A chronological overview of the funerary monuments of Egypt, beginning with the last pyramids and ending with the tombs of the Ptolemaic Periods in the Nile Delta. The architecture and decoration of the tombs, along with their contents, are discussed in detail, including the results of more recent excavation in the Valley of the Kings. The discussion is accompanied by numerous photographs of the tombs, their artwork and plans of the funerary complexes which show the development of both architectural styles and religious beliefs.
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Aidan Dodson was born in 1962 in London and brought up in Slough, Berkshire. He studied Egyptology at Durham, Liverpool and Cambridge Universities, obtaining his BA in 1985, his MPhil in 1986 and his PhD in 1995; he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003. He has taught in the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology at Bristol University, where he is now a Senior Research Fellw, since 1996 and has given public lectures in the UK, the USA, Canada, Egypt, Denmark, Italy and Spain. He met his wife while teaching her Egyptology at an adult education class; they live in Bristol.
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Fantastic book! I've already raided Jstor for all JEA articles Dodson has written. Easy read, thorough, and engaging. Will read just about anything by the author. My one issue (and it is minor) are the tomb diagrams. Would be great if he could have used the Theban Mapping Project's floor plans for the tombs (Kent Weeks, by the way, is the only other author that I would read anything they publish). The more I read of Mr. Dodson's work, the more I wish he'd have more appearances in tv docus (and it'd be perfect if he were to replace Hawass' fat butt in them).
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The latter part of the eighteenth century BC saw Egypt apparently at the height of her powers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
canopic chest, burial hall, quartzite sarcophagus, shabti figures, funerary equipment, mortuary temple, outer coffin, first corridor, granite sarcophagus, royal necropolis, burial chamber, foundation deposits, canopic jars, royal tombs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eighteenth Dynasty, New Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, British Museum, Seventeenth Dynasty, Howard Carter, Nineteenth Dynasty, Book of the Dead, Dira Abu'l-Naga, West Valley, Antenophis Ill, Eleventh Dynasty, Nicholas Reeves, Royal Wadi New!
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canopic chest, burial hall, quartzite sarcophagus, shabti figures, funerary equipment, mortuary temple, outer coffin, first corridor, granite sarcophagus, royal necropolis, burial chamber, foundation deposits, canopic jars, royal tombs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eighteenth Dynasty, New Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, British Museum, Seventeenth Dynasty, Howard Carter, Nineteenth Dynasty, Book of the Dead, Dira Abu'l-Naga, West Valley, Antenophis Ill, Eleventh Dynasty, Nicholas Reeves, Royal Wadi New!
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