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Language: en
Pages: 433
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
This landmark, interdisciplinary publication of the Red Monastery church, the most important Christian monument in Egypt's Nile Valley, highlights its remarkabl
Language: en
Pages: 370
Pages: 370
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
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Language: en
Pages: 276
Pages: 276
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"The history of their name is a reminder that this part of the world was at the center of an unusually extensive intermixing of populations and regions. The ter
Language: en
Pages: 348
Pages: 348
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
The book reproduces the cleaned paintings for the first time. It also describes and analyzes their amalgam of Coptic (Egyptian Christian), Byzantine, and Arab s