Book Cover

Journey Through the Beyond: The Development of the Concept of Duat and Related Cosmological Notions in Egyptian Funerary Literature

Contributor(s): Zago, Silvia (Author)

ISBN: 9781948488532

Publisher: Lockwood Press

Hardcover
$89.95
- +
Buy

Pub Date: April 1, 2022

Dewey: 299.31388

LCCN: 2021059752

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.42" H x 11.26" L x 8.74" W ( 3.60 lbs) 496 pages

BISAC Categories:

History | Ancient | Egypt

Series: Material and Visual Culture of Ancient Egypt

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: A Journey through the Beyond offers the first comprehensive overview of the evolution over time of a foundational concept of the Egyptian afterlife beliefs: the Duat, or netherworld.

Brief description: Silvia Zago is a lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool and a member of the Royal Historical Society. She specializes in Egyptian religion and afterlife texts, and has authored several studies that encompass the evolution of notions of the otherworld over time, magic and ritual practices, as well as the conceptualization and use of sacred landscape in ancient Egypt.

Worth Considering
Product successfully added to cart!