Publications
Book Review: An ABC Escapade through Egypt
Elegant Egrets and Floating Felukat Mountains of Mangoes and Oodles of Olives Zooming Zalamokkat in Zamalek… These are a few of Egypt’s favorite things as described by Bernadette Simpson in her delightful book “An ABC Escapade through Egypt”. Using alliterative writing and the English alphabet, the author has composed a series of one-page chapters that cover everything about... »
Three Empires On the Nile
Between the completion of the Suez Canal in 1869 and the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, the British Empire expanded up the Nile River, impelled by varied motives: money, vengeance, humanitarianism, and imperial diplomacy. In Three Empires on the Nile, Green’s panoramic narrative re-creates these three decades with remarkable dynamism, applying a flair for... »
The Pharaohs
“The Pharaohs” is an illustrated history of the kings who ruled over this extraordinary land, narrating the story of 30 dynasties starting around 3100 BC when the first pharaoh, Menes, unified Upper and Lower Egypt, and ending with the conquest of Egypt in 332 BC by Alexander the Great. It profiles powerful, and sometimes... »
The Ethical Travel Guide: Your Passport to Exciting Alternative Holidays
Do you want a vacation that bypasses too familiar haunts and gives you a greater depth of experience? Do you want a vacation that is enriching for you – and for the locals at your destination? If you do, and believe that your trip should give local communities a fair deal (so often denied them)... »
Ancient Egypt and Us
Professor Adrian Kerr, a resident of Southwest Florida, has spent more than 30 years regularly visiting Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Iraq and Israel to study the ancient civilizations of the Middle East. His recently published book, “Ancient Egypt and Us,” outlines the impact of ancient Egypt on the modern world. Modern religion, art, architecture, cosmetics, medicine,... »
Obelisk: A History
by Brian A. Curran (Author), Anthony Grafton (Author), Pamela O. Long (Author), Benjamin Weiss (Author) This beautifully illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries—what they meant to the Egyptians, and how other cultures have borrowed, interpreted, understood, and misunderstood them through the years. Nearly every empire worthy of the... »
Book Review: The Smiting Texts
Author: Roy Lester Pond Published by Austin Macauley 372pp A controversial Egyptologist is hired to avert a clash between two world superpowers thousands of years apart Mr. Anson Hunter is an Egyptologist not so comfortable with the term. A phenomenologist who specializes in what the author calls fringe Egyptology, Hunter interprets arcane Egyptian belief in a way that... »
In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun's Tomb
Egypt was like the Wild West in the early days of the twentieth century. Millionaire patrons with little knowledge or experience funded enormous digs by eccentric and often unscrupulous archaeologists. Howard Carter, an artist with little education and no sophistication, traveled to Egypt as a seventeen-year-old with an uncertain future. His patron, Lord Carnarvon,... »
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
By Andrew Robinson This richly illustrated book highlights the thrills of archeological sleuthing and recounts the many attempts at understanding ancient civilizations through the decipherment of their long-lost writing. Major breakthroughs, such as the Rosetta Stone and its key to Egyptian hieroglyphs, and continuing enigmas such as the undeciphered scripts of the Etruscans and Easter... »
UA Libraries and Professor Richard H. Wilkinson publish new E-Journal
UA Regents’ Professor Richard H. Wilkinson, who has led excavations and other research in Egypt, came up with the idea to launch a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on scholarly work centered on ancient Egypt art, history, religion, technology and culture and the country’s relationship with its neighbors. The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, an electronic... »
