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Mysterious Lands (Encounters with Ancient Egypt) by David B O'Connor; Stephen Quirke; University College, London Institute of Archaeology is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mysterious Lands (Encounters with Ancient Egypt) about?
The discipline of Egyptology has been criticised for being too insular,with little awareness of the development of archaeologies elsewhere. It has remained theoretically underdeveloped. For example the role of Ancient Egypt within Africa has rarely been considered jointly by Egyptologists and Africanists. Egypt's own view of itself has been neglected; views of it in the ancient past, in more recent times and today have remained underexposed. Encounters with Ancient Egypt is a series of eight books which addresses these issues. The books interrelate, inform and illuminate one another and will appeal to a wide market including academics, students and the general public interested in Archaeology, Egyptology, Anthropology, Architecture, Design and History. Mysterious Lands covers two kinds of encounters. First, encounters which actually occurred between Egypt and specific foreign lands, and second, those the Egyptians created by inventing imaginary lands. Some of the actual foreign lands are mysterious, in that we know of them only through Egyptian sources, both written and pictorial, and the actual locations of such lands remain unknown. These encounters led to reciprocal influenc
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David B O'Connor; Stephen Quirke; University College, London Institute of Archaeology
- Publisher
- UCL Press, Institute of Archaeology; Cavendish Pub.
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781844720040
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Travel, History, Language Learning
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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