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…
Cyprus. Eiland in beweging
Redactie: Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma en Despina Pilides | 2019
Cyprus kent een lange en veelbewogen geschiedenis. Het eiland ligt in het oostelijk Middellandse Zeegebied, waar in de oudheid de culturen van Anatolië, Assyrië, de Levant, Egypte en Griekenland bloeiden. Elk van deze grote beschavingen…
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…
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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…
Cyprus. Eiland in beweging
Redactie: Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma en Despina Pilides | 2019
Cyprus kent een lange en veelbewogen geschiedenis. Het eiland ligt in het oostelijk Middellandse Zeegebied, waar in de oudheid de culturen van Anatolië, Assyrië, de Levant, Egypte en Griekenland bloeiden. Elk van deze grote beschavingen…
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…
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