UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology
Publisher: eScholarship 2011
ISBN-13: 9780615214030
Description:
Egyptology has as its object of study the history, practices, and conceptual categories of a culture that was remarkably prolific in terms of written texts, art, architecture, and other forms of material culture. The peer-reviewed articles of the UEE are written by the world's leading scholars.
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