Author: Michael E. Habicht
Publisher: epubli
ISBN: 3759816878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Complete Royal Mummies of Ancient Egypt: Identifications of Ancient Egyptian Royal Mummies and burials from the Old Kingdom to Modern Age re-assessed. Part 3: E-Book edition (shortened and adapted for E-reader) Bioarchaeological investigations of Ancient Egyptian Mummies: Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of the royal mummies of ancient Egypt. This two-volume work presents the current state of knowledge on the identification of the royal mummies and offers an in-depth look at the complex scientific methodology used to unravel their secrets. Volume one guides you through the historical information, such as ancient restoration inscriptions applied by the priests of the Third Intermediate Period when repairing the mummies, as well as the changing techniques of mummification, which provide important clues to the dating and positioning of individuals within the various royal families. Numerous royal mummies are presented as individual case studies to give you a detailed insight into their identification. In the second volume you will find craniometric data, some rulers of the medieval period whose tombs have survived, as well as the khedives, sultans and kings of the modern period and their wives. In addition, you will find forensic facial reconstructions and other illustrations to help you gain an even more accurate picture of these fascinating personalities. The books are an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in the history of ancient Egypt and the fascinating world of royal mummies. Immerse yourself in the world of the pharaohs and discover the secrets of their mummies! The e-book is intended as a supplement for travelling and is therefore defined as volume 3
The Complete Royal Mummies of Ancient Egypt: Part 3
Author: Michael E. Habicht
Publisher: epubli
ISBN: 3759816878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Complete Royal Mummies of Ancient Egypt: Identifications of Ancient Egyptian Royal Mummies and burials from the Old Kingdom to Modern Age re-assessed. Part 3: E-Book edition (shortened and adapted for E-reader) Bioarchaeological investigations of Ancient Egyptian Mummies: Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of the royal mummies of ancient Egypt. This two-volume work presents the current state of knowledge on the identification of the royal mummies and offers an in-depth look at the complex scientific methodology used to unravel their secrets. Volume one guides you through the historical information, such as ancient restoration inscriptions applied by the priests of the Third Intermediate Period when repairing the mummies, as well as the changing techniques of mummification, which provide important clues to the dating and positioning of individuals within the various royal families. Numerous royal mummies are presented as individual case studies to give you a detailed insight into their identification. In the second volume you will find craniometric data, some rulers of the medieval period whose tombs have survived, as well as the khedives, sultans and kings of the modern period and their wives. In addition, you will find forensic facial reconstructions and other illustrations to help you gain an even more accurate picture of these fascinating personalities. The books are an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in the history of ancient Egypt and the fascinating world of royal mummies. Immerse yourself in the world of the pharaohs and discover the secrets of their mummies! The e-book is intended as a supplement for travelling and is therefore defined as volume 3
Publisher: epubli
ISBN: 3759816878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Complete Royal Mummies of Ancient Egypt: Identifications of Ancient Egyptian Royal Mummies and burials from the Old Kingdom to Modern Age re-assessed. Part 3: E-Book edition (shortened and adapted for E-reader) Bioarchaeological investigations of Ancient Egyptian Mummies: Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of the royal mummies of ancient Egypt. This two-volume work presents the current state of knowledge on the identification of the royal mummies and offers an in-depth look at the complex scientific methodology used to unravel their secrets. Volume one guides you through the historical information, such as ancient restoration inscriptions applied by the priests of the Third Intermediate Period when repairing the mummies, as well as the changing techniques of mummification, which provide important clues to the dating and positioning of individuals within the various royal families. Numerous royal mummies are presented as individual case studies to give you a detailed insight into their identification. In the second volume you will find craniometric data, some rulers of the medieval period whose tombs have survived, as well as the khedives, sultans and kings of the modern period and their wives. In addition, you will find forensic facial reconstructions and other illustrations to help you gain an even more accurate picture of these fascinating personalities. The books are an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in the history of ancient Egypt and the fascinating world of royal mummies. Immerse yourself in the world of the pharaohs and discover the secrets of their mummies! The e-book is intended as a supplement for travelling and is therefore defined as volume 3
The Forensic Facial Reconstruction of Shep-en-Isis
Author: Cicero Moraes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783757539634
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783757539634
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Forensic Art and Illustration
Author: Karen T. Taylor
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1040080227
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
As the number of stranger-on-stranger crimes increases, solving these crimes becomes more challenging. Forensic illustration has become increasingly important as a tool in identifying both perpetrators and victims. Now a leading forensic artist, who has taught this subject at law enforcement academies, schools, and universities internationally, off
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1040080227
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
As the number of stranger-on-stranger crimes increases, solving these crimes becomes more challenging. Forensic illustration has become increasingly important as a tool in identifying both perpetrators and victims. Now a leading forensic artist, who has taught this subject at law enforcement academies, schools, and universities internationally, off
Forensic Facial Reconstruction
Author: Caroline Wilkinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521820035
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Forensic facial reconstruction is the reproduction of an individual's face from skeletal remains. Used when other forms of identification are very difficult or impossible, it can give a name to the dead in forensic cases, or in archaeological contexts, provide a tangible impression of real individuals from our past. This comprehensive work starts with a discussion of the importance of the face in society and the history of facial reconstruction, going on to evaluate the accuracy of modern reconstruction methods. The Manchester method of facial reconstruction, and the relationships between the hard and soft tissues of the face are described in detail. Uniquely, it also describes the methods and problems associated with reconstructing the faces of children. Collating all published facial tissue data and describing tissue variations with reference to age, sex, stature and ethnic origin, this book will be an important reference volume for all practitioners in the field.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521820035
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Forensic facial reconstruction is the reproduction of an individual's face from skeletal remains. Used when other forms of identification are very difficult or impossible, it can give a name to the dead in forensic cases, or in archaeological contexts, provide a tangible impression of real individuals from our past. This comprehensive work starts with a discussion of the importance of the face in society and the history of facial reconstruction, going on to evaluate the accuracy of modern reconstruction methods. The Manchester method of facial reconstruction, and the relationships between the hard and soft tissues of the face are described in detail. Uniquely, it also describes the methods and problems associated with reconstructing the faces of children. Collating all published facial tissue data and describing tissue variations with reference to age, sex, stature and ethnic origin, this book will be an important reference volume for all practitioners in the field.
Health and Medicine in Ancient Egypt
Author: Paula Alexandra da Silva Veiga
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Limited
ISBN: 9781407305004
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This monograph explores the unity of the modern concepts of magic and science in Egyptian medicine.
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Limited
ISBN: 9781407305004
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This monograph explores the unity of the modern concepts of magic and science in Egyptian medicine.
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
Author: Haidy Geismar
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787352838
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object – a box, pen, effigy and cloak – this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography), and theories of how knowledge is produced in museums on a wide range of digital projects. Swooping from Ethnographic to Decorative Arts Collections, from the Google Art Project to bespoke digital experiments, Haidy Geismar explores the object lessons contained in digital form and asks what they can tell us about both the past and the future. Drawing on the author’s extensive experience working with collections across the world, Geismar argues for an understanding of digital media as material, rather than immaterial, and advocates for a more nuanced, ethnographic and historicised view of museum digitisation projects than those usually adopted in the celebratory accounts of new media in museums. By locating the digital as part of a longer history of material engagements, transformations and processes of translation, this book broadens our understanding of the reality effects that digital technologies create, and of how digital media can be mobilised in different parts of the world to very different effects.
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787352838
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object – a box, pen, effigy and cloak – this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography), and theories of how knowledge is produced in museums on a wide range of digital projects. Swooping from Ethnographic to Decorative Arts Collections, from the Google Art Project to bespoke digital experiments, Haidy Geismar explores the object lessons contained in digital form and asks what they can tell us about both the past and the future. Drawing on the author’s extensive experience working with collections across the world, Geismar argues for an understanding of digital media as material, rather than immaterial, and advocates for a more nuanced, ethnographic and historicised view of museum digitisation projects than those usually adopted in the celebratory accounts of new media in museums. By locating the digital as part of a longer history of material engagements, transformations and processes of translation, this book broadens our understanding of the reality effects that digital technologies create, and of how digital media can be mobilised in different parts of the world to very different effects.
We Can't Go Home Again
Author: Clarence E. Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195357302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Afrocentrism has been a controversial but popular movement in schools and universities across America, as well as in black communities. But in We Can't Go Home Again, historian Clarence E. Walker puts Afrocentrism to the acid test, in a thoughtful, passionate, and often blisteringly funny analysis that melts away the pretensions of this "therapeutic mythology." As expounded by Molefi Kete Asante, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, and others, Afrocentrism encourages black Americans to discard their recent history, with its inescapable white presence, and to embrace instead an empowering vision of their African (specifically Egyptian) ancestors as the source of western civilization. Walker marshals a phalanx of serious scholarship to rout these ideas. He shows, for instance, that ancient Egyptian society was not black but a melange of ethnic groups, and questions whether, in any case, the pharaonic regime offers a model for blacks today, asking "if everybody was a King, who built the pyramids?" But for Walker, Afrocentrism is more than simply bad history--it substitutes a feel-good myth of the past for an attempt to grapple with the problems that still confront blacks in a racist society. The modern American black identity is the product of centuries of real history, as Africans and their descendants created new, hybrid cultures--mixing many African ethnic influences with native and European elements. Afrocentrism replaces this complex history with a dubious claim to distant glory. "Afrocentrism offers not an empowering understanding of black Americans' past," Walker concludes, "but a pastiche of 'alien traditions' held together by simplistic fantasies." More to the point, this specious history denies to black Americans the dignity, and power, that springs from an honest understanding of their real history.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195357302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Afrocentrism has been a controversial but popular movement in schools and universities across America, as well as in black communities. But in We Can't Go Home Again, historian Clarence E. Walker puts Afrocentrism to the acid test, in a thoughtful, passionate, and often blisteringly funny analysis that melts away the pretensions of this "therapeutic mythology." As expounded by Molefi Kete Asante, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, and others, Afrocentrism encourages black Americans to discard their recent history, with its inescapable white presence, and to embrace instead an empowering vision of their African (specifically Egyptian) ancestors as the source of western civilization. Walker marshals a phalanx of serious scholarship to rout these ideas. He shows, for instance, that ancient Egyptian society was not black but a melange of ethnic groups, and questions whether, in any case, the pharaonic regime offers a model for blacks today, asking "if everybody was a King, who built the pyramids?" But for Walker, Afrocentrism is more than simply bad history--it substitutes a feel-good myth of the past for an attempt to grapple with the problems that still confront blacks in a racist society. The modern American black identity is the product of centuries of real history, as Africans and their descendants created new, hybrid cultures--mixing many African ethnic influences with native and European elements. Afrocentrism replaces this complex history with a dubious claim to distant glory. "Afrocentrism offers not an empowering understanding of black Americans' past," Walker concludes, "but a pastiche of 'alien traditions' held together by simplistic fantasies." More to the point, this specious history denies to black Americans the dignity, and power, that springs from an honest understanding of their real history.
History of Bristol County, Massachusetts
Author: Duane Hamilton Hurd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristol County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristol County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429967609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
"You're not responsible for your ancestry, are you . . . But if that's so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police, arrested a couple of times; plastered walls with subversive posters . . . The past is valid only in relation to whether the present recognizes it." In this collection of new stories, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black, Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing. In the title story a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his own racial identity in his great-grandfather's fortune-hunting interlude of living rough on diamond diggings in South Africa, his young wife far away in London. "Dreaming of the Dead" conjures up a lunch in a New York Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Said return in surprising new avatars as guests in the dream of a loving friend. The historian in "History" is a parrot who confronts people with the scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love-talk on which it has eavesdropped. "Alternative Endings" considers the way writers make arbitrary choices in how to end stories—and offers three, each relating the same situation, but with a different resolution, arrived at by the three senses: sight, sound, and smell.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429967609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
"You're not responsible for your ancestry, are you . . . But if that's so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police, arrested a couple of times; plastered walls with subversive posters . . . The past is valid only in relation to whether the present recognizes it." In this collection of new stories, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black, Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing. In the title story a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his own racial identity in his great-grandfather's fortune-hunting interlude of living rough on diamond diggings in South Africa, his young wife far away in London. "Dreaming of the Dead" conjures up a lunch in a New York Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Said return in surprising new avatars as guests in the dream of a loving friend. The historian in "History" is a parrot who confronts people with the scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love-talk on which it has eavesdropped. "Alternative Endings" considers the way writers make arbitrary choices in how to end stories—and offers three, each relating the same situation, but with a different resolution, arrived at by the three senses: sight, sound, and smell.
Pharaonic Egyptian Clothing
Author: Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description