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The treasure of the Egyptian Queen Ahhotep and international relations at the turn of the Middle Bronze Age (1600-1500 BCE)
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ISBN: 9781906137724 1906137722 Year: 2022 Publisher: London: Golden House Publications,

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The personal adornments and further objects from the burial of queen Ahhotep belong to the most spectacular finds from Ancient Egypt. The history of their discovery is still a mystery. Even the identity of the queen is not fully solved. The twelve essays in this volume tackle different problems around the objects from the tomb of the queen.


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Egypt at its origins 6 : proceedings of the Sixth International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Vienna, 10th - 15th September 2017
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ISBN: 9789042940666 9042940662 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leuven : Peeters,

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This volume represents the 6th installment of proceedings of the successful international conference series "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", which this time was held at the University of Vienna in Austria from 10th to 15th of September 2017. With this new peer-reviewed volume of focused research on early Egypt, the 41 contributors dedicated their research to various questions surrounding prehistoric Egypt, the emergence of Pharaonic civilization and the territorial state. While some papers present new archaeological results from on-going excavations, others involve the analysis and interpretation of previously known evidence from the different regions along the Nile Valley. A large group of papers specifically discuss the area of ancient Memphis, which was also a central theme of the conference helping to summarize 20 years of research at the archaeological site of Helwan. Following the good tradition of previous Origins conferences, a very large number of papers are dedicated to the area of Lower Egypt and the Nile Delta from early prehistoric through to the early Old Kingdom periods. These papers highlight the significance and enormous progress of archaeological fieldwork in an area that was long considered an uninhabitable swampland in prehistoric times. Other papers report on new fieldwork at different sites in a largely unexplored region of the Egyptian Nile Valley - the Eastern Desert of Middle Egypt, where active mining on a very large scale has taken place raising questions about the organization and scale of such activities during the formative periods of Egyptian civilization. There are numerous contributions on archaeological evidence from sites in Upper Egypt and their material culture, many of which having been excavated long ago but offering the opportunity to raise new questions.


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Ancient Egypt in its African context : economic networks, social and cultural interactions
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ISBN: 1009070630 1009074547 1009083805 1009083082 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This Element is aimed at discussing the relations between Egypt and its African neighbours. In the first section, the history of studies, the different kind of sources available on the issue, and a short outline of the environmental setting is provided. In the second section the relations between Egypt and its African neighbours from the late Prehistory to Late Antique times are summarized. In the third section the different kinds of interactions are described, as well as their effects on the lives of individuals and groups, and the related cultural dynamics, such as selection, adoption, entanglement and identity building. Finally, the possible future perspective of research on the issue is outlined, both in terms of methods, strategies, themes and specific topics, and of regions and sites whose exploration promises to provide a crucial contribution to the study of the relations between Egypt and Africa.


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Proceedings of the 29th International Congress of Papyrology, Lecce, 28th July-3rd August 2019
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ISBN: 9788883051760 9788883051777 8883051777 Year: 2022 Publisher: Lecce Centro di Studi Papirologici dell' Università del Salento

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The 29th International Congress of Papyrology took place from 28 July to 3 August 2019 in the city of Lecce.In the Congress week the papers were presented in thematic sessions, which were accompanied by workshops, panels and posters. A single plenary session was dedicated to the discussion of the Future of Editing Papyri: Aspects and Problems. A total of 285 papers and posters were presented, of which 93 are published here.The works presented at the Congress covered all aspects of Papyrology. Seventeen sessions were devoted to documentary papyri, five to literary papyri, five to Herculaneum papyri, two to juridical papyri, one to archaeology and papyri, two to Palaeography, two to Christian papyri, three to unpublished collections, one to the history of papyrology, one to Islamic documentary papyri, two to magic papyri, two to experimental sciences, two to conservation and restoration, one to Latin papyri, one to new technologies, two to Coptic papyri; two to ostraka and other supports; one to Arabic Papyrology; two to linguistics of the papyri; two to paraliterary papyri. The most relevant innovations came from the sessions devoted to unpublished collections, to new technologies, and to experimental sciences.The plenary session Future of Editing Papyri: Aspects and Problems allowed for profitable discussions about the systems of publishing papyri (including Demotic, Arabic and Coptic ones), the access to collections and, more generally, the future of Papyrology


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Religious Identifications in Late Antique Papyri : 3rd-12th Century Egypt
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ISBN: 1000735737 1003287875 1032263490 1000735761 Year: 2022 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom : Routledge,

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This volume provides novel social-scientific and historical approaches to religious identifications in Late Antique (3rd-12th century) Egyptian papyri, bridging the gap between two academic fields that have been infrequently in full conversation: papyrology and the study of religion. Through eleven in-depth case studies of Christian, Islamic, "Pagan", Jewish, Manichaean, and Hermetic texts and objects, this book offers new interpretations on markers of religious identity in papyrus documents written in Coptic, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic. Using papyri as a window into the lives of ordinary believers, it explores their religious behaviour and choices in everyday life. Three valuable perspectives are outlined and explored in these documents: a critical reflection on the concept of identity and the role of religious groups, a situational reading of religious repertoire and symbols, and a focus on speech acts as performative and efficacious utterances. Religious Identifications in Late Antique Papyri offers a wide scope and comparative approach to this topic, suitable for students and scholars of late antiquity and Egypt as well as those interested in late antique religion.


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Trade centers and trade routes in Upper Egypt, during the Old and Middle Kingdoms
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ISBN: 9781906137793 190613779X Year: 2022 Publisher: London : Golden House Publications,


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Wer schreibt die Geschichte(n)? : die 8. bis frühe 12. Dynastie im Licht ägyptologischer und ägyptischer Sinnbildungen
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ISBN: 9783943955279 3943955273 Year: 2022 Publisher: Hamburg Widmaier Verlag

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This study concerns itself with the 8th to early 12th dynasties. A period allegedly interpreted by the Egyptians themselves as a period of change and divided into a time of decline and a time of restoration or renaissance. Antonia Giewekemeyer reconsiders these Egyptological reconstructions by both analysing their scholarly development and by surveying the available contemporaneous Egyptian sources. As a result, she argues that the Egyptian sources emphasise continuation and coherence instead of restauration or renaissance. Furthermore, she demonstrates how the modern experience of change affected and finally misled Egyptological reconstructions.


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The Arab World Upended : Revolution and Its Aftermath in Tunisia and Egypt
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ISBN: 162637631X 1626376204 Year: 2022 Publisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers,

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After the autocratic regimes in the seemingly unassailable police states of Tunisia and Egypt suddenly collapsed in 2011, the Islamic parties that took over quickly succumbed in turn to further massive uprisings, this time by disaffected secularists and, in the case of Egypt, with the support of the army. What explains this? And why do the current regimes in both countries remain so fragile? Addressing these questions, drawing on years of first-hand, in-depth research, David Ottaway explores the causes of the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, the reasons for their radically differing outcomes, and the likely trajectory of the two countries’ political development.


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Power and regions in ancient states : an Egyptian and Mesoamerican perspective
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ISBN: 1108907369 1108816223 1108900232 110890050X Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The aim of the Element is to provide a comprehensive comparison of the basic organization of power in Mesoamerica and Egypt. How power emerged and was exercised, how it reproduced itself, how social units (from households to cities) became integrated into political formation and how these articulations of power expanded and collapsed over time. The resilience of particular areas (Oaxaca, Middle Egypt), to the point that they preserved a highly distinctive cultural personality when they were included or not within states, may provide a useful guideline about the basics of integration, negotiation and autonomy in the organization of political formations.

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