Bailleul-LeSuer Rozenn (Еd.). Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2012. — 232 p. — (Oriental Institute Museum Publications 35).Issued in conjunction with an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago, this is the first comprehensive study of birds in ancient Egyptian society, economy, art, and religion. Essays address the role of birds in the religious landscape, their use in hieroglyphic and Coptic scripts, birds as protective symbols, as decorative motifs, and as food. A group of essays on “Egyptian Birds and Modern Science” presents the newest forensic research on bird mummies. Other articles address bird behavior as shown in Egyptian art and the present state of avifauna in the Nile Valley. The catalog describes forty artifacts, many of which are previously unpublished. An index of bird species makes this volume useful for naturalists as well as for Egyptologists and art historians.From Kitchen to Temple: The Practical Role of Birds. Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer
The Role of Birds within the Religious Landscape of Ancient Egypt. Foy Scalf
An Eternal Aviary: Bird Mummies from Ancient Egypt. Salima Ikram
Sheltering Wings: Birds as Symbols of Protection in Ancient Egypt. Randy Shonkwiler
Pharaoh Was a Good Egg, but Whose Egg Was He? Arielle Kozloff
Birds in the Ancient Egyptian and Coptic Alphabets. Francois Gaudard
Birds and Bird Imagery in the Book of Thoth. Richard Jasnow
Birds in Late Antique Egypt. Susan H. Auth
Bird Identification from Art, Artifacts, and Hieroglyphs: An Ornithologist’s Viewpoint. John Wyatt
Bird Behavior in Ancient Egyptian Art. Linda Evans
Studying Avian Mummies at the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, University of Manchester: Past, Present, and Future Work. Lidija M. McKnight
Medical CT Scanning of Ancient Bird Mummies. Bin Jiang, MD, and Michael Vannier, MD
Challenges in CT Scanning of Avian Mummies. Charles A. Pelizzari, Chad R. Haney, Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, J. P. Brown, and Christian Wietholt
Terahertz Pulse Imaging of an Egyptian Bird Mummy. J. Bianca Jackson, Gérard Mourou, Julien Labaune, and Michel Menu
The Avifauna of the Egyptian Nile Valley: Changing Times. Sherif Baha el Din