This dissertation provides, for the first time, an in-depth, context-sensitive study of the Fifth Dynasty (c. 2494-2345 BCE) funerary complex (or mastaba) of the ancient Egyptian official Akhmerutnisut, originally located in the Western Cemetery at Giza (G 2184). Through an inte…
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This dissertation investigates the demonstratives in Old Egyptian. It shows that the proper description of the Old Kingdom deictic system delivers key insights into the emergence of the new proclitic forms "pȝ", "tȜ", "nȜ", which later grammaticalize to definite articles.
This dissertation provides the first systematic overview and analysis of the ritual scenes decorating the interior walls of the forecourt of Ramesses II at Luxor Temple, completed in the third year of Ramesses’s reign (c. 1279-1213 B.C.E.), and their relationship to this monumen…
The collecting of “erotic” artifacts in 19th century Egyptology reveals the ways in which museums constructed knowledge around sex and grappled with sexual content in relation to the perceived value of artifacts. By looking at two types of artifacts, those with an overt sexual n…
Napoleon’s disastrous campaign in Egypt was a military and political failure; however, it opened up Egypt to European attention and competition. The campaign's aftermath yielded two significant developments, the Capitulation of Alexandria and the publication of the Description d…
The goddesses in the Hypostyle Hall in Karnak reflect specific patterns of iconographic meaning that are illuminated via the use of statistics.
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…
This dissertation presents data concerning the muscle scars on the arm bores of Ancient Egyptians from the non-elite Late Predynastic cemetery of HK43 at the site of Hierakonpolis, Egypt as a proxy for physical stress. The data from the individuals at Hierakonpolis are then comp…
This dissertation applies Afrocentric methods of decipherment to a sacred symbol selected from the ancient Egyptian language of Mdw Ntr (Words of God). The chosen symbol is transliterated by Egyptologists as neb and translated ideographically as lord, master. My purpose is to de…
This dissertation is a study of Horus the Behdetite based on material dating prior to the construction of the god's famous temple at Edfu during the Ptolemaic Period. Although much of the earlier temple of the god has been destroyed, there is still a wealth of material pertainin…
The subject of this dissertation is the Description de l'Égypte , a learned work of research about Egypt, conducted by a group of young engineers and scientists that were attached to the French army that invaded Egypt in 1798. The dissertation describes the processes of the stat…
There is no doubt that mummification was an incredibly important element of the ancient Egyptian mortuary sphere and a key element in preserving the body after death. The purpose of mummification in ancient Egypt is often described as preserving the body in order to remain life-…
Because of the lack of provenance or accompanying text, the depictions of anthropomorphized animals on ancient Egyptian New Kingdom ostraca and papyri have long puzzled Egyptologists. Attempts to understand the ostraca usually focus on the role reversals where predatory animals …
This thesis researches a neglected period in the history of Egyptology. The impetus was my own training in Egyptology in which no mention was ever made of any medieval Arab contribution. My upbringing as an Egyptian had made me aware of some of the sources which could fill the g…