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Cats of Egypt
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Artikel-Nr:
9789774166754
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.2015
Seiten:
8
Autor:
Dominique Navarro
Gewicht:
47 g
Format:
216x63x10 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dominique Navarro is an Emmy Award winning art director, natural history artist, and writer. She is the author and illustrator of the AUC Press Nature Foldouts series as well as Egypt's Wildlife: Past and Present and Ancient Egypt: An Artist's Coloring Book (both AUC Press, 2016). As a trained forensic artist, she produces illustrations and sculptural reconstructions of unidentified persons and ancient archaeological remains. She currently works in Egypt as an epigraphic artist. dominiquenavarro.comRichard Hoath is one of Egypt's leading naturalists. He is the author of A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt (AUC Press, 2004) and Natural Selections, A Year of Egypt's Wildlife (AUC Press, 1993), and is on the faculty of the American University in Cairo.
Cats were just as favored in ancient Egypt as they are today. Egyptian paintings of domesticated cats date back 3,600 years, and animal cults included worship to the cat goddess Bastet. This AUC Press Nature Foldout explores wild and domestic cats of Egypt.- Each species described and illustrated, alongside examples of their natural prey in the wild- Map of Egypt describing the various habitats of wild cats, as well as locations of ancient Egyptian sites where the cat was worshiped and mummified- Noted appearances of felines in hieroglyphs and reliefs- Conservation efforts for threatened cat species
Cats included:Great SphinxCaracalLeopardCheetahSwamp CatAfrican Wild CatSand CatBastet (goddess)Egyptian Mau (domestic cat)African Lionand feature panels on:Domestic OriginsLion Gods and Cat CultsCat SensesSleep