The picture of Pharaonic crops and agricultural practice has been, for the most part, a limited and over-simplified portrayal. Several factors, including an over-confidence in the artistic and textual records, as well as certain taphonomic considerations of the generally well-pr…
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Over fifty kings ruled in a period between 150 and 170 years during Dynasty XIII in ancient Egypt; some rulers held the throne for only a few years. This study reviews the chronological sequence of these kings and their means of legitimization and succession. It also examines th…
Human stature is simply defined as the height of a human body in an upright position. The ultimate stature can be obtained from the total addition of vertical length of several bones from the skeleton. Some of these bones are long bones, like femur and tibia; most of the bones t…
Among the vast number of texts to have survived from ancient Egypt, the corpus of literary tales forms one of the most well-known and extensively studied groups. Thus far, however, analyses of the tales have focused on individual texts and language phases without examining the r…
This dissertation discusses the corpus of Pyramid Texts copies recorded on the walls of the burial chambers of the Saite shaft-tombs in the Memphite and Heliopolitan cemeteries. Selections of Pyramid Texts spells were revived as part of the widespread process of Archaism in the …
In 1854, a radical interpretation of ancient Egypt was unveiled at the Sydenham Crystal Palace. Designed by Owen Jones (1809-74) and Joseph Bonomi (1796-1878), the Egyptian Court at Sydenham was a bold synthesis of Egyptian architecture, sculpture, and sacred writing in brick, p…