The Architecture of Mastaba Tombs in the Unas Cemetery
Ashley Cooke | 2020
Until comparatively recently, there has been little attempt to produce a detailed study of the architectural make-up of multi-roomed mastaba tombs and the implications of these observations for understanding the ways in which this type…
Creatures of Earth, Water and Sky
Essays on Animals in Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Edited by Stéphanie Porcier, Salima Ikram & Stéphane Pasquali | 2019
Ancient Egyptians always had an intense and complex relationship with animals in daily life as well as in religion. Despite the fact that research on this relationship has been a topic of study, gaps in…
Digging up the Bible?
The Excavations at Tell Deir Alla, Jordan (1960-1967)
Margreet L. Steiner & Bart Wagemakers | 2019
This is the account of a remarkable excavation. It started with a modest dig on an unremarkable tell in Jordan. The name of the tell does not occur in the Bible, and no ancient town…
Looking Closely
Excavations at Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan, 2010 – 2014
Edited by Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck & Birgül Öğüt | 2019
Soviet archaeological research in southern Turkmenistan revealed a series of small Late Neolithic and Aeneolithic villages strung along the streams that emerge from the Kopet Dag and water the narrow foothill zone separating the mountains…
From ‘LUGAL.GAL’ to ‘Wanax’
Kingship and Political Organisation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean
Edited by Jorrit M. Kelder & Willemijn J. I. Waal | 2019
In this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 BC) is analysed and contextualised through the prism of archaeology and contemporary textual (Linear B, Egyptian and Hittite) evidence. From the…
Perspectives on Lived Religion
Practices - Transmission - Landscape
Edited by Nico Staring, Huw Twiston Davies and Lara Weiss | 2019
Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised, and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if…
The naos of Amasis
A monument for the reawakening of Osiris
Marco Zecchi | 2019
The naos AM 107 of the Museum of Antiquities in Leiden was made by order of king Amasis in the 6th century BC, a period that saw an intense production of monolithic shrines. Despite its…
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The Architecture of Mastaba Tombs in the Unas Cemetery
Ashley Cooke | 2020
Until comparatively recently, there has been little attempt to produce a detailed study of the architectural make-up of multi-roomed mastaba tombs and the implications of these observations for understanding the ways in which this type…
Creatures of Earth, Water and Sky
Essays on Animals in Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Edited by Stéphanie Porcier, Salima Ikram & Stéphane Pasquali | 2019
Ancient Egyptians always had an intense and complex relationship with animals in daily life as well as in religion. Despite the fact that research on this relationship has been a topic of study, gaps in…
Digging up the Bible?
The Excavations at Tell Deir Alla, Jordan (1960-1967)
Margreet L. Steiner & Bart Wagemakers | 2019
This is the account of a remarkable excavation. It started with a modest dig on an unremarkable tell in Jordan. The name of the tell does not occur in the Bible, and no ancient town…
Looking Closely
Excavations at Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan, 2010 – 2014
Edited by Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck & Birgül Öğüt | 2019
Soviet archaeological research in southern Turkmenistan revealed a series of small Late Neolithic and Aeneolithic villages strung along the streams that emerge from the Kopet Dag and water the narrow foothill zone separating the mountains…
From ‘LUGAL.GAL’ to ‘Wanax’
Kingship and Political Organisation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean
Edited by Jorrit M. Kelder & Willemijn J. I. Waal | 2019
In this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 BC) is analysed and contextualised through the prism of archaeology and contemporary textual (Linear B, Egyptian and Hittite) evidence. From the…
Perspectives on Lived Religion
Practices - Transmission - Landscape
Edited by Nico Staring, Huw Twiston Davies and Lara Weiss | 2019
Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised, and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if…
The naos of Amasis
A monument for the reawakening of Osiris
Marco Zecchi | 2019
The naos AM 107 of the Museum of Antiquities in Leiden was made by order of king Amasis in the 6th century BC, a period that saw an intense production of monolithic shrines. Despite its…
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