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The full book can be downloaded for free at the attached URL at wachholtz-verlag.de. How can we identify balance weights in the archaeological record? What economic changes did such objects bring about? And were formal marketplaces a... more
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      Egyptology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Mesopotamian Archaeology, Egyptian Archaeology
The harpists’ songs from the Saqqara New Kingdom necropolis come from a variety of dates and tomb-contexts. The texts of these songs show little direct intertextuality or quotation between one another, but borrow from a common stock of... more
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      Egyptology, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egyptian Music
The Egyptian Museum of Florence, in collaboration with the University of Florence, hosted the Eleventh International Congress of Egyptologists which took place from 23rd to 30th August 2015, under the patronage of the IAE-International... more
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      Egyptology, Ramesside Period, Medinet Habu
Los estudios de J. Assmann sobre las características que tiene la memoria cultural en las primeras civilizaciones han originado diferentes debates además de haber abierto nuevas líneas de investigación. En este trabajo analizaremos qué se... more
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      Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ancient History, Cultural History, Egyptology
El presente artículo es fruto de una investigación sobre la representación de la danza en las tumbas tebanas privadas del Reino Nuevo (1550-1070 a.C.). En él se pretende poner en contexto la representación de la danza dentro de las... more
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      Egyptology, Dance, Theban Tombs, Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology
Die Arbeit behandelt den Zusammenhang von Identität und materieller Kultur, die bis heute in der Archäologie grundlegender Gegenstand der Forschung ist. Anfangs ging man von einem direkten Zusammenhang zwischen materieller Kultur, also... more
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      Archaeology, Egyptology, Self and Identity, Egyptian Art and Archaeology
This study analyses the Bent Pyramid measurements resulting from the Survey-Data Plan carry out by Sir William Flinders Petrie. First, these measures suggest that Egyptian builders have planned the characteristic dual slope design, the... more
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      Egyptology, Egyptian Archaeology, History of Egyptology, Ancient Egyptian History
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      Ancient History, Egyptology, Anthropology, Biblical Archaeology
E-book. Lahore, Pakistan ©2019 ASAS (A Roads and Religions Research Initiative e-publication) New archaeological and geological discoveries during last few decades open ways to reinterpret certain historical accounts in Abrahamic sacred... more
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      Comparative Religion, Archaeology, Egyptology, Near Eastern Archaeology
Histoire et civilisations du Soudan, de la Préhistoire à nos jours — full and free version Les éditions Soleb sont heureuses d'annoncer la publication des versions numériques, offertes aux lecteurs, d’Histoire et civilisations du... more
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      Ancient History, Archaeology, Egyptology, Prehistoric Archaeology
Our exhaustive database, which contains approximately 1500 titled individuals known in the provinces, allows us to analyse the social stratification of the provincial elites in the 3rd Millennium BC. This paper focuses especially on the... more
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      Egyptology, Social Stratification, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Old Kingdom (Egyptology)
By focusing on the development of the administration and its changes and turning points during the Old Kingdom period, this contribution proposes a dynamic model of bureaucratic evolution at that time punctuated by several ground-breaking... more
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      Social Change, Egyptology, Social Networks, Complex Networks
The Napatan Cylindrical Sheaths provides a complete analysis of the precious finds discovered at the royal cemetery of Nuri (Sudan) for the first time. This volume critically analyses translations of the inscriptions and identifies the... more
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      Egyptology, Nubian-Egyptian Relations, Nubia, History of Egyptology
This paper examines the socio-environmental conditions under which wet and saline agricultural margins 2 located in the area of the Lake Menzaleh (NE Delta) were occupied and conceptualized by ascetic monks in the late fourth century CE.... more
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      Archaeology, Egyptology, Classics, Environmental History
La légende de la malédiction de Toutânkhamon est montée de toutes pièces par les journaux à sensation, quand, en 1923, Lord Carnarvon, le mécène qui finança les fouilles d’Howard Carter, meurt des suites d’une piqûre de moustique qui... more
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      Egyptology, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Egyptian Archaeology, Egyptian History
Why the Indus script has so many aTTa(tower)/ asta(house)/ashTa(eight)/hasta(hand;ha-asta>heaven)/ haTTa(market)/gopura(go-pura>go-kula> kha> ha> gagana> aakaasa>svar>svar-ga>Kusa-sthali>Dvara-ka / Tower /multiplex symbols? What is the... more
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      History, Ancient History, Egyptology, Languages and Linguistics
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Literature: E.Otto, Anthropological Foundations of Morality in Ancient Culture (Harvard University Press). Weitere Literatur siehe anbei. Sie ist unter Eckart Otto/ academia.edu im Netz abrufbar.
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      Egyptology, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Near East, Ancient Greek Philosophy
This paper deals with the much debated question (and its treatment by ancient historians and papyrologists) of the extent to which continuity or change characterized the transition of the Nile Valley from Ptolemaic to Roman rule and of... more
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      History, Ancient History, Military History, Economic History
Cet article est une annexe de notre document principal, La Grande Pyramide décodée. Nous montrons le message d'une grande simplicité, qui était caché dans la géométrie très particulière de la pyramide rhomboïde de Dashour. Cette... more
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      Egyptology, Egyptian Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, PYRAMID
This article is an annex part of our main paper, The Great Pyramid Decoded. We show the message of great simplicity, which was hidden in the very particular geometry of the rhomboid pyramid of Dashour. This discovery, subsequent to our... more
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      Egyptology, Egyptian Archaeology, PYRAMID, ancient Egypytian pyramids