audiobook The Reluctant Migrants: Migration from the Veneto to Central Massachusetts 1880-1920 by Teresa Fava Thomas in History

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Of all the enormous monuments throughout Egypt and Nubia that Ramesses II (the Great; ca. 1279-1212 BCE) left behind; his temple at Abydos; built early in his reign; stands as one of his most elegant monuments; with its simple architectural layout and dramatic and graceful painted relief scenes. Though best known for its dramatic reliefs depicting the battle of Kadesh; the temple also offers a wealth of information about religious and social life in ancient Egypt. It reflects; for example; the strenuous efforts of the early Ramessides to reestablish the Osiris cult in Egypt-and particularly at Abydos-in the aftermath of the Amarna period. Over a seven-year period; the authors of The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos conducted a field project with the aim of producing an up-to-date and comprehensive architectural; photographic; and epigraphic record of the temple. This lavish volume; presented in two parts ("Part 1: Exterior Walls and Courts" and "Part 2: Chapels and First Pylon") is the first of two volumes documenting their results. It presents more than two hundred detailed line drawings-accurately rendered according to modern epigraphical standards-of the temple's carved relief scenes; placed alongside their corresponding full-color photographs. The result is a masterpiece of modern epigraphic research and publication. Volume 2; "Pillars; Miscellany; and Inscriptions"; will contain additional elements of the temple; as well as translations of the inscriptions found in the temple.