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Agendas for Digital Palaeography in an Archaeological Context: Egypt 1800 BC [PDF]
Handwriting raises issues alive in archaeological debates, philosophical and historical. In turn, by their extreme fragmentariness, the earliest archaeological manuscripts could generate usefully different questions for the field of palaeography. Here,
Quirke, Stephen
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Rediscovering Sculptures from Tebtynis at the Museo Egizio in Turin [PDF]
This article presents three case studies from an ongoing research project on the statues and sculptural fragments from Tebtynis, discovered by Carlo Anti in the years 1930-1936 in the temple dedicated to the god Soknebtynis. Specifically, it examines the
Cafici, G., Deotto, G.
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On two arguments for fanaticism
Abstract Should we make significant sacrifices to ever‐so‐slightly lower the chance of extremely bad outcomes, or to ever‐so‐slightly raise the chance of extremely good outcomes? Fanaticism says yes: for every bad outcome, there is a tiny chance of extreme disaster that is even worse, and for every good outcome, there is a tiny chance of an enormous ...
Jeffrey Sanford Russell
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Djedkare’s pyramid complex: Preliminary report of the 2016 season [PDF]
The article presents the results of the 2016 archaeological season of the Egyptian mission in the pyramid complex of King Djedkare in South Saqqara. The works focused on the western part of the causeway where remains of a drainage was documented, and
Mohamed Megahed +2 more
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Yes Sir! An Analysis of the Superior/Subordinate Relationship in the Late Ramesside Letters [PDF]
In her 1994 article entitled ‘Idiolects in the Late Ramesside Letters’, Deborah Sweeney hypothesises that all choices made in the construction of personal letters are reflective of individual language variance.
Ridealgh, Kim
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Abstract Objectives This study presents biological affinities between the last hunter‐fisher‐gatherers and first food‐producing societies from the Nile Valley. We investigate odontometric and dental tissue proportion changes between these populations from the Middle Nile Valley and acknowledge the biological processes behind them.
Nicolas Martin +14 more
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The tombs of Kaisebi (AS 76) and Ptahwer (AS 76b) at Abusir South [PDF]
The excavations at Abusir South have already uncovered many tombs that have added valuable information to the general knowledge of the development of the Old Kingdom society, its burial and funeral habits, and last but not least social relations and ...
Veronika Dulíková +4 more
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Flinders Petrie and Eugenics at UCL
William Matthew Flinders Petrie is considered the father of scientific archaeology and is credited with developing a chronology of Ancient Egypt using the nondescript artefacts that other archaeologists had ignored.
Kathleen L. Sheppard
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Ritual tradition and transfer between shape and meaning – model beer jars in stone and pottery [PDF]
Recent research of vessels made in stone and pottery, undertaken by the present authors, proves the existence of a strong interconnection and transfer of shapes between these two materials.
Katarína Arias Kytnarová +1 more
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Rudolf Dvořák (1860–1920) – patron vzniku české egyptologie [PDF]
Rudolf Dvořák (1860–1920), the first professor of oriental languages at the Faculty of Arts of the Czech Carlo-Ferdinand University in Prague, showed a certain interest in Egyptology as well.
Ladislav Bareš
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