263 Pages
by
Routledge
263 Pages
by
Routledge
263 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: Mapping the Unknown in Ancient Egypt, David O'Connor, Stephen Quirke; Chapter 2 The Egyptian Concept of the World, James P. Allen; Chapter 3 Travel and Fiction in Egyptian Literature, Antonio Loprieno; Chapter 4 Locating Punt, Dimitri Meeks; Chapter 5 Interpreting Punt: Geographic, Cultural and Artistic Landscapes, Stephen P. Harvey; Chapter 6 The Emergence of Libya on the Horizon of Egypt, Steven Snape; Chapter 7 The Mystery of the 'Sea Peoples', Eric H. Cline, David O'Connor; Chapter 8 'œAs for Them Who Know Them, They Shall Find Their Paths': Speculations on Ritual Landscapes in the 'Book of the Two Ways', Peter Robinson; Chapter 9 Measuring the Underworld, Stephen Quirke; Chapter 10 The 'Book of the Fayum': Mystery in a Known Landscape, John Tait; Chapter 11 Mysterious Lands - The Wider Context, Robert Layton;
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Edited by O'Connor, David; Quirke, Stephen
