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Top papers from your news feed from the last week Ancient Egyptian Warfare and Weapons by Ian Shaw | Bookmarked by Marsia Bealby Download Bookmark First Call for Papers, Posters 2015; notice of 41st Annual Symposium by The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Download Bookmark Hendrickx, S. & Eyckerman, M., Visual representation and state formation in Egypt. Archéo-Nil, 22 (2012): 23-72. by Stan Hendrickx | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris In Predynastic representations, strongly stylised animals and plants with symbolic values occur. The astonishing craftsmanship by which some objects were decorated shows that the artisans were capable of producing almost any kind of representation they would have desired. Therefore, if a representation is stylised, this should be intentional. One of the most important reasons for the stylisation will have been the fact that the artisans did not want to render the exact image of one individual animal, but on the contrary the general idea and characteristics of the animal. Another reason for... Download Bookmark Magie und Raum. Der magische Schutz ausgewählter Räume im alten Ägypten nebst einem Vergleich zu angrenzenden Kulturbereichen by Christoffer Theis | Bookmarked by Kasia Szpakowska Was the individual in Ancient Egypt completely at the mercy of demons, illnesses or other threats? Or could various practices be called upon to keep the likes of these at bay? Christoffer Theis examines written and archaeological sources, which verify the magical protection of various rooms and spaces in Ancient Egypt. He presents a detailed analysis and commentary of evidence available for the protection of the land of Egypt, its temples, houses, sleeping chambers, and graves. Legacies from other contemporary cultures, such as Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Syria-Palestine region are also... Download Bookmark Death and the city: ancient Rome and beyond by Walter Scheidel | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Epigraphic records from antiquity light on the seasonal distribution of mortality in the city of Rome, allowing us to draw inferences about the local disease environment. Endemic malaria appears to have made an important contribution to the mortality regime. Literary sources and osteological evidence likewise support the impression that the metropolitan disease environment was exceptionally severe. Investment in infrastructure and welfare provisions was unable to change this. Download Bookmark Rome, Tenochtitlan, and beyond: comparing empires across space and time by Walter Scheidel | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris This paper seeks to make a case for expanding the comparative study of premodern empires to include both Old World and New World cases. It explores the utility of concepts such as “empire” and “city-state” for our understanding of ancient Roman and Precolumbian Aztec history. This paper was prepared for the publication of the conference "Altera Roma: art and empire from the Aztecs to New Spain" held at the Getty Villa in Malibu, CA, in May 2010. Download Bookmark The Possible Origin of the Tent of Purification in the Egyptian Funerary Cult by James Hoffmeier | Bookmarked by Miroslav Barta Download Bookmark Multifunctionality and Hybrid Households - The Case of Ancient Egypt, in: M. Müller, Household Studies in Complex Societies: Micro-Archaeological and Textual Approaches, OIS 10 (2015), 447-462. by Nadine Moeller | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Download Bookmark „The archaeology of the ‘gold of valour’“, Egyptian Archaeology 40 (2012), 42-43. by Manfred Bietak | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Download Bookmark Pharaohs, Feasts, and Foreigners: Cooking, Foodways, and Agency on Ancient Egypt’s Southern Frontier by Stuart Smith | Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Download Bookmark Share your papers Upload Your Papers