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Bubastis: City of the Feline Goddess
For more than three millennia, the city of Bubastis was one of the most important cities of the Nile Delta and all of Egypt. It was the cult center of the lioness goddess Bastet, who became most famous in her later form as a sacred cat. The Greek historian Herodotus visited the city and gave a lively description of its temple and the famous cultic festivals of the goddess. Although the temple of Bastet is badly destroyed, excavations in the last 150 years have revealed much of its grandeur. Apart from the temple, the ancient site boasts other important monuments and buildings, including palaces, residences, further temples, and extensive cemeteries, some of which are unique in Egyptian archaeology. Eva Lange-Athinodorou, the director of the Tell Basta Project, a German-Egyptian archaeological mission at Bubastis, provides a vivid summary of its archaeological remains, combining old results with the latest research conducted by the project.
The Nile Delta
Tells fascinating stories from across the c.7000-year history of the Nile Delta from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century.
The Delta Survey Workshop: Proceedings from Conferences held in Alexandria (2017) and Mansoura (2019)
This volume comprises the proceedings of two conferences organised by the Delta Survey Project held in Alexandria in 2017 and Mansoura in 2019. The papers contain the results of the latest fieldwork from the Nile Delta and Sinai.
Egypt's Golden Couple
Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. The king has achieved fame as the world's first individual and the first monotheist, but others have seen him as an incestuous tyrant who nearly ruined the kingdom he ruled. The gold funerary mask of his son Tutankhamun and the painted bust of his wife Nefertiti are the most recognizable artifacts from all of ancient Egypt. But who were Akhenaten and Nefertiti? And what do we actually know about rulers who lived more than three thousand years ago? It has been one hundred years since the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, and although "King Tut" is a household name, his nine-year rule pales in compariso...
A Rosetta Key For History
This work explores the use of a time chart based on generations as a way to understand history. A sole reliance on yearly dating tends to obscure the historical reality and deter us from further exploration. However, patterns are revealed if we number generations, and we become intrigued by the connections and hypotheses raised. The author uses 15-year intervals to date events and mark when people turn 30 and tend to enter history. The 15-year generational interval was first used by the medieval historian, Bede, and later advocated by Ortega E Gasset, a leading Spanish philosopher of the 20th century. In brief, the phases of history found are: 1) A partly invisible beginning phase; 0-15 gene...
Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Palaces
This collection of studies on palaces in Ancient Egypt is the result of a conference organised by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Wurzburg and the Egypt Exploration Society from 12th to 14th of June 2013 in London. The result is a compilation of information - archaeological and textual - one can resort to in order to develop strategies to understand architectural and functional variations and recognise schemes of building canons for palaces in Ancient Egypt. In addition, the understanding of Ancient Egyptian palaces is amplified with specialised studies regarding architectural and administrative terminology. The combined evidence shows that there was indeed a variability ...
Middle Kingdom Palace Culture and Its Echoes in the Provinces
The chapters of Middle Kingdom Palace Culture and Its Echoes in the Provinces discuss the degree of influence that provincial developments played in reshaping the Egyptian state and culture during the Middle Kingdom. Contributors to the volume are Egyptologists from around the world who have developed their research following a conference held at the University of Jaén in Spain.
Variability in the Earlier Egyptian Mortuary Texts
This book spins around the convening idea of variability to offer fourteen new views into the Pyramid and Coffin Texts and related materials that overarch archaeology, philology, linguistics, writing studies, religious studies and social history by applying innovative approaches such as agency, politeness, material philology and object-based studies, and under a strong empirical focus. In this book, you will find from a previously unpublished coffin or a reinterpretation of the so-called ‘Letters to the Dead’ to graffiti’s interaction with monumental inscriptions, ‘subatomic’ studies in the spellings of the Osiris’ name or the puzzles of text transmission, among other novel topics.
The Good Kings
Written in the tradition of historians like Mary Beard and Stacy Schiff who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the country's 3,000-year empire and its meaning today. In a new era when democracies around the world are threatened or crumbling, best-selling author Kara Cooney turns to five ancient Egyptian pharaohs--Khufu, Senwosret III, Akenhaten, Ramses II, and Taharqa--to understand why many so often give up power to the few, and what it can mean for our future. As the first centralized political power on earth, the pharaohs and their process of divine ki...
Sedfestritual und Königtum
Das sogenannte Sedfest, eines der substantiellsten ägyptischen Königsrituale, ist über den gesamten Zeitraum der altägyptischen Geschichte in bildlichen und schriftlichen Quellen belegt. Unter diesen nimmt die Reliefdekoration des Torbaus Osorkons II. (Libyerzeit, 22. Dyn., 874?850 v. Chr.) im Tempel der Hauptgöttin von Bubastis mit umfangreich überlieferten Episoden der Kulthandlungen und Rituale des Sedfestes eine herausragende Rolle ein. Nach ihrer Entdeckung durch Edouard Naville 1887 und der darauffolgenden Erstpublikation 1892 wurde dieses Material jedoch in der Forschung nur sehr wenig beachtet. Die hier vorgelegte Monographie analysiert nun auf der Grundlage aktueller Feldstudi...
