LEADER 03274nam 2200445 450 001 9910794985003321 005 20230809234121.0 010 $a178023774X 010 $a9781780237749 010 $a9781780237268 010 $a178023726X 035 $a(CKB)4340000000194737 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4947584 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000194737 100 $a20170916h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aEgypt $elost civilizations /$fChristina Riggs 210 1$aLondon, England :$cReaktion Books,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (216 pages) $ccolor illustrations 225 1 $aLost Civilizations 311 $a1-78023-726-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLooking for ancient Egypt -- Forty centuries -- Sacred signs -- Taken in the flood -- Walking like an Egyptian -- Vipers, vixens and the vengeful dead -- Out of Africa -- Counting the years -- Still looking. 330 $a"Examining the history, art, and religion of ancient Egypt, an illuminating look at why it has been so influential throughout the centuries. From Roman villas to Hollywood films, ancient Egypt has been a source of fascination and inspiration in many other cultures. But why, exactly, has this been the case? In this book, Christina Riggs examines the history, art, and religion of ancient Egypt to illuminate why it has been so influential throughout the centuries. In doing so, she shows how the ancient past has always been used to serve contemporary purposes. Often characterized as a lost civilization that was discovered by adventurers and archeologists, Egypt has meant many things to many different people. Ancient Greek and Roman writers admired ancient Egyptian philosophy, and this admiration would influence ideas about Egypt in Renaissance Europe as well as the Arabic-speaking world. By the eighteenth century, secret societies like the Freemasons looked to ancient Egypt as a source of wisdom, but as modern Egypt became the focus of Western military strategy and economic exploitation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, its ancient remains came to be seen as exotic, primitive, or even dangerous, tangled in the politics of racial science and archaeology. The curse of the pharaohs or the seductiveness of Cleopatra were myths that took on new meanings in the colonial era, while ancient Egypt also inspired modernist, anti-colonial movements in the arts, such as in the Harlem Renaissance and Egyptian Pharaonism. Today, ancient Egypt?whether through actual relics or through cultural homage?can be found from museum galleries to tattoo parlors. Riggs helps us understand why this ?lost civilization? continues to be a touchpoint for defining?and debating?who we are today." -- Publisher's description. 410 0$aLost civilizations (Reaktion Books (Firm)) 607 $aEgypt$xCivilization$y332 B.C.-638 A.D 676 $a932.022 700 $aRiggs$b Christina$0623658 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794985003321 996 $aEgypt$93755919 997 $aUNINA