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The Six Stars of the Orient - A Cultural and Historical Itinerary in South-Eastern Turkey
This book consists in a very unusual Itinerary linking History, History of Religions, description of monuments and archeological places with personal tourist experience, as well as with transcendental contacts the author seems to have had while traveling in, studying and exploring the area of today’s South-Eastern Turkey in the middle and late 80s.
The Periplus of the Red Sea (O Periplous tes Erythras Thalasses) - A Book review
The Ancient Greek text of an anonymous, but certainly Alexandrian Egyptian, author dates back to the times of the Roman Emperor Nero and the Rekem/Petra king Malichus (mentioned in the text). The text of the Periplus of the Red Sea is by definition the central text in the study of the East - West Trade, an interdisciplinary field where more than two dozens of historical branches have been contributing to the scholarly research.
The Periplus of Hanno, King of the Carthaginians, and explorations of West Africa before 2450 years
This book consists in a historical presentation of the brief Carthaginian text that has not been saved in its original, but in an Ancient Greek translation. Carthaginian explorations of the West coast of Africa before 2450 years.
The Book of the Travels (Sefer haMasaoth), Benjamin of Tudela in search of the Ten Lost Tribes
The Book of the Travels (Sefer haMasaoth) of Benjamin of Tudela testifies to the persistent search of the illustrious Medieval Spanish Jewish traveler for the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Throughout his fascinating travel from Spain to Persia, and return through the Red Sea and Egypt, Benjamin of Tudela bears evidence to the contemporaneous Jewish communities and to the his search for Messianic beliefs.
The Adventures of Wenamun, Egyptian priest of Amun of Thebes, in Phoenicia
Wenamun, the Egyptian priest of Amun of Thebes, traveled around 1075 BCE through Sais to Byblus of Phoenicia to get the precious cedar wood that was needed to have a holy boat of Amun sculpted in Thebes. He left a fascinating report that is the subject of this book.
Pylons of African Kushitic Spirituality: Jaarsoo Waaqoo and Geerarsa Oromo Literature
In two earlier articles we republished parts of the book “Theorizing the Present” in which the great Oromo Intellectual Asafa Dibaba analyzes sociologically the poetry of Jaarsoo Waaqoo, the leading National Oromo Poet and Mystic. To give every unspecialized, Afro-phile reader, the keys to Understanding the African Kushitic Spirituality, we re-publish in this article the third chapter of Mr. Asafa Dibaba’s pioneering contribution.
Masr qabl al Islam (Egypt before Islam) - The Greatness of Ancient Egypt in its real dimensions
This private edition in Arabic language (219 p.), distributed since 1998 in many libraries and institutes in Cairo (Egypt), consists actually in the Arabic translation of selected works of Prof. Dr. M. S. Megalommatis. In the Preface the author characterizes the choice of the translated works as "very representative selection of (his) publications about Pre-Christian Egypt", stating that the entire translation work was completed under his own inspection and guidance.
Hatshepsut and her Expedition to Pount, the coast of Somalia
A book review of the famous French Egyptologist, Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt's contribution 'La Reine Mysterieuse (the Mysterious Queen) Hatshepsout' (Pygmalion, Paris, 2002, 504p.) with focus on teh Egyptian Queen's 'Expedition to Punt', the coast of Somalia

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