March 2012 | Ancient Egyptian Scribes

Daughters of Gaia: Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The study of women in antiquity has already seen a great deal of important scholarship. In this book, the author undertakes a sweeping synthesis in a very small compass. She examines women's lives in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome in a time span ranging from the Neolithic to the fifth century...

Amarna: Ancient Egypt's Age of Revolution Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Having THE EGYPTIANS from Barbara Watterson, I was delighted to obtain this book also. I've had both these books in my home library for close to a decade now and value both of them. I realize some reviewers enjoy the work of other writers but don't see the need to disparage the honest work of other learned...

History of Ancient Egypt: An Introduction Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Extremely well translated by American Egyptologist David Lorton, Hornung's book covers the history of Ancient Egypt from its Archaic to its Late Periods. It provides a concise description of important events through historical facts. A thorough yet brief explanation of political, economical, social,...

Growing Up In Ancient Egypt Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I would say this book is written for the 9 - 13 year old group. It is fun to read with nice illustrations, and told in a story-like manner. The problem with that is that it seems very fictional. Why does the author suggest that this is how ancient Egyptians lived? There is not much information about...

Egyptian Grammar (Dictionary) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As the student (or aspiring sesh-per-ankh) may have judged by the price, this is meant to be a college textbook. On the bright side, don't worry about backorders-- a fourth edition is on its way for next semester to provide the necessary kickbacks for the professors. Where was I? Ah-- I own quite a few...

Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This relatively slim but heavily footnoted volume by Professor Hoffmeier constitutes one of the most recent additions to the ongoing debate on ancient Israel's origins. The author begins with the proposition that while no direct archæological evidence for the Exodus has been discovered to date, indirect...

Egypt vs. Greece and the American Academy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Egypt vs. Greece And The American Academy: The Debate Over The Birth Of Civilization collaboratively edited by Molefi Asante (Professor of African American Studies, Temple University) and Ama Mazama (Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies, Temple University) is a selection of erudite,...

Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection, Vol. 1 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The legend of Osiris says he was murdered by his brother Seth and resurrected, with the aid of his wife Isis, thus becoming god of the underworld. The author believes he is one of the most important ancient Egyptian deities, with his origins in the Predynastic Era. He attempts to establish a relationship...

The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The over-riding theme of Manly P. Hall's book is that the most basic secret teaching is that one should overcome your animal, lower, inferior nature of lust, hatred, and greed and become more spiritual, realizing that this world is an illusion, which isn't your true home, and your body is not your true...

Egyptian Art (Basic Art) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've been in the language business for 27 years. As soon as I started reading this book, I thought it must be translated. I looked for a translation credit, but could only find the names of the authors and an editor. This book contains very simplistic text, incomplete sentences, grammatical errors, and...

British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In 240 densely informative, generously illustrated pages we get thorough overviews of ancient Egypt's religion, funerary customs, language and writing, art and architecture, and technology, along with chapters on the country's geography, history and relations with other powers. The information is authoritative--the...

Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am big fan of Tyldesley, having read her other book 'Daughters of Isis', a study of women in ancient Egypt. She is a very well researched scholar who stays to the tradition of stating all the possible interpretations of her data.Overall I found her writing to be easy to read, but as a classics minor...

Stolen Legacy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Hotep,I first read this book when I was 11 or 12 and I really liked it then. Unfortunately, this book is hideously flawed with regard to accuracy. As I grew older and increased my personal knowledge of Kemet/Egypt the inadequacy of this work became ridiculously obvious. James' representations of Kemetic...

Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts: The Mystical Tradition of Ancient Egypt Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Jeremy Naydler has rescued the deep wisdom of Egypt - experiential insight into the deeper reality and how we can travel there for initiation and empowerment - from the Egyptologists. For all of us who have long suspected, or remembered, that the palace tombs and pyramid texts of Egypt are about much,...

Awesome Egyptians (Horrible Histories TV Tie in) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I bought this book for my son who is an avid reader of anything Egyptian and he devoured it happily. He found the interesting facts hard to resist and shared them with all of us. As a professional historian, I usually eschew things like this but I found it engaging when I read it. This is the type of...

Egyptian's Sacred Rite: An Ancient Practice in a Modern World Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The worst thing ever in print, I have seen better information published by LLewelyn and Dover. What little there was, dreadfully innacurate. References were all fourth hand research, pictures lifted off the web, and entire sections of content plagiarized. Written mostly in the first and second person,...

Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt: Awakening the Healing Power of the Heart Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt" is a wonderful melding of Linda Star Wolf's channeled wisdom and Nicki Scully's placing this wisdom in a context that can be placed into the reader's life. Through story, meditation, visualization, and ritual,Scully and Star Wolf take us deeply into the world of Egyptian...