Queen of Kings: Kleopatra VII and the Donations of Alexandria
Queen of Kings: Kleopatra VII and the Donations of Alexandria Rolf Strootman Kingdoms and Principalities in the Roman Near East: Occidens et Oriens 19…
Inaros' rebellion Against Artaxerxes I and the Athenian Disaster in Egypt
The reconstruction of the rebellion of Inaros here will be based on Diodorus Siculus, Thucydides and Ctesias, but also on Aramaic and Egyptian documents from Egypt written in demotic script.”
Life Away from the Nile: Exploring Kharga Oasis in Egypts Western Desert
Lecture: Life Away from the Nile: Exploring Kharga Oasis in Egypt
Ancient Egyptian priests 'killed by rich ritual food'
The splendid banquets offered to ancient Egyptian gods may have been delicious and bountiful but they were also a killer, blocking the arteries…
King Tutankhamun died from broken leg and malaria
Egypt’s King Tut likely died from complications of a broken leg that was exacerbated by malaria, an extensive study of his mummy and…
Religion in the Ancient Novel
Religion plays a central role in the plot of virtually every fictional narrative, influencing the lives, actions, mentality, practices, beliefs, and eventual fates of the characters (and narrators); the types, interventions, and motives of divinity or other uncanny forces; the use of mythological exemplars.
Was the great Pharaoh Ramesses II a true redhead?
The University of Manchester is hosting a day school to discuss the scientific study of ancient Egyptian mummies, which will include the question,…
Texts, contexts, subtexts and interpretative frameworks. Beyond the parochial and toward (dynamic) modeling of the Ptolemaic state and the Ptolemaic economy
My concern in this paper is the historical interpretation of the Greek and demotic documentary papyri of the Ptolemaic period, the role of Archaeology in the context of Ptolemaic economic history, and the application of social science theory towards an understanding of Ptolemaic Egypt.
Real wages in early economies: Evidence for living standards from 1800 BCE to 1300 CE
In this paper, I present a critical survey of pertinent data from antiquity and the early and high Middle Ages.
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…