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Profiling Cleopatra
A Psychosocial History
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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This Element adopts a psychosocial historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic royal house. It investigates key themes that emerge from the data, including childhood trauma and displacement, sibling homicide, her relationships with …
Hieroglyphs, Pseudo-Scripts and Alphabets
Their Use and Reception in Ancient Egypt and Neighbouring Regions
Av Ben Haring
Häftad, 2023
311 kr
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The Egyptian hieroglyphic script was exceptionally versatile, as becomes clear when studying its multiple uses both within Ancient Egypt and beyond its borders. Even the few cases discussed in this Element demonstrate that in the ancient world hieroglyphs appealed to a wide readership, which ranged …
Egypt and the Desert
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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Deserts, the Red Land, bracket the narrow strip of alluvial Black Land that borders the Nile. Networks of desert roads ascended to the high desert from the Nile Valley, providing access to the mineral wealth and Red Sea ports of the Eastern Desert, the oasis depressions and trade networks of the …
Monarchies and the Organization of Power
Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Compared (2100-1750 BC)
Av Juan Carlos Moreno García, Seth Richardson
Häftad, 2025
275 kr
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This Element explores the organization of power in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and the interaction of diverse social actors between 2100 and 1750 BC. On the one hand, the forms of integration of towns and villages in larger political entities and the role played by local authorities, with a focus …
The Archaeology of Egyptian Non-Royal Burial Customs in New Kingdom Egypt and Its Empire
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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This Element provides a new evaluation of burial customs in New Kingdom Egypt, from about 1550 to 1077 BC, with an emphasis on burials of the wider population. It also covers the regions then under Egyptian control: the Southern Levant and the area of Nubia as far as the Fourth Cataract. The …
Technology and Culture in Pharaonic Egypt
Actor Network Theory and the Archaeology of Things and People
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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The inherent paradox of Egyptology is that the objective of its study - people living in Egypt in Pharaonic times - are never the direct object of its studies. Egyptology, as well as archaeology in general, approach ancient lives through material (and sometimes immaterial) remains. This Element …
Urban Life and Form in Ancient Egypt
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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Taking into account archaeological and written sources, Egypt's urban past is remarkably evident throughout the pharaonic period, as can be demonstrated by a selection of relevant examples. There is also evidence of some unusual forms of towns and cities that do not readily fit into the common …
Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century Museum
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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This Element addresses the cultural production of ancient Egypt in the museum as a mixture of multiple pasts and presents that cohere around collections; their artefacts, documentation, storage, research, and display. Its four sections examine how ideas about the past are formed by museum …
Scribal Culture in Ancient Egypt
Av Niv Allon, Hana Navratilova
Häftad, 2023
282 kr
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This Element seeks to characterize the scribal culture in ancient Egypt through its textual acts, which were of prime importance in this culture: writing, list-making, drawing, and copying. Drawing upon texts, material objects, and archeological evidence, this Element will touch upon main themes at …
Ancient Egypt in its African Context
Economic Networks, Social and Cultural Interactions
Av Andrea Manzo
Häftad, 2022
291 kr
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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 …
Famine and Feast in Ancient Egypt
Av Ellen Morris
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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This Element is about the creation and curation of social memory in pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt. Ancient, Classical, Medieval, and Ottoman sources attest to the horror that characterized catastrophic famines. Occurring infrequently and rarely reaching the canonical seven-years' length, famines …
Making Memories in Ancient Egypt
Häftad, 2025
301 kr
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Memory is a fascinating way to approach modern and ancient cultures, as it raises questions about what, why, and how individuals and groups remember. Egyptology has had a major impact on the development of memory studies, with Jan Assmann's notion of cultural memory becoming a widespread model …
Egypt and the Levant
Networks and Negotiations in the Bronze Age
Häftad, 2026
284 kr
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Egypt and the Levant witnessed complex transformations across the Bronze Age. Beyond the rise and collapse of powerful cities and states were the long-distance connectivities that enabled the movements of people and animals, and the interlinked exchanges of commodities and ideas. By the Late Bronze …
Profiling Cleopatra
A Psychosocial History
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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This Element adopts a psychosocial historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic royal house. It investigates key themes that emerge from the data, including childhood trauma and displacement, sibling homicide, her relationships with …
Immigration and Borders in Ancient Egypt
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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The aim of this Element is to explore borders in ancient Egypt - both the territorial and ideological boundaries of the state as well as the divisions such lines draw between 'Egyptians' and 'Others.' Despite the traditional understanding of ancient Egypt as an insular society isolated by its …
Immigration and Borders in Ancient Egypt
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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The aim of this Element is to explore borders in ancient Egypt - both the territorial and ideological boundaries of the state as well as the divisions such lines draw between 'Egyptians' and 'Others.' Despite the traditional understanding of ancient Egypt as an insular society isolated by its …
Nomads in Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Häftad, 2026
406 kr
Kommande
Nomads were a frequent fixture in the ancient landscapes of Northeast Africa and the Nile basin. Maligned by ancient riverine cultures and ignored by many historians, the nomads of ancient Egypt and Nubia comprise diverse groups of people for whom the desert was their home and herding was a way of …
Nomads in Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Inbunden, 2026
1202 kr
Kommande
Nomads were a frequent fixture in the ancient landscapes of Northeast Africa and the Nile basin. Maligned by ancient riverine cultures and ignored by many historians, the nomads of ancient Egypt and Nubia comprise diverse groups of people for whom the desert was their home and herding was a way of …
Monarchies and the Organization of Power
Ancient Egypt and Babylonia Compared (2100-1750 BC)
Av Juan Carlos Moreno García, Seth Richardson
Inbunden, 2025
854 kr
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This Element explores the organization of power in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and the interaction of diverse social actors between 2100 and 1750 BC. On the one hand, the forms of integration of towns and villages in larger political entities and the role played by local authorities, with a focus …
Making Memories in Ancient Egypt
Inbunden, 2025
836 kr
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Memory is a fascinating way to approach modern and ancient cultures, as it raises questions about what, why, and how individuals and groups remember. Egyptology has had a major impact on the development of memory studies, with Jan Assmann's notion of cultural memory becoming a widespread model …
Egypt and the Levant
Networks and Negotiations in the Bronze Age
Inbunden, 2026
918 kr
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Egypt and the Levant witnessed complex transformations across the Bronze Age. Beyond the rise and collapse of powerful cities and states were the long-distance connectivities that enabled the movements of people and animals, and the interlinked exchanges of commodities and ideas. By the Late Bronze …
Urban Life and Form in Ancient Egypt
Inbunden, 2026
918 kr
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Taking into account archaeological and written sources, Egypt's urban past is remarkably evident throughout the pharaonic period, as can be demonstrated by a selection of relevant examples. There is also evidence of some unusual forms of towns and cities that do not readily fit into the common …
Ceramic Perspectives on Ancient Egyptian Society
Häftad, 2021
311 kr
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This Element demonstrates how ceramics, a dataset that is more typically identified with chronology than social analysis, can forward the study of Egyptian society writ large. This Element argues that the sheer mass of ceramic material indicates the importance of pottery to Egyptian life. Ceramics …
Seeing Perfection
Ancient Egyptian Images beyond Representation
Av Rune Nyord
Häftad, 2020
291 kr
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This Element offers a new approach to ancient Egyptian images informed by interdisciplinary work in archaeology, anthropology, and art history. Sidestepping traditional perspectives on Egyptian art, the Element focuses squarely on the ontological status of the image in ancient thought and …
Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs
Past and Present Approaches in Egyptology
Häftad, 2020
317 kr
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Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs deals with ancient Egyptian concept of collective identity, various groups which inhabited the Egyptian Nile Valley and different approaches to ethnic identity in the last two hundred years of Egyptology. The aim is to present the dynamic processes of …
Power and Regions in Ancient States
An Egyptian and Mesoamerican Perspective
Av Gary M. Feinman, Juan Carlos Moreno García
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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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 …
Coffin Commerce
How a Funerary Materiality Formed Ancient Egypt
Häftad, 2021
311 kr
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This discussion will be centered on one ubiquitous and rather simple Egyptian object type - the wooden container for the human corpse. We will focus on the entire 'lifespan' of the coffin - how they were created, who bought them, how they were used in funerary rituals, where they were placed in a …
The Nile
Mobility and Management
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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The ancient Egyptian kingdoms, at their greatest extent, stretched more than 2000 kilometres along the Nile and passed through diverse habitats. In the north, the Nile traversed the Mediterranean coast and the Delta, while further south a thread of cultivation along the Nile Valley passed through …
