HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

In this study, 12 selected carved lapis lazuli amulets from various periods of ancient Egyptian history, from the New Kingdom to the Graeco-Roman Period, were analysed non-invasively to determine the provenance of their raw material. The amulets are part of the Museo Egizio of Turin (Italy) collection and include five samples retrieved at the ancient site of Heliopolis (Egypt). To ascertain the lapis lazuli provenan…

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Book · DOAB

Presenting dynamic research, this publication explores two millennia of cultural interactions between Egypt, Greece, and Rome. From Mycenaean weaponry found among the cargo of a Bronze Age shipwreck off the Turkish coast to the Egyptian-inspired domestic interiors of a luxury villa built in Greece during the Roman Empire, Egypt and the Classical World documents two millennia of cultural and artistic interconnected…

Full text · Open Library

From the awesome grandeur of the great pyramids to the delicacy of a face etched on an amulet, the power of the art of ancient Egypt persists to this day. This beautifully illustrated book conducts us through the splendors of this world, great and small, and into the mysteries of its fascination in its day as well as in our own. What did art, and the architecture that housed it, mean to the ancient Egyptians? Why di…