Luxor Illustrated, Revised and Updated - Michael Haag

Luxor Illustrated, Revised and Updated

With Aswan, Abu Simbel, and the Nile

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Buch | Softcover
96 Seiten
2009
The American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
978-977-416-312-8 (ISBN)
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A celebration of the monuments and landscape of Upper Egypt. It also covers the major sites of Upper Egypt, including Abydos, Dendera, Esna, Edfu, and Kom Ombo. It highlights the remarkable temples at Abu Simbel, with their colossal figures of Ramesses II and his lovely wife Nefertari cut from the living rock.
Luxor stands on the site of ancient Thebes, Egypt’s opulent New Kingdom capital. It encompasses the spectacular temples of Luxor and Karnak on the east bank of the Nile, and on the west bank the vast necropolis, which includes the Colossi of Memnon, the famed Ramesseum, Queen Hatshepsut’s magnificent funerary temple, and the Valley of the Kings, riddled with royal tombs, among them the fabled resting place of Tutankhamun. The splendor and profusion of pharaonic monuments at Luxor justifies its reputation as the greatest outdoor museum in the world.
Reaching beyond Luxor, this book also covers all the major sites of Upper Egypt, including Abydos, Dendera, Esna, Edfu, and Kom Ombo. Special attention is given to Aswan, one of the most beautiful places in Egypt, with its nearby island temple of Isis at Philae. The climax of this informed and richly illustrated book comes with the remarkable temples at Abu Simbel, with their colossal figures of Ramesses II and his lovely wife Nefertari cut from the living rock.

Michael Haag (Author, Photographs by) Michael Haag (1943–2020) was a London-based writer and photographer. He is author and photographer of Alexandria Illustrated (AUC Press, 2004) and Cairo Illustrated (AUC Press, 2006), and author of Vintage Alexandria: Photographs of the City, 1860–1960 (AUC Press, 2008) and Alexandria: City of Memory (2004). His other books include The Templars and The Durrells of Corfu. Aidan Dodson (Introduction by) Aidan Dodson is honorary full professor of Egyptology in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol, UK. He was also Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo in 2013, and Chair of the Egypt Exploration Society during 2011–16. Awarded his PhD by the University of Cambridge in 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003. He is the author of some twenty-five books.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.2.2010
Einführung Aidan Dodson
Illustrationen Michael Haag
Zusatzinfo 200 color photographs, 4 maps
Verlagsort Cairo
Sprache englisch
Maße 203 x 279 mm
Gewicht 490 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Fotokunst
Reisen Bildbände Afrika
ISBN-10 977-416-312-5 / 9774163125
ISBN-13 978-977-416-312-8 / 9789774163128
Zustand Neuware
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