Kings, and an introduction by Walter A. Fairservis, the late director of the Hierakonpolis Project. For Egyptologists, this book includes explanations of texts from the Pyramid Texts to Herodotus as well as ancient Egyptian art. For anthropologists, it represents the results of a lifetime of unbridled participant-observation, during which Omm Sety used folk treatments to cure her ills and agreed to serve as a medium for a spirit during a magic ritual. For those interested in Omm Sety herself, this book provides new insights into her life, the people she knew and the places she lived.

Author : Hanny El Zeini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Omm Sety's Egypt written by Hanny El Zeini and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelations in Egyptology, based on the diaries of Dorothy Eady, better known as Omm Sety. Omm Sety, a brilliant, adventuring Englishwoman, worked under some of the greatest Egyptologists of the 20th century and "saw" into the past. Hers is a story of ancient love - of gods, pyramids, pharaohs and queens, and treasures that wait beneath the sand. In Omm Sety's Egypt, the authors present never-before-seen episodes from her truly incredible life, including important revelations about Egypt's lost history. Hanny el Zeini was her close friend during the many years she lived in the ancient holy city of Abydos. It was a friendship filled with star-lit evenings among the ruins of ancient temples, speaking of the mysteries of this land they both loved. Dr. el Zeini was her trusted confidant to whom she revealed her secret other life in 19th Dynasty Egypt. Shortly before her death in 1981, she gave him her diaries, which chronicled her life in two worlds. Drawing on Omm Sety's diaries and on hundreds of hours of recorded conversations and Dr. el Zeini's own writings, co-author Catherine Dees brings this extraordinary material together into a story that asks the reader to suspend disbelief and enter into the mystery that was Omm Sety.

Author : Jonathan Cott
Publisher : Aspect
ISBN 13 : 9780446390408
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Search for Omm Sety written by Jonathan Cott and published by Aspect. This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one woman's search for the previous life she led in ancient Egypt, written by a Rolling Stone and New Yorker journalist.

Author : Omm Sety
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abydos written by Omm Sety and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dorothy Louise Eady
Publisher : [Mississauga, Ont.] : Benben Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780920808092
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Omm Sety's Abydos written by Dorothy Louise Eady and published by [Mississauga, Ont.] : Benben Publications. This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal history and guide to the ritual site of Abydos, on the West bank of the Nile, which flourished from the Predynastic period until Christian times (c. 4000 BC to AD 641). The author moved to Egypt in 1933 and was involved in excavations with a number of Egyptian archaeologists.

Author : James A. Corrick
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1429654066
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gritty, Stinky Ancient Egypt written by James A. Corrick and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes disgusting details about daily life in ancient Egypt, including housing, food, and sanitation"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 075653836X
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ramses II written by Stephanie Fitzgerald and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2009 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramses the 2nd was one of the greatest pharaohs to rule ancient Egypt. Throughout his reign, he ordered the construction of more temples and monuments than any other ruler. His accomplishments and long-lasting rein earned him the title of Ramses the Great.

Author : Jan Assmann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801464862
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt written by Jan Assmann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in ancient Egypt to provide startling new insights into the particular character of the civilization as a whole. Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, he arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt. Assmann describes in detail nine different images of death: death as the body being torn apart, as social isolation, the notion of the court of the dead, the dead body, the mummy, the soul and ancestral spirit of the dead, death as separation and transition, as homecoming, and as secret. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt also includes a fascinating discussion of rites that reflect beliefs about death through language and ritual.

Author : Muata Ashby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781884564741
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kemetic Tree of Life Ancient Egyptian Metaphysics and Cosmology for Higher Consciousness written by Muata Ashby and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashby explains the Tree of Life metaphysical teachings, disciplines, and techniques from the hieroglyphic texts.

Author : Brian M. Fagan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egypt of the Pharaohs written by Brian M. Fagan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Egyptians gave us the great pyramids, the Sphinx, magnificent treasures, and some of the most beautiful art and architecture in history. Brian Fagan, a renowned lecturer and professor of archaeology, makes this ancient civilization come alive, taking the reader on an unforgettable journey, spanning 6,000 years, into the world of Seti, Ramses II, Tutankhamun, and other pharaohs who left evidence of their mighty achievements. Egypt of the Pharaohs weaves together fascinating details of daily life and dynastic intrigue and also delves into the generations of explorers, treasure hunters, and archaeologists who--not always with honorable objectives--searched, studied, and plundered Egypt s past glories. The search goes on, and Brian Fagan relates the latest findings of modern-day archaeologists who continue to unearth fresh evidence of how ancient Egyptians lived and died. Stunning photographs--many never before seen--enrich this comprehensive and engrossing work. Egypt of the Pharaohs will be irrestible to armchair Egyptologists and all those eager to learn more about a civilization that still exerts a powerful hold on the imagination. Zahi Hawass, director general of the Pyramids and author of Valley of the Golden Mummies, discusses the scope of the book in his foreword.