Ramses and Rebellion: Showdown of False and True Horus
The paper gives an overview of what is known about the shadowy figure Mehy (dyn. 19) and adds a hypothesis of what became of him.
When a Book of the Dead text does not match archaeology: the case of the protective magical bricks
Consideration of this funerary rite will show how and why the practical application of the ritual in tombs could differ from the tradition noted in manuscripts; in other words, cases where reality does not match the text.
The guardian-demons of the Book of the Dead
From an ontological point of view, I would define these guardian-figures as
Pharaoh Sety II and Egyptian Political Relations with Canaan at the End of the Late Bronze Age
This paper had its origins in work undertaken by the first-named author while preparing publication of the Hebrew Union College expedition
Ramesses, "King of Kings": On the Context and Interpretation of Royal Colossi
The nature of kingship has been among the most intensively studied aspects of Egyptian culture and cannot be adequately addressed here. My interest lies specifically in the creation, definition and separation of distinct royal identities, mobilised through the colossi, which became the objects of cult. It is an axiom that the king of Egypt was held to be divine, although the concept was evidently mutable over time.
Aspects of ancient Near Eastern chronology (c. 1600-700 BC)
The aim of my thesis has been to investigate the chronology of the Near East during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age periods (c. 1600–700 BC) to see whether or not the current ‘conventional’ chronology is as reliable as its adherents maintain…
The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 BC
The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 BC Ian Morris Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: December (2005) Abstract Greece between 1500…
Communal Agriculture in the Ptolemaic and Roman Fayyum
My approach to land rights is social and economic rather than juristic. In other words, I am not interested in the interpretation of ancient legal terms according to Roman or civil law categories, which risks imposing rigid categories on social relations that have little explanatory power…In this paper, I use the economic concepts of communal and private land rights to illuminate these relations.
The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 BC
Greece between 1500 and 500 BC is one of the best known examples of the phenomenon of the regeneration of complex society after a collapse. I review 10 core dimensions of this process (urbanism, tax and rent, monuments, elite power, information- recording systems, trade, crafts, military power, scale, and standards of living), and suggest that punctuated equilibrium models accommodate the data better than gradualist interpretations.