Product Description: This volume is a study of ceramic change in a stratified settlement at Kom Rabia, Memphis, during the New Kingdom. Ceramic chronology of this period has traditionally relied on pottery associated with dated individuals, usually from burials...read more

Understanding Catastrophe examines the immense and varied impact that catastrophic change can have on the development of life on earth. Opening with a remarkable account of supernovae and the nature of stellar catastrophe, it then examines the way evolution itself can proceed through genetic jumps of catastrophic proportions. The primal forces of the earth, manifested in such natural catastrophes as earthquakes and cyclones, and the devastating impact these can have even today on human populations across the world receive extended scrutiny as does the power of famine historically in determining the future of humankind. To conclude, a fascinating final chapter on changing medical and social attitudes to epidemic diseases such as tuberculosis offers - in the age of AIDS particularly - some unsettling insights into our fundamental incapacity when confronted by major threats to life and health.

Product Description: At the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, pottery is extremely plentiful and generally found in a good state of preservation. The pottery presented here is all the New Kingdom pottery from the tomb, found between 1975-83.

Product Description: This volume is the first of a series on the ceramics from the Egypt Exploration Society's excavations in the Anubieion at Saqqara. The desert edge overlooking the Nile Valley was intensively used for two and a half millennia before its selection as the site of the mainly Ptolemaic temple...read more

Product Description: In September 2002, a second workshop on the theme of the social context of technological change was held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. Discussion has been the core of these meetings so far, with the aim being to relate the results of the specialist investigator to broad historical questions concerning the nature and development of ancient societies...read more

Product Description: (Egypt Exploration Society, Occasional Publications 14, 2000)

Product Description: Although we experience colour all the time, do we really understand colour? Three hundred years ago Isaac Newton showed that white light is composed of all the colours of the spectrum yet does this provide us with insight into our own personal experience of colour sensation? To answer such questions on the nature of colour this volume gathers the combined knowledge of physics, biology, history and art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This lavishly illustrated book brings together a selection of ancient Egyptian works of art of outstanding quality and interest, ranging from large sculptures to small decorative objects. The introduction and full descriptions explain their significance, style, material, and mode of manufacture within the framework of the life and religious beliefs of the royal and private owners for whom they were made...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written as a catalogue for an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in June 1988 this book is also an introduction to the sculpture, painting, jewellery, ceramics, calligraphy, literature and metalwork from the Middle Kingdom period of Ancient Egypt 2023-1650BC...read more

Product Description: Written as a catalogue for an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in June 1988 this book is also an introduction to the sculpture, painting, jewellery, ceramics, calligraphy, literature and metalwork from the Middle Kingdom period of Ancient Egypt 2023-1650BC...read more