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…
The Ancient Egyptian Footwear Project
Final Archaeological Analysis
André J. Veldmeijer | 2019
The Ancient Egyptian Footwear Project (AEFP) is a multidisciplinary, ongoing research of footwear in ancient Egypt from the Predynastic through the Ottoman Periods. It consists of the study of actual examples of footwear, augmented by…
Cyprus. A Dynamic Island
Edited by Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma en Despina Pilides | 2019
Cyprus has a long and eventful history. The island lies in the eastern Mediterranean, where the cultures of Anatolia, Assyria, the Levant, Egypt, and Greece flourished in antiquity. Each of these great civilisations has left…
Tracing Technoscapes
The Production of Bronze Age Wall Paintings in the Eastern Mediterranean
Edited by Johannes Becker, Johannes Jungfleisch & Constance von Rüden | 2018
Colourful surface treatments form an integral element of vernacular and élite architecture of ancient societies. This is also true for the various regions of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd millennium B.C.E., where elaborate wall…
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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…
The Ancient Egyptian Footwear Project
Final Archaeological Analysis
André J. Veldmeijer | 2019
The Ancient Egyptian Footwear Project (AEFP) is a multidisciplinary, ongoing research of footwear in ancient Egypt from the Predynastic through the Ottoman Periods. It consists of the study of actual examples of footwear, augmented by…
Cyprus. A Dynamic Island
Edited by Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma en Despina Pilides | 2019
Cyprus has a long and eventful history. The island lies in the eastern Mediterranean, where the cultures of Anatolia, Assyria, the Levant, Egypt, and Greece flourished in antiquity. Each of these great civilisations has left…
Tracing Technoscapes
The Production of Bronze Age Wall Paintings in the Eastern Mediterranean
Edited by Johannes Becker, Johannes Jungfleisch & Constance von Rüden | 2018
Colourful surface treatments form an integral element of vernacular and élite architecture of ancient societies. This is also true for the various regions of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd millennium B.C.E., where elaborate wall…
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