Nigel Strudwick Boeken

This is a beginner's field guide to hieroglyphs, enabling readers to decipher for themselves some of the many inscriptions they may come across in Egyptian civilisation.

Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt is the first illustrated guide to the highlights of the British Museum's wonderful collection.

Ancient Egypt is well known for its towering monuments and magnificent statuary, but other aspects of its civilization are less well known, especially its written texts. Now Texts from the Pyramid Age provides ready access to new translations of a representative selection of texts ranging from the historically significant to the repetitive formulae of the tomb inscriptions from Old Kingdom Egypt (ca. 2700-2170 B.C.). These royal and private inscriptions, coming from both the secular and religious milieus and from all kinds of physical contexts, not only shed light on the administration, foreign expeditions, and funerary beliefs of the period but also bring to life the Egyptians themselves, revealing how they saw the world and how they wanted the world to see them. Strudwick’s helpful introduction to the history and literature of this seminal period provides important background for reading and understanding these historical texts. Like other volumes in the Writings from the Ancient World series, this work will soon become a standard with students and scholars alike.

The proceedings from the 2008 meeting of the Computer Working Group of the International Association of Egyptologists present a collection of papers focused on the intersection of technology and Egyptology. Topics include advancements in databases, complex systems, 3D modeling, and textual analysis systems. Additionally, the proceedings explore innovative uses of the internet for sharing photographs and bibliographic resources, highlighting the importance of digital tools in the study and preservation of ancient Egyptian culture.