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An overview of the life and death of King Tutankhamum, including analysis of monuments and artefacts and recent scholarly developments. A truer story is revealed, not by objects from his tomb, but by statuary, reliefs, paintings and architecture from outside the Valley of the Ki…
The present research was based on a biocultural analysis of the funerary customs and human remains from the late Old Kingdom (5th-6th Dynasties; 2494-2181 BC) and Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BC) cemeteries at Saqqara-West, Egypt. The study was built on a detailed analysis of archae…
Using Ostraca in the Ancient World: New Discoveries and Methodologies
by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Adam, Bülow-Jacobsen, Ben, Haring, Bérangère, Redon, Clementina, Caputo, Jennifer, Cromwell, Julia, Lougovaya, Maren, Schentuleit, Margaretha, Folmer, Marie-Pierre, Chaufray, Paola, Davoli, Sandra, Lippert
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Throughout Egypt's long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be discovered. This volume high…
When considered in the context of other sources of information, the analysis of human remains can provide important insights into the population of ancient Egypt. Sex is an important component both of the biological profile of an individual, and the demographic profile of a popu…
Universal Self is an archetype in which there is reciprocal correspondence between individual and universe. A pragmatic research design grounded in the hermeneutic tradition of inquiry is used to explore Universal Self from the perspective of Ancient Egypt by synthesizing histor…
Ancient Egyptian culture has been a powerful influence on a major tradition of English literature that runs from Edmund Spenser‘s The Faerie Queene (1596), one of whose major iconographic centers is the temple of Isis, to John Crowley‘s four-volume novel Ægypt (2007). My dissert…
The Medjay were an elusive people whom Ancient Egyptian texts seem to refer to as either an ethnic or an occupational group. In the early part of their history, they appear to have been a subgroup of Nubians associated with a land called Medja. In the later part, the word Medjay…
Egypt’s Late Period (728-341 BC) was a time of frequent political transition where dynasts, many of them foreign, usurped the throne and established new dynasties through a number of different methods. This was a stark contrast to earlier periods in pharaonic Egypt where dynasti…
Nabta Playa is an internally drained basin located in the most arid part of the Sahara Desert. The northward shift of the summer monsoons that took place 12ka, however, enabled the region to be habitable for more than six thousand years. The area received enough rain annually to…
New Kingdom pharaohs were quick to display their dominance over foreign captives in a variety of contexts—reliefs on temple walls, statuary, various artifacts, texts, etc.—using brutal and degrading imagery. Indeed, depictions of foreign captives in humiliating or torturous pose…
The ancient Egyptians believed that the material world as well as the imaginal inner world was infused with spirit and spirits. They believed in a wholly integrated reality, which included the physical forms of nature as well as the unseen images, gods, goddesses, powers, symbol…