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Qasr Ibrim, Between Egypt and Africa

Author : Jacques van der Vliet
Publisher : Peeters
ISBN 13 : 9789042930308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Qasr Ibrim, Between Egypt and Africa written by Jacques van der Vliet and published by Peeters. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The natural citadel of Qasr Ibrim in Northern Nubia occupied for thousands of years a strategic position between Egypt and the Middle Nile region, the present-day Sudan. The rich archaeological and textual finds from the site document its history from the rule of the 'Black Pharaohs' of Egypt's 25th dynasty onwards until the Ottoman period. Briefly occupied by the Romans under Augustus, Qasr Ibrim flourished as a stronghold of Meroitic culture in the first centuries AD. In Late Antiquity, it was the political centre of a tiny kingdom, Nobadia, bordering on the Byzantine empire. Following the Christianization of the region in the fifth and sixth centuries, it became the see of a bishop, for whom a magnificent stone-built cathedral was erected. During the Arab conquest of Egypt, Nubia secured its independence under the kings of Makouria, who had their capital further south, in Old Dongola. Qasr Ibrim became the residence of the eparch of Noubadia, an official who played a pivotal role in the contacts between Christian Nubia and Islamic Egypt. The capture of the citadel by Shams ad-Dawla, Saladin's brother, in 1173, was a dramatic event that inaugurated the decline of the Christian kingdoms of Nubia in the later Middle Ages. This volume contains thirteen papers that focus on Qasr Ibrim as a key witness to cultural interaction between Egypt and the world of the Mediterranean on the one hand, and Africa, the Sudan and beyond on the other. Drawing their inspiration from the rich material found on site, these papers combine text-based and archaeological approaches. Particular attention is paid, for instance, to pottery and textile finds, while texts written in Demotic, Meroitic, Greek, Coptic, Old Nubian and Arabic are presented and discussed. Beyond the mere presentation of material, the volume addresses more general questions concerning cultural liminality, the role of indigenous versus foreign models and centre-periphery relations. Above all, however, it chronicles a fascinating chapter in the history of North-South contacts.

ANCIENT EGYPT IN AFRICA

Author : David O'Connor
Publisher : Left Coast Press
ISBN 13 : 1598742051
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book ANCIENT EGYPT IN AFRICA written by David O'Connor and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the evidence for actual contacts between Egypt and other early African cultures, and how influential, or not, Egypt was on them.

‘To See a World in a Grain of Sand’: Glass from Nubia and the Ancient Mediterranean

Author : Juliet V. Spedding
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803274506
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book ‘To See a World in a Grain of Sand’: Glass from Nubia and the Ancient Mediterranean written by Juliet V. Spedding and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using modern scientific methods, this book examines glass beads and vessel fragments dating from the Meroitic and Early Nobadia periods, providing a new assessment of glass from Nubia. Results reveal interrelationships between trade, technological understanding, and manufacturing choices across the cultures of Sudan, Egypt and the Mediterranean.

Rome, Empire of Plunder

Author : Matthew Loar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418422
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Rome, Empire of Plunder written by Matthew Loar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary exploration of Roman cultural appropriation, offering new insights into the processes through which Rome made and remade itself.

Down to Earth Archaeology

Author : William Y. Adams
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803272309
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Down to Earth Archaeology written by William Y. Adams and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor William Y. Adams presents sixteen papers on Nubia, written at various times during his lengthy and productive academic career. Most of those selected had been previously published only in a limited way; encompassing a wide range of topics, Adams wanted to enable them to reach a wider readership than they had originally.

Africa and Byzantium

Author : Andrea Myers Achi
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588397718
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Africa and Byzantium written by Andrea Myers Achi and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire, but less known are the profound artistic contributions of Nubia, Egypt, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had an indelible impact on the medieval Mediterranean world. Bringing together more than 170 masterworks in a range of media and techniques—from mosaic, sculpture, pottery, and metalwork to luxury objects, panel paintings, and religious manuscripts—Africa and Byzantium recounts Africa’s centrality in transcontinental networks of trade and cultural exchange. With incisive scholarship and new photography of works rarely or never before seen in public, this long-overdue publication sheds new light on the staggering artistic achievements of late antique Africa. It reconsiders northern and eastern Africa’s contributions to the development of the premodern world and offers a more complete history of the region as a vibrant, multiethnic society of diverse languages and faiths that played a crucial role in the artistic, economic, and cultural life of Byzantium and beyond.

Syene VI

Author : Gregory Williams
Publisher : PeWe-Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3689850118
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Syene VI written by Gregory Williams and published by PeWe-Verlag. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 9th century CE, the city of Aswan, Egypt was a prosperous provincial capital on the pilgrimage route to Mecca and Medina via the Red Sea, as well as trade routes connecting the Nile River to the Wadi al-Allaqi mines, Egypt's main source of gold. The city was identified by medieval writers and geographers as situated at the frontier between Muslim Egypt and Christian Nubia. Salvage excavations under the auspices of the Swiss-Egyptian mission in Syene/Old Aswan have revealed considerable evidence of medieval Islamic activity. Evidence from 9th - 10th century ceramic assemblages uncovered during these investigations is compared and contrasted with a variety of historical sources concerning this same period. The evidence suggests that a particular style of common, utilitarian ceramics produced in the Aswan region was utilized frequently and carried or exported extensively throughout Upper Egypt, the Eastern Desert, and Lower Nubia during the 9th-10th centuries and beyond. The assemblages demonstrate a considerable distinction with the corpus of common ceramics of Fustat and Lower Egypt in the early Islamic period, as well as those of contemporary Upper Nubia and sites further south along the Nile into Northeastern Africa. Aswan and the First Cataract region came to function as a central node of a network marked by a regional material culture that transcended traditional political or religious divisions between Egypt and Nubia or Muslim and Christian. The evidence from Aswan provides an alternative interpretation of medieval landscapes and regionalism, one which prioritizes the material culture of daily life over the presumed divisions of political history or religious boundaries.

Egypt and Africa

Author : W. V. Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Egypt and Africa written by W. V. Davies and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Demotic Graffiti from the Temple of Isis on Philae Island

Author : Eugene Cruz-Uribe
Publisher : Lockwood Press
ISBN 13 : 1937040488
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Demotic Graffiti from the Temple of Isis on Philae Island written by Eugene Cruz-Uribe and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume publishes 534 new Demotic graffiti recorded at the temple of Isis on Philae Island, presented with drawings and photographs. New editions of 101 of the graffiti that were published by F. Griffith in his Catalogue of the Demotic Papyri in the Dodecaschoenus (1937) are published here. These reedited texts were mainly chosen because new drawings provided significant new readings from those made by Griffith, or they helped elucidate the scope and meaning of some of the new graffiti by placement. The volume also includes an essay interpreting the role of the graffiti in understanding the political and religious activities at Philae temple during the last centuries of worship of the goddess Isis, mainly by Nubian priests and pilgrims.

African Kingdoms

Author : Saheed Aderinto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610695801
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book African Kingdoms written by Saheed Aderinto and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history-rich volume details the sociopolitical, economic, and artistic aspects of African kingdoms from the earliest times to the second half of the 19th century. Africa has a long and fascinating history and is a place of growing importance in the world history curriculum. This detailed encyclopedia covers the history of African kingdoms from antiquity through the mid-19th century, tracing the dynasties' ties to modern globalization and influences on world culture before, during, and after the demise of the slave trade. Along with an exploration of African heritage, this reference is rich with firsthand accounts of Africa through the oral traditions of its people and the written journals of European explorers, missionaries, and travelers who visited Africa from the 15th century and onward. Alphabetically arranged entries cover a particular kingdom and feature information on the economic, cultural, religious, political, social, and environmental history of the regime. The content references popular culture, movies, and art that present contemporary reenactments of kingdoms, emphasizing the importance of history in shaping modern ideas. Other features include primary source documents, a selected bibliography of print and electronic resources, and dozens of sidebars containing key facts and interesting trivia.

Unending Variety

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004680527
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Unending Variety written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Festschrift offered by friends and colleagues to papyrologist and ancient historian Peter van Minnen. The volume contains the edition or re-edition of 52 papyri and ostraca, dating from between the third century BCE and the eighth century CE. Their subjects vary from Demosthenes to the delivery of camels in early Islamic Egypt, and their provenances stretch from the Eastern to the Western Desert, and from the Egyptian Nile valley to Qasr Ibrim in northern Nubia. All texts are published with transcription, translation, commentary and colour photographs. In addition, there are five studies, reflecting the honorand’s wide-ranging interests.

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia

Author : Geoff Emberling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197521835
Total Pages : 1217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia written by Geoff Emberling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 1217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultures of Nubia built the earliest cities, states, and empires of inner Africa, but they remain relatively poorly known outside their modern descendants and the community of archaeologists, historians, and art historians researching them. The earliest archaeological work in Nubia was motivated by the region's role as neighbor, trade partner, and enemy of ancient Egypt. Increasingly, however, ancient Nile-based Nubian cultures are recognized in their own right as the earliest complex societies in inner Africa. As agro-pastoral cultures, Nubian settlement, economy, political organization, and religious ideologies were often organized differently from those of the urban, bureaucratic, and predominantly agricultural states of Egypt and the ancient Near East. Nubian societies are thus of great interest in comparative study, and are also recognized for their broader impact on the histories of the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia brings together chapters by an international group of scholars on a wide variety of topics that relate to the history and archaeology of the region. After important introductory chapters on the history of research in Nubia and on its climate and physical environment, the largest part of the volume focuses on the sequence of cultures that lead almost to the present day. Several cross-cutting themes are woven through these chapters, including essays on desert cultures and on Nubians in Egypt. Eleven final chapters synthesize subjects across all historical phases, including gender and the body, economy and trade, landscape archaeology, iron working, and stone quarrying.

African Civilizations

Author : Graham Connah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521596909
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book African Civilizations written by Graham Connah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of African Civilizations, first published in 2001, re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in tropical Africa.

Food and Drink in Egypt and Sudan

Author : Mennat-Allah El Dorry
Publisher : IFAO
ISBN 13 : 272471024X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Food and Drink in Egypt and Sudan written by Mennat-Allah El Dorry and published by IFAO. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of historic foodways is as multifaceted and varied as food itself. The changes we see in food habits and choices over history reveal evolving social and political climates and help us envision our ancestors' everyday lives and imagined afterlives. Food certainly played a role in funerary rites; it was offered to the dead, of course, but also shared at the grave among the living family members, symbolically bridging between this world and the next. Choosing the food was embedded in a series of traditions and norms; how it relates to what was actually eaten in associated settlements enables an understanding of its meaning. Feasts, whether for the dead or the living, were laden with political and social meaning. Fasting, although requiring abstention from certain foods, also involves the management-from sourcing and storing to cooking and eating-of the permitted foods, a key concern in contexts such as monasteries where fasting occurred. This collective work demonstrates the diversity of possible approaches to food. It presents the current state of research on the foodways of Egypt and Sudan and highlights the importance of further interdisciplinary collaboration for a "big picture" approach. It brings together 16 articles covering archaeology (in the broadest sense), theory, anthropology, language, ethnography, and architecture to illustrate food traditions and history in Egypt and Sudan from as early as the 4th millennium BC to the 20th century.

The Sahara

Author : Jeremy Keenan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317970012
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Sahara written by Jeremy Keenan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the Sahara holistically from the earliest (prehistoric) times through the ‘historical’ period to the present and with political direction into the future. The contributions cover palaeoclimatology, history, archaeology (cultural heritage), social anthropology, sociology, politics and international affairs. Structured chronologically, the volume can almost be read as a narrative of the Sahara from the earliest times to the present, i.e. from the past climates of the Sahara in prehistoric times to the current ‘war on terror’ and its implications for the peoples of the Sahara. Importantly, the collection shows how the region must be approached ‘holistically’, highlighting the importance of each of these subject areas (palaeo-climates, history, politics, etc.) in relation to each other. Indeed, the first contribution is a remarkable (and unique) paper, bringing together the work of some 8-9 internationally recognised scientists to tell the story and show the relevance to the present day of the Sahara’s past climates etc. Nearly all the contributions stand in their own right at the cutting edge of research in their respective fields (e.g. archaeology, history, politics, etc.). This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of North African Studies.

Living the End of Antiquity

Author : Sabine R. Huebner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311068358X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Living the End of Antiquity written by Sabine R. Huebner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the transition period stretching from the reign of Justinian I to the end of the 8th century, focusing on the experience of individuals who lived through the last decades of Byzantine rule in Egypt before the arrival of the new Arab rulers. The contributions drawing from the wealth of sources we have for Egypt, explore phenomena of stability and disruption during the transition from the classical to the postclassical world.

Medieval Nubia

Author : Giovanni Ruffini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019989163X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Nubia written by Giovanni Ruffini and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of the social and economic history of medieval Nubia, this book uses unpublished indigenous Old Nubian documentary sources to reveal a complex society that blended Greco-Roman legal traditions with African festive practices.