Egyptian royal sculpture of the late period, 400-246 B.C

Spanning ancient Egyptian culture (ca. 3200 B.C.E. to C.E. 400), theHandbook of Egyptian Mythologyis the only complete survey of Egyptian mythology of its kind available in English...

Abstract This unique collection of essays explores a series of objects in the Royal Collection as a means of assessing the interdependent histories of the royal f...

Abstract The British royal collection includes nearly 2,000 objects with a connection to Shakespeare, the majority of them acquired in the years since the Hanoverian...

In earlier periods of Egyptian history, cursive writing tends to display a certain degree of uniformity all over the country, and it is difficult to localize a hieratic text just o...

Abstract The legacy of the student movements in Egypt in the twentieth century makes some forms of political activity among Egyptian students, namely protests for na...

How can we study the late ancient and Byzantine history from ecological perspectives? How might one grapple with the more-than-human in sources and media created by humans? Explori...

This chapter provides a critical analysis of Demotic and Greek sources concerning private associations of Hellenistic Egypt, putting them into perspective in order to overcome the ...

Arabic prose poetry (al-shi'r al-manthur) is acontroversial yet to date understudied literary genre. In this book, Nevine Fayek traces the origins of the genre by...