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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Old Kingdom"”.
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It's a kind of magic: exploring the role of the living in effecting food and drink offerings in private mortuary cults of late Old Kingdom Egypt
… and objects from a number of elite late Old Kingdom tombs (c.2492 2181 BCE) at Saqqara. These demonstrate that tomb design incorporated different modes to communicate salient information about the cult to the living: it took into account their varying literacy and resource levels as did …
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The Development of the Justice in Ancient Egypt from the Old to the Middle Kingdom
… the earlier periods of its history, namely the Old and Middle Kingdoms (c.2700-1700BCE). In doing so, it adopts a multifaceted approach encompassing not only detailed analysis of Egyptian textual sources, but also harnessing recent theoretical developments in legal anthropology and ethnographic …
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Death and Self-Identity in the Contemporary Fantasies of Philip Pullman, Garth Nix, and Steven Erikson
… Pullman’s His Dark Materials, Garth Nix’s The Old Kingdom, and Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen to explore how each representation of the three forms of death and their interrelations allows for more nuanced readings of the texts themselves, while also reflecting dominant social …
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Landscape and environmental changes at Memphis during the dynastic period in Egypt
… and during the Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom, the city grew on the western cluster of sandbanks while the West Channel was losing flow. During the First Intermediate Period and the beginning of the Middle Kingdom extreme floods significantly affected the settlement. It recovered …
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Ecoconscious: Skilful Sensing in Young Adult Fantasy Literature
… their distinctive nonhuman voices. Garth Nix’s "Old Kingdom" series, Patrick Ness’s "Chaos Walking" trilogy, and Nicky Singer’s "Island" all depict protagonists learning almost-lost skills of listening needed to participate in certain places, partly through education by Indigenous cultures. The …
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Complexity of Ancient Egyptian Society during the First to SixthDynasty Based on Written Sources - The case of Egyptian households
… on written sources - The case of Egyptian households Abstrakt Předkládaná disertační práce se zaměřuje na vývoj složitosti Egyptské společnosti v období od První do Šesté dynastie. Vývoj společnosti sleduje na proměně její základní jednotky, egyptské domácnosti, jejíž vzorce prostupují mnoho sfér …