Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt

Egypt is by far the best-documented province of the Roman Empire. The dryness of its climate means that an enormous number of literary and documentary papyri have survived - a uniq...

Abstract City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor examines the social and administrative transformation of Greek society within the early Roman empire,...

Abstract This book narrates the life and career of Mark Antony, which it sets against its contemporary social and cultural background. The origins and rise of the An...

An account of Egypt's foreign policy decline following the Arab Uprisings, explaining the causes, consequences, and dynamics of this decline. Egypt, traditionally...

AbstractWhat ambitions lay behind Roman provincial governance? How did these change over time and in response to local conditions? To what extent did local agents facilitate and co...

Fully illustrated, this book assesses the Roman and Dacian fighting men who clashed in three bloody encounters during the Dacian Wars of AD 85–106. While the Roma...

Abstract This book examines the institutional framework of money as an economic agent in imperial Rome, emphasizing its systemic complexity. Analyses focus on Roman ...

Since the coup of 2013 ended Egypt’s brief democratic experiment and retired army chief, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, became president of Egypt, his regime has unleashed mass repression a...