Gifts from the pharaohs : how Egyptian civilization shaped the modern world

1. Verfasser: Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane, 1913-2011
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Paris : Flammarion, 2007.
Umfang/Format: 287 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
Schlagworte:
Civilization, Western > Egyptian influences.
Egypt > Antiquities.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • The calendar
  • The lion and the locusts
  • The frog : from protohistory to the Christian church
  • Fish, taboos, and resurrection
  • The game of goose and the Greeks
  • Saint George and Saint Christopher
  • From turquoise mines to the alphabet
  • Egyptian medicine
  • Architecture and its heritage
  • Words that traveled
  • The legacy of Egypt in Israel, or Joseph and Egypt
  • Wisdom
  • Theogamy, the myth of the mother goddess, and the sacred bark
  • The secret of the sanctuaries
  • Chronology.

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