Egyptian Deportations of the Late Bronze Age

Egyptian Deportations of the Late Bronze Age
Author: Christian Langer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2021-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110732114

Egyptian Deportations of the Late Bronze Age explores the political economy of deportations in New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1550–1070 BCE) from an interdisciplinary angle. The analysis of ancient Egyptian primary source material and the international correspondence of the time draws a comprehensive picture of the complex and far-reaching policies. The dataset reveals their geographic scope, economic and demographic impact in Egypt and abroad as well as their interconnection with territorial expansion, international relations, and labour management. The supply chain, profiting institutions and individuals in Egypt as the well as the labour tasks, origins and the composition of the deportees are discussed in detail. A comparative analytical framework integrates the Egyptian policies with a review of deportation discourses as well as historical premodern and modern cases and enables a global and diachronic understanding of the topic. The study is thus the first systematic investigation of deportations in ancient Egyptian history and offers new insights into Egyptian governance that revise previous assessments of the role of forced migration und unfree labour in ancient Egyptian society and their long-term effects.

Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt

Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt
Author: Alexandre Loktionov
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2023-12-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1803275863

How did the Ancient Egyptians maintain control of their state? Topics include the controlling function of temples and theology, state borders, scribal administration, visual representation, patronage, and the Egyptian language itself, with reference to all periods of Egyptian history, from the Old Kingdom to Coptic times.

Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue – Volume 3

Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue – Volume 3
Author: Costanza Coppini
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803273410

Three volumes present the proceedings of the 6th Broadening Horizons Conference, which took place at the Freie Universität Berlin from 24–28 June, 2019. This volume - Volume 3 - contains 14 papers from Session 4 — Crossing Boundaries: Connectivity and Interaction; and Session 6 — Landscape and Geography: Human Dynamics and Perceptions.

A Lexicon of Ancient Egyptian Cryptography of the New Kingdom

A Lexicon of Ancient Egyptian Cryptography of the New Kingdom
Author: Joshua Aaron Roberson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2020-07-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110684047

This is the first synthesis on Egyptian enigmatic writing (also referred to as "cryptography") in the New Kingdom (c.1550-1070 BCE). Enigmatic writing is an extended practice of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, set against immediate decoding and towards revealing additional levels of meaning. The first volume consists of studies by the main specialists in the field. This second volume is a lexicon of all attested enigmatic signs and values.

The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia

The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia
Author: Claudia Glatz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108491103

This book reconsiders the concept of empire and examines the processes of imperial making and undoing in Hittite Anatolia (c. 1600-1180 BCE).

The Near East in the Southwest

The Near East in the Southwest
Author: Beth Alpert Nakhai
Publisher: American Society of Overseas Research
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:

Illustrated with 35 b/w figures. These essays were written in honour of William G Dever, doyen of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona, where he was Professor from 1975 until his retirement in 2001.

Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East

Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East
Author: Ömür Harmanşah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2013-03-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1107311187

This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking the complex processes behind the social production of urban space. During the Early Iron Age (c.1200–850 BCE), Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers developed a highly performative official discourse that revolved around constructing cities, cultivating landscapes, building watercourses, erecting monuments and initiating public festivals. This volume combs through archaeological, epigraphic, visual, architectural and environmental evidence to tell the story of a region from the perspective of its spatial practices, landscape history and architectural technologies. It argues that the cultural processes of the making of urban spaces shape collective memory and identity as well as sites of political performance and state spectacle.