Publication: Andrey Bolshakov Man and His Double in Egyptian Ideology of the Old Kingdom

In 2001, Prof. Andrey Bolshakov, head of the Section of the Ancient Orient in the State Hermitage, published a book.
Ancient Egyptian monuments have preserved unique information about the world view of people who had only just emerged from primitivism but were already living in conditions of developed statehood. Sadly, despite the fact that Egyptologists have been making attempts to reconstruct it for a century and a half, we still do not understand the most important concepts, including the complex of ideas associated with the human being's Double - the Ka that occupied a central place in the ideology of the Old Kingdom (3rd millennium B.C.). This book represents a very major study of the Ka question based on material from tomb murals and sculptures that have not hitherto been seriously examined in this context.

The book is published in Russian and English.

Андрей Олегович Большаков. Человек и его Двойник. Изобразительность и мировоззрение в Египте Старого царства. Санкт-Петербург, 2001. 288 стр., 9 рис. ISBN 5-89329-357-6.

Andrey O. Bolshakov, Man and His Double in Egyptian Ideology of the Old Kingdom, Wiesbaden, 1997 (Ägypten und Altes Testament, Vol. 37), 336 pp., 5 tbls, 9 figs.
ISBN 3-447-03892-6.

Андрей Олегович Большаков. Человек и его Двойник. Изобразительность и мировоззрение в Египте Старого царства
Санкт-Петербург, 2001

Andrey O. Bolshakov, Man and His Double in Egyptian Ideology of the Old
Kingdom, Wiesbaden, 1997