Название: Ancient Egyptian Boats
Автор(ы): Dilwyn Jones
Издательство: University of Texas Press
Серия: Egyptian Bookshelf
Год: 1995
ISBN-13: 978-0292740396
Страниц: 96
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 54 MB

Drawing on archaeological and literary evidence, Dilwyn Jones examines the importance of the boat in Egyptian ritual and belief as well as in everyday life. The sun god was thought to travel across the sky in a solar boat, and Egyptians believed that the deserving might join the god Osiris in his divine bark after death. Boats played an important part in funerary ritual; models were often placed in tombs to provide the deceased with safe passage through the "winding waterway" in the underworld. Also, boats are frequently depicted in tomb-painting. The Nile River has always been a vital transport artery for Egypt, and boats the principal means of travel. Early papyrus skiffs gradually gave way to wooden craft of increasing size and sophistication, ranging from fishing boats and barges to seagoing warships, splendid ships of state, and enormous obelisk barges used to transport stone to temples and monuments. Dilwyn Jones traces the development of the different types of boat and the techniques of their construction through the Old, Middle, and New Kingdom periods

Название: История Российской империи. В трех томах. Т. 2.
Автор: Геллер М.Я.
Издательство: М.: Издательство "МИК"
Год: 1997
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 320
Размер: 18 mb
Язык: русский

Это исследование охватывает огромный временной период — с первого летописного упоминания о славянских племенах до Октябрьской революции. Автор рассматривает, историю России под оригинальным углом зрения, прослеживая процесс многократного образования и распада Российской империи.

Название: Священное опьянение: Языческие таинства Хмеля
Автор: Гаврилов Д.А., Ермаков С.Э.
Издательство: М.: Яуза, Эксмо
Год: 2012
Cтраниц: 364
Формат: fb2, rtf
Размер: 14 мб
Язык: русский

«Руси веселье пити. Не можем без того быти!» – если верить легендам, именно этот довод предопределил выбор князя Владимира в пользу христианства, которое в отличие от ислама не запрещало употребление хмельных напитков. Однако стоит ли сводить поворотный момент русской судьбы к историческому анекдоту? Ведь в славянской традиции священное опьянение не имело ничего общего с бытовым пьянством – это был сакральный ритуал, священнодействие, допустимое лишь в праздники и на поминках, но жестко ограниченное в обыденной жизни. Будучи даром богов – сродни небесному огню, живой и мертвой воде русских сказок, – «царь яр-буен Хмель» возвышал человека вровень с Бессмертными, приобщал к высшим истинам, открывал врата в иной мир, дабы узреть сокровенное и запретное.

Название: Кавказская Русь: Где кровь Русская пролилась, там и Земля Русская
Автор: Прозоров Лев
Издательство: М.: Эксмо
Год: 2012
Cтраниц: 320
Формат: fb2, rtf
Размер: 11 мб
Язык: русский

Кавказский вопрос всегда был одним из главных козырей в пропагандистском арсенале врагов России – вот уже два столетия Запад обвиняет нашу страну в «колониализме», «имперской экспансии» и «завоевании Кавказа». Известный историк, автор бестселлеров «Исконные боги Руси», «Святослав Великий» и «Евпатий Коловрат», не оставляет от этих обвинений камня на камне, неопровержимо доказывая, что есть все основания считать наших славянских предков одним из коренных народов Северного Кавказа, а сам Кавказ – исстари русской землей.

Название: Jack The Ripper
Автор(ы): Collective
Издательство: Imagine Publishing Ltd
Серия: All About History
Год: 2015
ISBN-10: 1910439738
Страниц: 180
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 108 MB

Иллюстрированная история Джека Потрошителя.
For ten weeks during the autumn of 1888, London’s East End was gripped by the terror of history’s most notorious serial killer. Despite public outcry, the culprit was never caught, and the mystery of Jack the Ripper continues to fascinate amateur sleuths and crime enthusiasts well over a century later. In this book, you will  nd a comprehensive collection of the evidence and facts that exist, as well as police reports and the many theories about who the Ripper really was. You’ll also see detailed reconstructions of the crime scenes as they would have looked when Jack the Ripper walked them, searching for victims. Everything you need to make your own mind up is here, from who the killer was and why he chose his victims, to why the police never found him. Prepare yourself for a grim look at the streets of London in their darkest days.

Название: Encyclopedia of Archaeology Volume 1-3
Под ред. Deborah M. Pearsall
Издательство: Academic Press
Год: 2007
ISBN: 012548030XE
Страниц: 2209
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 143 МВ

The Encyclopedia of Archaeology changes this, in making all aspects of archaeology accessible to a broad audience of the general scientific community, educators, students, and avocational archaeologists. Professional archaeologists and anthropologists will also find the encyclopedia a ready source of up-to-date information on specialities outside their own expertise.

Название: Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights From the Harvard University Museum of Fine Arts
Автор(ы): Rita Freed, Joyce Haynes, Yvonne Markowitz
Издательство: Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Publications
Год: 2002
ISBN-13: 978-0878466306
Страниц: 142
Язык: English
Формат: PDF HQ
Размер: 101 MB

The age of the pyramids, or Old Kingdom period, was Egypt's crowning moment, known to many as its Golden Age. It was a time when kings and queens commanded stone to be turned into architectural marvels, the human figure to be immortalized, and exquisite furnishings and jewelry to be fashioned for this life and the one beyond the tomb. One of the world's premier collections of Old Kingdom art belongs to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, but never before have highlights from the collection been presented together in a single, lavishly-illustrated volume. Nor have many of the fascinating archival photographs of the excavations that unearthed these objects been published as they are here. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids provides a glimpse of life--and death--at the pinnacle of Egyptian civilization, as well as the excitement of the first excavators who discovered its treasures.

Название: Egypt in Italy: Visions of Egypt in Roman Imperial Culture
Автор(ы): Molly Swetnam-Burland
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2015
ISBN-13: 9781107040489
Страниц: 272
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 25 MB

This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of Aegyptus as a province. In the early imperial period, Roman interest in Egyptian culture was widespread, as evidenced by works ranging from the monumental obelisks, brought to the capital over the Mediterranean Sea by the emperors, to locally made emulations of Egyptian artifacts found in private homes and in temples to Egyptian gods. Although the foreign appearance of these artworks was central to their appeal, this book situates them within their social, political, and artistic contexts in Roman Italy. Swetnam-Burland focuses on what these works meant to their owners and their viewers in their new settings, by exploring evidence for the artists who produced them and by examining their relationship to the contemporary literature that informed Roman perceptions of Egyptian history, customs, and myths.

Название: Designing for Luxury on the Bay of Naples: Villas and Landscapes (c. 100 BCE - 79 CE)
Автор(ы): Mantha Zarmakoupi
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Серия: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation
Год: 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0199678389
Страниц: 327
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 55 MB

Дизайн роскоши Неаполитанского залива: Виллы и ландшафты (100 год до н.э. - 79 год н.э.).
This study explores Roman luxury villa architecture and the Roman luxury villa lifestyle to shed light on the villas' design as a dynamic process related to cultural, social, and environmental factors. Roman villas expressed a novel architectural language which was developed by designers appropriating the existing stylistic and thematic vocabularies of Hellenistic and Roman architecture. Zarmakoupi seeks to describe and explain the ways in which this architecture accommodated the lifestyle of educated leisure and an appreciation of the Roman landscape, and how, in doing so, it became a cultural phenomenon and a crucial element in the construction of Roman cultural identity. In their effort to accommodate the Greek style, Romans created something completely unprecedented in the history of architecture. Through an analysis of five villas from around the bay of Naples (c. 100 BCE - 79 CE), the volume shows that in designing for luxury, Romans developed a sophisticated interplay between architecture and landscape, an interplay which is still seen in architectural design today.

Название: Иван III - государь всея Руси Кн. 1
Автор: Язвицкий В.
Издательство: А/О "Международная книга"
Год: 1994
ISBN: 5-85125-024-0
Страниц: 736
Формат: pdf и djvu
Качество: хорошее
Размер файла: 44.43 MB
Язык: русский

Исторический роман В. Язвицкого воссоздает эпоху правления Ивана III (1440-1505 гг.), при котором сложилось территориальное ядро единого Российского государства. Это произошло в результате внутренней политики воссоединения древнерусских княжеских городов Ярославля, Новгорода, Твери, Вятки и др. Одновременно с укреплением Руси изнутри возрастал ее международный авторитет на Западе и Востоке.