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In this absorbing introduction, Ian Shaw, one of the foremost authorities on Ancient Egypt, describes how our current ideas about Egypt are based not only on the thrilling discoveries made by early Egyptologists but also on fascinating new kinds of evidence produced by modern scientific and linguistic analyses. He also explores the changing influences on our responses to these finds, by examining the impact of Egyptology on various aspects of popular culture such as literature, cinema, opera, and contemporary art. He considers all aspects of ancient Egyptian culture, from tombs and mummies to the discovery of artifacts and the decipherment of hieroglyphs, and from despotic pharaohs to animal-headed gods. From the general reader interested in Ancient Egypt, to students and teachers of ancient history and archaeology, to museum-goers, this Very Short Introduction will not disappoint.
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Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction
Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide.
The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology.
Very Short Introductions available now:
ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw
Continental Philosophy
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Simon Critchley
Julia Annas
COSMOLOGY Peter Coles
THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE
CRYPTOGRAPHY
John Blair
Fred Piper and Sean Murphy
ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia
DADA AND SURREALISM
ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn
David Hopkins
ARCHITECTURE
Darwin Jonathan Howard
Andrew Ballantyne
Democracy Bernard Crick
ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes
DESCARTES Tom Sorell
ART HISTORY Dana Arnold
DRUGS Leslie Iversen
ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland
THE EARTH Martin Redfern
THE HISTORY OF
EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch
ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
Atheism Julian Baggini
BRITAIN Paul Langford
Augustine Henry Chadwick
THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball
BARTHES Jonathan Culler
EMOTION Dylan Evans
THE BIBLE John Riches
EMPIRE Stephen Howe
BRITISH POLITICS
ENGELS Terrell Carver
Anthony Wright
Ethics Simon Blackburn
Buddha Michael Carrithers
The European Union
BUDDHISM Damien Keown
John Pinder
CAPITALISM James Fulcher
EVOLUTION
THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe
Brian and Deborah Charlesworth
CHOICE THEORY
FASCISM Kevin Passmore
Michael Allingham
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson
William Doyle
CLASSICS Mary Beard and
FREE WILL Thomas Pink
John Henderson
Freud Anthony Storr
CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard
Galileo Stillman Drake
THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon
Gandhi Bhikhu Parekh
GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger
PLATO Julia Annas
HEGEL Peter Singer
POLITICS Kenneth Minogue
HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson
David Miller
HINDUISM Kim Knott
POSTCOLONIALISM
HISTORY John H. Arnold
Robert Young
HOBBES Richard Tuck
POSTMODERNISM
HUME A. J. Ayer
Christopher Butler
IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden
POSTSTRUCTURALISM
Indian Philosophy
Catherine Belsey
Sue Hamilton
PREHISTORY Chris Gosden
Intelligence Ian J. Deary
PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY
ISLAM Malise Ruthven
Catherine Osborne
JUDAISM Norman Solomon
Psychology Gillian Butler and
Jung Anthony Stevens
Freda McManus
KANT Roger Scruton
QUANTUM THEORY
KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner
John Polkinghorne
THE KORAN Michael Cook
ROMAN BRITAIN
LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews
Peter Salway
LITERARY THEORY
ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler
Jonathan Culler
RUSSELL A. C. Grayling
LOCKE John Dunn
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
LOGIC Graham Priest
Catriona Kelly
MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
MARX Peter Singer
S. A. Smith
MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers
SCHIZOPHRENIA
MEDIEVAL BRITAIN
Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone
John Gillingham and
SCHOPENHAUER
Ralph A. Griffiths
Christopher Janaway
MODERN IRELAND Senia Pasta
SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer
MOLECULES Philip Ball
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
MUSIC Nicholas Cook
ANTHROPOLOGY
Myth Robert A. Segal
John Monaghan and Peter Just
NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner
SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce
NINETEENTH-CENTURY
Socrates C. C. W. Taylor
BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and
SPINOZA Roger Scruton
H. C. G. Matthew
STUART BRITAIN John Morrill
NORTHERN IRELAND
TERRORISM Charles Townshend
Marc Mulholland
THEOLOGY David F. Ford
PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close
THE TUDORS John Guy
paul E. P. Sanders
TWENTIETH-CENTURY
Philosophy Edward Craig
BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Wittgenstein A. C. Grayling
Samir Okasha
WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman
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AFRICAN HISTORY
HIROSHIMA B. R. Tomlinson
John Parker and Richard Rathbone
HUMAN EVOLUTION
THE BRAIN Michael OShea
Bernard Wood
BUDDHIST ETHICS
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Damien Keown
Paul Wilkinson
CHAOS Leonard Smith
JAZZ Brian Morton
CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead
MANDELA Tom Lodge
CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy
MEDICAL ETHICS
CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
Tony Hope
Robert Tavernor
THE MIND Martin Davies
CLONING Arlene Judith Klotzko
NATIONALISM
CONTEMPORARY ART
Steven Grosby
Julian Stallabrass
PERCEPTION Richard Gregory
THE CRUSADES
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Christopher Tyerman
Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot
Derrida Simon Glendinning
PHOTOGRAPHY
DESIGN John Heskett
Steve Edwards
Dinosaurs David Norman
THE RAJ Denis Judd
DREAMING J. Allan Hobson
THE RENAISSANCE
ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta
Jerry Brotton
THE END OF THE WORLD
RENAISSANCE ART
Bill McGuire
Geraldine Johnson
EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn
SARTRE Christina Howells
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
Michael Howard
Helen Graham
FUNDAMENTALISM
TRAGEDY Adrian Poole
Malise Ruthven
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Habermas Gordon Finlayson
Martin Conway
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Ian Shaw
Ancient Egypt
A Very Short Introduction
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