The corpus of Napatan inscriptions studied here comprises the monumental royal texts written in Egyptian hieroglyphs which date from the end of Nubian domination of Egypt in the mid-seventh century B.C. to the reign of Nestasen in the second half of the fourth century B.C. The N…
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The portfolio of fifteen-hundred drawings made by the wealthy and brilliant William John Bankes (1786-1855) and his artists, travelling and working in Egypt and Nubia between 1815 and 1822, constitutes an important early scholarly record. Of particular interest are sites and mon…
Ancient Egypt's relationship with its neighbor to the south provides an excellent opportunity to examine imperialism in antiquity using a broader theoretical framework. The central problem addresses the reasons why Egyptian imperialism in Nubia changed from a system of equilibri…
The aim of this thesis was to document the development of the Christian Nubian house and its variations in form between different geographic and political regions, within the kingdoms of Nobatia, Makuria and Alwa. Chronologies describing the evolution of Nubian church architectu…
This thesis presents an expanded bioarchaeological perspective to quantitative analyses of dental caries in the remains of 1842 ancient Egyptians and Nubians. The skeletal samples came from 17 Egyptian and 15 Nubian cemeteries, are represented by both sexes, and spanned a period…
Ancient Nubia, located in Sudan from the First to Sixth Cataracts of the Nile River, was at the heart of contact between indigenous African societies and the Egyptian Empire (Edwards 2007). This dissertation focuses on a small farming community on the fringes of the medieval Nub…
By employing a bioarchaeological perspective, this dissertation addresses how quotidian acts are altered during and as a consequence of sociopolitical change. Specifically, variation in day-to-day activities associated with the transition from the New Kingdom to the Napatan Peri…
One of the major problems of Nubian history is assessing the impact of Egyptian rule in Kush during the New Kingdom (c 1550-1070 BC) on the emergence of a powerful 'Egyptianised' indigenous state in the 9th-8th C BC. In order to address this issue, the nature of Egyptian rule in…
In this dissertation I examine the faunal remains of the Middle Kingdom Egyptian fortress of Askut, a stronghold on the Egyptian-Nubian border at the height of political tensions between ancient Egypt and Kush (1850 to 1550 BC). The aims of this investigations are: 1) to examine…
This dissertation examines the population structure of the el-Hesa skeletal collection, recovered from a First Cataract island in the Nile River in modern day Egypt. The collection dates to the Egyptian late Roman to early Christian periods (AD 395-640). The primary goal of this…
Stable isotope analysis of hair was used to investigate the dietary patterns of individuals from the Christian period Sudanese Nubian site of Kulubnarti, taking into consideration established patterns of health. Over three decades of research has shown consistent differences bet…
Culture contact between past populations has traditionally been investigated by using a paradigm of unidirectional change forced on a subordinate group by a dominant power. However, recent studies have suggested that such power relations are often more dynamic and bi-directional…
Human body size and limb proportions can provide important information about adaptation, population movements, and health disparities. This study investigated changes in body size and limb proportions of adult Egyptians temporally and geographically in relation to climatological…
In spite of numerous studies, the mechanisms for the rifting, uplifting, and volcanism on the African plate remain enigmatic. The most popular hypotheses proposed for explaining these tectonic phenomena involve edge-driven small-scale mantle convection and the thermal or dynamic…
The present doctoral dissertation proposes a comparative investigation of Egyptian and Kushite temples. The study corpus consists of one architectural type—the free-standing temple—that was dedicated to one deity. Amun, who played the most important role in both Egyptian and Kus…