Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt , by Stephen Quirke, 2015. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell; ISBN 978-1-4443-3200-1 paperback £23.99; 271 pp., 13 tables, 91 b/w figs
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DOI: 10.1017/s0959774317000452
Abstract: The proposition of addressing ancient Egyptian religion in one volume can only be described as a daunting one. Ancient Egypt as we currently define it encompasses a vast timeframe of more than 3000 years of… read more here.
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Introduction: Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Culture
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DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2018.1484606
Abstract: Reception studies of the ancient world in the modern western imagination have transformed the examination of both ancient Greece and ancient Rome over the past few decades. The reception of ancient... read more here.
Keywords: ancient egypt; nineteenth century; introduction ancient; ancient ... See more keywords
Embracing the Sphinx: Ancient Egypt in Belgravia: A London Magazine
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DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2018.1484609
Abstract: Fascination with ancient Egypt and Egyptiana permeated British culture in the nineteenth century. A trip to Egypt was well within the means of upper-class Victorians, who could see for themselves the wonders of the pyramids.… read more here.
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Rediscovery of the type series of the Sacred Shrew, Sorex religiosus I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1826, with additional notes on mummified shrews of ancient Egypt (Mammalia: Soricidae).
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DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.1.1
Abstract: In 1826, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire described the Sacred Shrew, Sorex religiosus [= Crocidura religiosa] from a series of 22 embalmed individuals that comprised a portion of the Italian archeologist Joseph Passalacqua's collection of Egyptian antiquities… read more here.
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Rethinking the Process of Animal Mummification in Ancient Egypt: Molecular Characterization of Embalming Material and the Use of Brassicaceae Seed Oil in the Mummification of Gazelle Mummies from Kom Mereh, Egypt
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DOI: 10.3390/molecules27051532
Abstract: The study of animal mummification in ancient Egypt has recently received increasing attention from a number of modern scholars given the fact that this part of ancient Egyptian funerary and religious history is a practice… read more here.
Keywords: ancient egypt; mummification; gazelle mummies; animal mummification ... See more keywords