Webcast: Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces

Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces 

• by Český egyptologický ústav FF UK v Praze
• 10 videos
• Last updated on Nov 19, 2014

The Czech Institute of Egyptology has organized an international conference Profane landscapes, sacred spaces, which took place on 26th and 27th June 2014 at Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. The aim of the meeting was a discussion of the issues connected to environment development and climate change research in Egyptology, and to the ways ancient Egyptians reflected their environment and created sacred spaces within the natural landscape.

Programme: http://egyptologie.ff.cuni.cz/pdf/Landscape%20conference%...

Abstracts:
http://egyptologie.ff.cuni.cz/pdf/Landscape,%20Prague%202...

• Miroslav Bárta: Latest discoveries at Abusir South (Egypt) 
• Miroslav Bárta: Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces: a view from Abusir 
• Linda Evans: Ancient Egyptian and Egyptological attitudes towards the natural world 
• Hana Navrátilová: Visitors’ graffiti - traces of a re-appropriation of sacred spaces?  
• Andrea Loprieno-Gnirs: Challenged by nature: structural damages in Theban tombs 
• Andrés Diego Espinel: Some profane and sacred features from Thebes   
• Ángeles Jimenéz Higueras: The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga 
• Jiří Janák: Birds, Oars and Jars – Ritual Landscape of Images and Script   
• Jiří Janák: Birds, Oars and Jars – Ritual Landscape of Images and Script 
• Claire Ollett: Hatshepsut's Temple at Deir el Bahari: Agenda and Legitimisation