الوصف: The Archaeology Hotspots series offers reader-friendly and engaging narratives of the archaeology in particular countries. Written by archaeological experts with a general reader in mind, each book in the series focuses on what has been found and by whom, what the controversies and scandals have been, ongoing projects, and how it all fits into a broader view of the history of the country. In Archaeology Hotspot Egypt, scholar Julian Heath provides a chronological overview beginning with handaxes left by Homo erectus during the Lower Paleolithic and moving onwards through pharaonic Egypt to finish in the Greco-Roman period. He covers the most interesting finds—including Tutankhamen's tomb and the Rosetta Stone—and profiles major personalities, past and present. Current digs and recent insights on the past are also covered, such as the massive tomb of KV5 and how contemporary scientific techniques are unearthing new information about ancient Egyptian people and animals. The result is an illuminating look at the history, culture, national heritage, and current archaeological news of Egypt—a hotspot of archaeology.

المؤلفون: Julian Heath

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt, Archaeology--Egypt--History

تصنيفات: TRAVEL / Middle East / Egypt, HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure

الوصف: Extrait :'Le ciel est gris, des traînées de brume mélancolique flottent sur les berges, une tache jaunâtre marque par intervalles la place où le soleil devrait briller ; est-ce bien l'Égypte, et qu'a-t-elle fait de sa lumière, depuis treize ans que je l'ai quittée? On grelotte sur le Nil, et le pont du bateau serait bientôt inhabitable, si l'on ne se résignait à endosser un paletot d'hiver.'

المؤلفون: Gaston Maspero, Ligaran

نوع المادة: eBook.

تصنيفات: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, HISTORY / Civilization, TRAVEL / General, TRAVEL / Middle East / Egypt

الوصف: Extrait :'L'ombre de la montagne s'incline sur Philœ. Le kiosque et le temple, la colonnade et les terrasses, émergés des eaux, entrent dans la nuit. Les berges et le fleuve tendent à se confondre, comme aussi la barrière des montagnes et les noires profondeurs où voyagent les étoiles. Mais, bientôt, la lune, montant dans le ciel, se met à cribler le Nil d'une pluie d'écailles brillantes...'À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique mais également des livres rares en partenariat avec la BNF. Beaucoup de soins sont apportés à ces versions ebook pour éviter les fautes que l'on trouve trop souvent dans des versions numériques de ces textes. LIGARAN propose des grands classiques dans les domaines suivants : • Livres rares• Livres libertins• Livres d'Histoire• Poésies• Première guerre mondiale• Jeunesse• Policier

المؤلفون: Jacques Valdour

نوع المادة: eBook.

تصنيفات: TRAVEL / General, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Middle East / General, TRAVEL / Middle East / Egypt, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / French

الوصف: Dodo Collections brings you another classic from George Ade ‘In Pastures New.'‘In Pastures New'is a humorous account of travels, chiefly in London and Egypt. Many of the letters appearing in this volume were printed in a syndicate of newspapers in the early months of 1906. With these letters have been incorporated extracts from letters written to the Chicago Record in 1895 and 1898. George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright. Ade's literary reputation rests upon his achievements as a great humorist of American character during an important era in American history: the first large wave of migration from the countryside to burgeoning cities like Chicago, where, in fact, Ade produced his best fiction. He was a practicing realist during the Age of (William Dean) Howells and a local colorist of Chicago and the Midwest. His work constitutes a vast comedy of Midwestern manners and, indeed, a comedy of late 19th-century American manners. In 1915, Sir Walter Raleigh, Oxford professor and man of letters, while on a lecture tour in America, called George Ade'the greatest living American writer. Ade's fiction dealt consistently with the'little man,'the common, undistinguished, average American, usually a farmer or lower middle class citizen. (He sometimes skewered women, too, especially women with laughable social pretensions.) Ade followed in the footsteps of his idol Mark Twain by making expert use of the American language. A striking and unique feature of Ade's essays was the creative and liberal use of capitalization. George Ade is one of the American writers whose publications made him rich.

المؤلفون: George Ade

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: American wit and humor, Travel--Anecdotes

تصنيفات: TRAVEL / Middle East / Egypt, TRAVEL / General

الوصف: Extrait :'Me voilà à Marseille, et je crois toucher à l'Égypte. Marseille est maintenant à sept journées d'Alexandrie. Les noms des bateaux à vapeur qui rapprochent le Delta du Rhône et le Delta du Nil, ces noms sont eux-mêmes égyptiens : c'est le Sésostris, le Rhamsès, le Luxor. Je partirai demain sur l'Alexandre. Que cette gloire protège mon obscurité! que le nom du conquérant soit d'un bon augure à mes petites conquêtes!...'À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique mais également des livres rares en partenariat avec la BNF. Beaucoup de soins sont apportés à ces versions ebook pour éviter les fautes que l'on trouve trop souvent dans des versions numériques de ces textes. LIGARAN propose des grands classiques dans les domaines suivants : • Livres rares• Livres libertins• Livres d'Histoire• Poésies• Première guerre mondiale• Jeunesse• Policier

المؤلفون: Jean-Jacques Ampère, Ligaran

نوع المادة: eBook.

تصنيفات: TRAVEL / General, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Middle East / General, TRAVEL / Middle East / Egypt, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / French

الوصف: King Solomon, the Bible's wisest king, possessed extraordinary wealth. The grand temple he built in Jerusalem was covered in gold from the porch to the inner sanctum, where the Ark of the Covenant was kept. Long before H. Rider Haggard's classic adventure novel King Solomon's Mines unleashed gold fever more than a century ago, many had sought to find the source of the great king's wealth. In this new adventure—“a hybrid of Indiana Jones and Herodotus” (Sunday Times, London)—Tahir Shah tries his hand at the quest. Intrigued by a map he finds in a shop not far from the site of the temple, Shah assembles a multitude of clues to the location of Solomon's mines. Some come from ancient texts, including the Septuagint, the earliest form of the Bible, and some from geological, geographical, and folkloric sources. All point across the Red Sea to Ethiopia, the land of the Queen of Sheba, Solomon's lover, who bore Solomon's son Menelik and founded Ethiopia's imperial line. Shah's trail takes him on a wild ride—by taxi, bus, camel, donkey, and Jeep—that is sure to delight all travelers.

المؤلفون: Tahir Shah

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Gold mines and mining--Ethiopia--History

تصنيفات: TRAVEL / Middle East / Israel, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Jewish, RELIGION / Biblical Biography / Old Testament, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, TRAVEL / Middle East / Egypt

الوصف: يقول المؤلف: أخى العزيز ، يسرنى أن أضع بين يديك هذه الدراسة عن رحلتى إلى جنوب سيناء ، هذا الجزء العزيز من أرض الوطن والذى ظل على مدى التاريخ مطمعاً للغزاة ومسرحاً للعمليات العسكرية التى تخرج من مصر ، والتى تأتى إلى مصر ، فسيناء هى الدرع الواقى لمصر من الناحية الشمالية الشرقية وتعد إمتداداً للبحرين الأحمر والأبيض.

المؤلفون: محمد عبد العظيم إبراهيم

نوع المادة: eBook.

تصنيفات: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, TRAVEL / Middle East / Egypt

الوصف: Ahora con índice de localidades! El Arte Mameluco: Esplendor y magia de los sultanes cuenta la historia de casi tres siglos de estabilidad política y económica, obtenida gracias a la exitosa defensa del territorio por los sultanes, ante las amenazas de mongoles y cruzados. El florecimiento intelectual, científico y artístico se manifiesta en la arquitectura y las artes decorativas mamelucas, de una elegante y vigorosa simplicidad casi moderna, que atestiguan la vitalidad de su comercio, su energía cultural, y su fuerza militar y religiosa. Ocho recorridos le invitan a descubrir 51 museos, monumentos y yacimientos en El Cairo, Alejandría y el Delta del Nilo.Ocho recorridos le invitan a descubrir 51 museos, monumentos y yacimientos en El Cairo, Alejandría y el Delta del Nilo.

المؤلفون: El-Behnasi Salah, Selim Enaam, El-Attar Abdulla Abdel Amir, Gaballa Ali Gaballa, El-Din Mohamed Hossam, Abd El-Aziz Mohamed, Ghoneim Atef Abdel Hamid, El-Manabbawi Medhat, Ateya Ali, Torky Ali, El-Rab Gamal Gad

نوع المادة: eBook.

تصنيفات: ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, TRAVEL / Middle East / Egypt

الوصف: The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists to Rome, academics to Göttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century travelers, this book then turns to the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities, among them graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, traveling to the lands of the Bible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known as teenagers. Naval officers off ships of the Mediterranean squadron visited Cairo to see the pyramids. Two groups went on business, one importing steam-powered rice and cotton mills from New York, the other exporting giraffes from the Kalahari Desert for wild animal shows in New York. Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously neglected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, this book offers a new look at the early American experience in Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean world. More than thirty illustrations complement the stories told by the travelers themselves.

المؤلفون: Andrew Oliver

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Tourists--Egypt--History--19th century, Tourists--Egypt--History--18th century, Americans--Egypt--History--19th century, Americans--Egypt--History--18th century

تصنيفات: TRAVEL / Middle East / Egypt, HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues

الوصف: Siwa is a remote oasis deep in the heart of the Egyptian desert near the border with Libya. Until an asphalt road was built to the Mediterranean coast in the 1980s, its only links to the outside world were by arduous camel tracks. As a result of this isolation, Siwa developed a unique culture manifested in its crafts of basketry, pottery, and embroidery and in its styles of costume and silverwork. The most visible and celebrated example of this was the silver jewelery that was worn by women in abundance at weddings and other ceremonies. Based on conversations with women and men in the oasis and with reference to old texts, this book describes the jewelery and costume at this highpoint of Siwan culture against the backdrop of its date gardens and springs, social life, and dramatic history. It places the women's jewelery, costume, and embroidery into social perspective, and describes how they were used in ceremonies and everyday life and how they were related to their beliefs and attitudes to the world. The book also describes how, in the second half of the twentieth century, the arrival of the road and of television brought drastic change, and the oasis was exposed to the styles and fashions of the outside world and how the traditional silver ornaments were gradually replaced by gold.

المؤلفون: Margaret M. Vale

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Jewelry--Egypt--Si¯wah Oasis, Costume--Egypt--Si¯wah Oasis

تصنيفات: TRAVEL / Middle East / Egypt, CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Folkcrafts, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social