TY  - BOOK
AU  - Willems,Harco
AU  - Dahms,Jan-Michael
TI  - The Nile: Natural and Cultural Landscape in Egypt 
SN  - 9783839436158
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Although Herodot's dictum that "Egypt is a gift of the Nile" is proverbial, there has been only scant attention to the way the river impacted on ancient Egyptian society. Egyptologists frequently focus on the textual and iconographic record, whereas archaeologists and earth scientists approach the issue from the perspective of natural sciences. The contributions in this volume bridge this gap by analyzing the river both as a natural and as a cultural phenomenon. Adopting an approach of cultural ecology, it addresses issues like ancient land use, administration and taxation, irrigation, and religious concepts
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/50aa96fe-a8fe-49bf-bd4b-8abf5c6aaad2
ER  -