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…
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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…
In ancient Egypt, sexuality, fertility, and the conception of children was of central importance not just to personal identity, but also to family and social structure. Because of the significance of birth in both the physical world and in the spiritual realm, references to repr…
The topic of the dissertation is a study on the Ramesseum Dramatic Papyrus, a document that was discovered together with other papyri and funerary objects in a late Middle Kingdom tomb in Ramses II's funerary temple on the West bank of Luxor. The thesis will cover an analysis of…
This dissertation is concerned with the site of Kom el-Nana, an Amarna period structure excavated by Barry Kemp in the Southern Suburb of the ancient city of Tell el-Amarna. Professor Kemp's excavations in the 1980s and 1990s unearthed a quantity of stone fragments that preserve…
New Kingdom occurs in ancient Egypt and is loosely based upon historical figures and events involving the rulers Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III circa 1480-1479 B.C. Prince Tuthmosis returns to Thebes and threatens the regency of Queen Hatshepsut, who is unwilling to let her stepso…
Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African-American intellectuals have made claims about the past in their literary works and this analysis primarily makes use of the literary works of Frances Harper and W. E. B. Du Bois and offers an archaeological theoretical applica…
This study is a methodical investigation of the ancient Egyptian priesthood appearing in the Memphite elite tombs of the Old Kingdom. The iconographic specifics of figures having singular priestly titles, or any hierarchical and gender variations of the same titles, were collect…
This study investigated persuasive strategies used in ancient Egypt and ancient China. In an effort to attain a better understanding of the utilization of persuasive tools from these two ancient societies, this study was completed by examining Ptahhotep's Maxims from Egypt and L…
Chapter 1: Using a novel combination of administrative and proprietary data from 2007 to 2011 on King County, WA (metro Seattle), I estimate the effect of owner-occupants' home equity on their probability of sale and, indirectly, mobility. I exploit plausibly exogenous variation…
The site of South Abydos was home to royal mortuary complexes of both the late Middle, and New Kingdoms, belonging to Senwosret III and Ahmose. Thanks to both recent and past excavations, both of these royal establishments are fairly well understood. Yet, we lack a clear picture…
A corpus of 217 wooden statues dating from the Egyptian Old Kingdom is examined and discussed in detail. 127 statues have been dated to individual reigns within the Old Kingdom and are placed in chronological order (Catalogue A). They form the basis of a chronological feature li…