Pharaoh's Land and Beyond Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors

by Creasman, Pearce Paul; Wilkinson, Richard H.

• ISBN13: 9780197601846
• ISBN10: 0197601847
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-12-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Pearce Paul Creasman is Associate Professor & Curator at the University of Arizona, author or co-author of fifty articles, and editor of Archaeological Research in the Valley of the Kings and Ancient Thebes.

Richard H. Wilkinson is Regents' Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, author or editor of eleven books, including The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Plates

Introduction
Pearce Paul Creasman and Richard H. Wilkinson

SECTION I: Pathways
Chapter 1 Finding the Beyond: Exploration
Thomas Schneider
Chapter 2 Paths in the Deep: Maritime Connections
Pearce Paul Creasman and Noreen Doyle
Chapter 3 Pathways to Distant Kingdoms: Land Connections
Gregory Mumford

SECTION II: People
Chapter 4 Children of Other Gods: Social Interactions
Bettina Bader
Chapter 5 Between Brothers: Diplomatic Interactions
Richard H. Wilkinson and Noreen Doyle
Chapter 6 The Armies of Re
Anthony Spalinger

SECTION III: Objects
Chapter 7 The Long Arm of Merchantry: Trade Interactions
Samuel Mark
Chapter 8 Artisans and Their Products: Interaction in Art and Architecture
Stuart Tyson Smith
Chapter 9 Traded, Copied, and Kept: The Ubiquitous Appeal of Scarabs
Vanessa Boschloos

SECTION IV: Ideas
Chapter 10 Technology in Transit: The Borrowing of Ideas in Science and Craftwork
Ian Shaw
Chapter 11 The Flow of Words: Interaction in Writing and Literature during the Bronze Age
Part I: Writing Systems: Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs in the Bronze Age: Script Contact and the Creation of New Scripts
Orly Goldwasser
Part II: Literature: Egyptian and Levantine Belles-Lettres-Links and Influences during the Bronze Age
Noga Ayali-Darshan
Chapter 12 All Gods Are Our Gods: Religious Interaction
Part I: "From Bes to Baal": Religious Interconnections between Egypt and the East
Izak Cornelius
Part II: Egypt and Nubia
Kathryn Howley
Part III: Religious Interaction between Egypt and the Aegean in the 2nd Millennium BCE
Nanno Marinatos

SECTION V: Events
Chapter 13 Violence in Earth, Water and Sky: Geological Hazards
James A. Harrell
Chapter 14 The Fickle Nile: Effects of Droughts and Floods
Judith Bunbury
Chapter 15 Illness from Afar: Epidemics and Their Aftermath
Rosalie David

References and Further Reading
Index