The Saqqara Necropolis through the New Kingdom: Biography of an Ancient Egyptian Cultural Landscape

• Autor: Staring, Nico
• Assuntos: 1QDAE Ancient Egypt ; Ancient history: to c 500 CE ; Ancient Lived Religion ; Ancient World ; Archaeology ; Archaeology by period / region ; Architecture ; BCE to c 500 CE ; Book Industry Communication ; Burial customs ; Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology ; Elite Culture ; Empires & historical states ; Geographical Qualifiers ; History ; History: earliest times to present day ; Humanities ; Museum Studies ; Other geographical groupings, oceans & seas ; Processions ; Prosopography ; Ritual ; Second Millennium BC ; Time periods qualifiers ; Tombs
• Descrição: This book is the first comprehensive monographic treatment of the New Kingdom (1539–1078 BCE) necropolis at Saqqara, the burial ground of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, and addresses questions fundamental to understanding the site’s development through time. For example, why were certain areas of the necropolis selected for burial in certain time periods; what were the tombs’ spatial relations to contemporaneous and older monuments; and what effect did earlier structures have on the positioning of tombs and structuring of the necropolis in later times? This study adopts landscape biography as a conceptual tool to study the long-time interaction between people and landscapes.
  
• Editor: Brill
  
• Data de criação/publicação: 2022
  
• Idioma: Inglês