Animal Mummies
From Research to Outreach at the Allard Pierson
Edited by Ben van den Bercken | 2025
Ancient Egyptian animal mummies can be found in almost every Egyptological museum collection. These mummified bodies of animals—from cats and falcons to scarabs and fish—played a role in animal cults and religion, but could also…
Tepe Sadegh, a Bronze Age settlement on the Sistan Plain
Pottery, Chronology, and Interactions
Setareh Ebrahimiabareghi | 2025
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the typology and chronology of pottery from Tepe Sadegh, located on the Sistan Plain of southeastern Iran. Tepe Sadegh, a suburban settlement situated 75 km southeast of…
Dem Wandel auf der Spur
Bauen und Wohnen in Monjukli Depe und Umgebung, Turkmenistan
Ilia Heit | 2025
Die ersten Gemeinschaften von Ackerbauern und Viehzüchtern traten im Kopet-Dag-Vorland in Südturkmenistan Ende des 7. Jahrtausends v. Chr. auf und läuteten eine lange Geschichte dörflichen Lebens in Lehmziegelbauten ein. Dieses Buch untersucht das Bauen und…
The lost mummy of Djedhor
Reconstructing the burial of a Ptolemaic priest from Thebes
Maarten J. Raven | 2025
In the rich archives of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities lies a fascinating manuscript dealing with the autopsy on an Ancient Egyptian mummy. This was performed in 1878 by the Museum’s curator Willem Pleyte. Thanks…
The Late Roman Settlement of Umm al-Dabadib
A Remote Investigation
Edited by Corinna Rossi | 2025
How to investigate an archaeological site that became inaccessible? When the Egyptian Western Desert was closed for security reasons in 2016 just before the start of the first archaeological excavation at Umm al-Dabadib, in the…
Spaces and Meaning
Multimodal Communication in Ancient Egypt
Edited by Silvia Kutscher & Dina Serova | 2025
Multimodality – the integration of different semiotic resources in communication – plays a key role in the way people convey meaning. While much of the research has focused on multimodal communication in modern European and…
Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities in the Archaeology of Southwest Asia
Papers in Honour of Roger Matthews
Edited by Claudia Glatz, Mónica Palmero Fernández, Amy Richardson & Michael Seymour | 2025
This book features a collection of papers produced in honour of Roger Matthews, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Reading. Roger previously taught at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology (2001–2010), before which he…
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Animal Mummies
From Research to Outreach at the Allard Pierson
Edited by Ben van den Bercken | 2025
Ancient Egyptian animal mummies can be found in almost every Egyptological museum collection. These mummified bodies of animals—from cats and falcons to scarabs and fish—played a role in animal cults and religion, but could also…
Tepe Sadegh, a Bronze Age settlement on the Sistan Plain
Pottery, Chronology, and Interactions
Setareh Ebrahimiabareghi | 2025
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the typology and chronology of pottery from Tepe Sadegh, located on the Sistan Plain of southeastern Iran. Tepe Sadegh, a suburban settlement situated 75 km southeast of…
Dem Wandel auf der Spur
Bauen und Wohnen in Monjukli Depe und Umgebung, Turkmenistan
Ilia Heit | 2025
Die ersten Gemeinschaften von Ackerbauern und Viehzüchtern traten im Kopet-Dag-Vorland in Südturkmenistan Ende des 7. Jahrtausends v. Chr. auf und läuteten eine lange Geschichte dörflichen Lebens in Lehmziegelbauten ein. Dieses Buch untersucht das Bauen und…
The lost mummy of Djedhor
Reconstructing the burial of a Ptolemaic priest from Thebes
Maarten J. Raven | 2025
In the rich archives of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities lies a fascinating manuscript dealing with the autopsy on an Ancient Egyptian mummy. This was performed in 1878 by the Museum’s curator Willem Pleyte. Thanks…
The Late Roman Settlement of Umm al-Dabadib
A Remote Investigation
Edited by Corinna Rossi | 2025
How to investigate an archaeological site that became inaccessible? When the Egyptian Western Desert was closed for security reasons in 2016 just before the start of the first archaeological excavation at Umm al-Dabadib, in the…
Spaces and Meaning
Multimodal Communication in Ancient Egypt
Edited by Silvia Kutscher & Dina Serova | 2025
Multimodality – the integration of different semiotic resources in communication – plays a key role in the way people convey meaning. While much of the research has focused on multimodal communication in modern European and…
Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities in the Archaeology of Southwest Asia
Papers in Honour of Roger Matthews
Edited by Claudia Glatz, Mónica Palmero Fernández, Amy Richardson & Michael Seymour | 2025
This book features a collection of papers produced in honour of Roger Matthews, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Reading. Roger previously taught at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology (2001–2010), before which he…
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