Author: Jonathan Cott
Publisher: Aspect
ISBN: 9780446390408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The story of one woman's search for the previous life she led in ancient Egypt, written by a Rolling Stone and New Yorker journalist.
The Search for Omm Sety
Author: Jonathan Cott
Publisher: Aspect
ISBN: 9780446390408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The story of one woman's search for the previous life she led in ancient Egypt, written by a Rolling Stone and New Yorker journalist.
Publisher: Aspect
ISBN: 9780446390408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The story of one woman's search for the previous life she led in ancient Egypt, written by a Rolling Stone and New Yorker journalist.
The Search for Omm Sety
Author: Jonathan Cott
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385237468
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385237468
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Omm Sety's Egypt
Author: Hanny El Zeini
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Revelations in Egyptology, based on the diaries of Dorothy Eady, better known as Omm Sety. Omm Sety, a brilliant, adventuring Englishwoman, worked under some of the greatest Egyptologists of the 20th century and "saw" into the past. Hers is a story of ancient love - of gods, pyramids, pharaohs and queens, and treasures that wait beneath the sand. In Omm Sety's Egypt, the authors present never-before-seen episodes from her truly incredible life, including important revelations about Egypt's lost history. Hanny el Zeini was her close friend during the many years she lived in the ancient holy city of Abydos. It was a friendship filled with star-lit evenings among the ruins of ancient temples, speaking of the mysteries of this land they both loved. Dr. el Zeini was her trusted confidant to whom she revealed her secret other life in 19th Dynasty Egypt. Shortly before her death in 1981, she gave him her diaries, which chronicled her life in two worlds. Drawing on Omm Sety's diaries and on hundreds of hours of recorded conversations and Dr. el Zeini's own writings, co-author Catherine Dees brings this extraordinary material together into a story that asks the reader to suspend disbelief and enter into the mystery that was Omm Sety.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Revelations in Egyptology, based on the diaries of Dorothy Eady, better known as Omm Sety. Omm Sety, a brilliant, adventuring Englishwoman, worked under some of the greatest Egyptologists of the 20th century and "saw" into the past. Hers is a story of ancient love - of gods, pyramids, pharaohs and queens, and treasures that wait beneath the sand. In Omm Sety's Egypt, the authors present never-before-seen episodes from her truly incredible life, including important revelations about Egypt's lost history. Hanny el Zeini was her close friend during the many years she lived in the ancient holy city of Abydos. It was a friendship filled with star-lit evenings among the ruins of ancient temples, speaking of the mysteries of this land they both loved. Dr. el Zeini was her trusted confidant to whom she revealed her secret other life in 19th Dynasty Egypt. Shortly before her death in 1981, she gave him her diaries, which chronicled her life in two worlds. Drawing on Omm Sety's diaries and on hundreds of hours of recorded conversations and Dr. el Zeini's own writings, co-author Catherine Dees brings this extraordinary material together into a story that asks the reader to suspend disbelief and enter into the mystery that was Omm Sety.
Omm Sety's Living Egypt
Author: Omm Sety
Publisher: Glyphdoctors
ISBN: 0979202302
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A special connection with ancient Egypt drew Omm Sety to Egypt, where she studied with the great Egyptologists Selim Hassan and Ahmed Fakhry. For more than four decades she made her home in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza and in the mudbrick village surrounding the Temple of Sety I at Abydos. For her, there was no separation between ancient and modern Egypt. Pictures on tomb walls illustrated the games children played in the streets in front of her house. The texts she translated from the temple walls shed light on the origins of the social customs of her Egyptian neighbors. For another four decades this book, which deserves to be called Omm Sety's life work, remained hidden away. Now Nicole B. Hansen, an Egyptologist who specializes in connections between ancient and modern Egypt, brings this work to light in an annotated edition with extensive notes and bibliography, illustrated with Omm Sety's own drawings. It features a foreword by Kent R. Weeks, who rediscovered KV5 in the Valley of the Kings, and an introduction by Walter A. Fairservis, the late director of the Hierakonpolis Project. For Egyptologists, this book includes explanations of texts from the Pyramid Texts to Herodotus as well as ancient Egyptian art. For anthropologists, it represents the results of a lifetime of unbridled participant-observation, during which Omm Sety used folk treatments to cure her ills and agreed to serve as a medium for a spirit during a magic ritual. For those interested in Omm Sety herself, this book provides new insights into her life, the people she knew and the places she lived.
Publisher: Glyphdoctors
ISBN: 0979202302
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A special connection with ancient Egypt drew Omm Sety to Egypt, where she studied with the great Egyptologists Selim Hassan and Ahmed Fakhry. For more than four decades she made her home in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza and in the mudbrick village surrounding the Temple of Sety I at Abydos. For her, there was no separation between ancient and modern Egypt. Pictures on tomb walls illustrated the games children played in the streets in front of her house. The texts she translated from the temple walls shed light on the origins of the social customs of her Egyptian neighbors. For another four decades this book, which deserves to be called Omm Sety's life work, remained hidden away. Now Nicole B. Hansen, an Egyptologist who specializes in connections between ancient and modern Egypt, brings this work to light in an annotated edition with extensive notes and bibliography, illustrated with Omm Sety's own drawings. It features a foreword by Kent R. Weeks, who rediscovered KV5 in the Valley of the Kings, and an introduction by Walter A. Fairservis, the late director of the Hierakonpolis Project. For Egyptologists, this book includes explanations of texts from the Pyramid Texts to Herodotus as well as ancient Egyptian art. For anthropologists, it represents the results of a lifetime of unbridled participant-observation, during which Omm Sety used folk treatments to cure her ills and agreed to serve as a medium for a spirit during a magic ritual. For those interested in Omm Sety herself, this book provides new insights into her life, the people she knew and the places she lived.
Omm Sety's Abydos
Author: Dorothy Louise Eady
Publisher: [Mississauga, Ont.] : Benben Publications
ISBN: 9780920808092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A personal history and guide to the ritual site of Abydos, on the West bank of the Nile, which flourished from the Predynastic period until Christian times (c. 4000 BC to AD 641). The author moved to Egypt in 1933 and was involved in excavations with a number of Egyptian archaeologists.
Publisher: [Mississauga, Ont.] : Benben Publications
ISBN: 9780920808092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A personal history and guide to the ritual site of Abydos, on the West bank of the Nile, which flourished from the Predynastic period until Christian times (c. 4000 BC to AD 641). The author moved to Egypt in 1933 and was involved in excavations with a number of Egyptian archaeologists.
Abydos
Author: Omm Sety
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Gritty, Stinky Ancient Egypt
Author: James A. Corrick
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429654066
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
"Describes disgusting details about daily life in ancient Egypt, including housing, food, and sanitation"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429654066
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
"Describes disgusting details about daily life in ancient Egypt, including housing, food, and sanitation"--Provided by publisher.
Letters from Egypt, 1863-65
Author: Lady Lucie Duff Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Isis and Osiris
Author: Jonathan Cott
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385417976
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Interviews worshipers, philosophers, historians, and psychologists worldwide to understand the tenacity and influence of the Ur myth of death and regeneration
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385417976
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Interviews worshipers, philosophers, historians, and psychologists worldwide to understand the tenacity and influence of the Ur myth of death and regeneration
Khufu's Wisdom
Author: Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307426513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
At the center of Khufu’s Wisdom, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s majestic first novel, is the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch Khufu (Cheops), for whom the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. When a seer prophesies the end of Khufu’s dynasty and the ascension to the throne of Djedefra, son of the High Priest of Ra, the pharaoh must battle to preserve his legacy against the will of the Fates. But in the face of the inexorable attraction between Djedefra and Princess Meresankh, Khufu’s beautiful daughter, Khufu must consider not only his personal ambition and the opposing decree of the heavens, but also how the wisdom he prides himself on as a ruler will guide him in determining the fate of his daughter’s heart. Translated by Raymond Stock
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307426513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
At the center of Khufu’s Wisdom, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s majestic first novel, is the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch Khufu (Cheops), for whom the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. When a seer prophesies the end of Khufu’s dynasty and the ascension to the throne of Djedefra, son of the High Priest of Ra, the pharaoh must battle to preserve his legacy against the will of the Fates. But in the face of the inexorable attraction between Djedefra and Princess Meresankh, Khufu’s beautiful daughter, Khufu must consider not only his personal ambition and the opposing decree of the heavens, but also how the wisdom he prides himself on as a ruler will guide him in determining the fate of his daughter’s heart. Translated by Raymond Stock