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NUBIA AS A PLACE OF REFUGE: NILE VALLEY RESISTANCE AGAINST FOREIGN INVASION

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

NUBIA AS A PLACE OF REFUGE: NILE VALLEY RESISTANCE AGAINST FOREIGN INVASION

The “Feast of Entry”: Gold in Nubian Practice and Power at Philae

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This paper will explore the ritual power and significance of gold for Nubian cultic practitioners at the ancient Egyptian temple of Philae, located at the traditional border between Egypt and Nubia. Philae was a place of cultural, religious, economic, and military interaction between Egyptian and Nubian populations, both of whom engaged in religious practices at the temple, often jointly. Though co-religionists, Nubian practice diverged in specific ways from that of Egyptian priests and practitioners. Long associated with gold, Nubia served as the primary source of this precious metal for ancient Egypt. This paper will explore the presentation of gold by Nubians at the temple of Philae as recorded in hieroglyphic texts that decorate the temple walls and in the words of Nubian visitors who inscribed their prayer texts on the temple walls primarily in the Egyptian language (Demotic), but also in the Meroitic language and in Greek. Additionally, I will describe the unique symbolism...

Excavations of the New Kingdom Fortress in Jaffa, 2011–2014: Traces of Resistance to Egyptian Rule in Canaan

Thu, 2 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Excavations of the New Kingdom Fortress in Jaffa, 2011–2014: Traces of Resistance to Egyptian Rule in Canaan

The Merchant of Art An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Merchant of Art An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance

HELLENISTIC ARCHITECTURE IN JAFFA: THE 2009 EXCAVATIONS OF THE JAFFA CULTURAL HERITAGE PROJECT IN THE VISITOR'S CENTRE

Tue, 9 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In 2009 the Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project undertook a pilot-project excavation within the soon-to-be-renovated visitor s centre in Qedumim Square. These excavations were intended to clarify stratigraphic questions within area C of Jacob Kaplan s excavations (1961, 1965) and to lay the groundworkforfuture excavations by the project which was founded in 2007 as a partnership between UCLA and the Israel Antiquities Authority. Along with achieving these goals, the excavations exposed one of the best preserved examples of Hellenistic architecture in the southern Levant and confirmed the employment of a Hippodamian-style town plan fom as early as the late Persian period. © Palestine Exploration Fund 2014.

A multi-proxy shallow marine record for Mid-to-Late Holocene climate variability, Thera eruptions and cultural change in the Eastern Mediterranean

Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

A multi-proxy shallow marine record for Mid-to-Late Holocene climate variability, Thera eruptions and cultural change in the Eastern Mediterranean

Cultural heritage in context: the temples of Nubia, digital technologies and the future of conservation

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Cultural heritage in context: the temples of Nubia, digital technologies and the future of conservation

The Fourth-Century AD Expansion of the Graeco-Roman Settlement of Karanis (Kom Aushim) in the Northern Fayum*

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Graeco-Roman town of Karanis, founded during the Ptolemaic Period in the north-eastern Fayum in the third century bc and long thought to have been abandoned in the third century ad actually saw a substantial expansion during the fourth century AD. With the creation of an 3 extension towards the west and the expansion of the eastern part, the town grew in both directions. We argue that this expansion may be related to a sudden rise of the water level in Lake Moeris (Lake Qarun), perhaps linked to a catastrophic dam breach in the eastern part of the Fayum, and the subsequent relocation of the inhabitants of the low-lying settlements north and east of the lake.

Kom W and X Basin: Erosion, Deposition, and the Potential for Village Occupation

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Kom W and X Basin: Erosion, Deposition, and the Potential for Village Occupation

Mifsas Baḥri: a Late Aksumite frontier community in the mountains of southern Tigray: survey, excavation and analysis, 2013–16

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Mifsas Baḥri: a Late Aksumite frontier community in the mountains of southern Tigray: survey, excavation and analysis, 2013–16

Basket use, raw materials and arguments on early and Middle Holocene mobility in the Fayum, Egypt

Tue, 5 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Basket use, raw materials and arguments on early and Middle Holocene mobility in the Fayum, Egypt

Early- and middle-Holocene wood exploitation in the Fayum basin, Egypt

Wed, 4 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The early and middle Holocene of North Africa was a time of dramatic climatic and social change, including rapid shifts in vegetation communities and the introduction of domesticated plants and animals. Recent research from the Fayum basin of Egypt, which holds archaeological evidence for early use of domesticates, aims to place inhabitants of that region within their contemporary environmental setting. We present here results of wood charcoal analysis from three early- and middle-Holocene deposits on the north shore of the Fayum and reconstruct both contemporary woodland ecology and patterns of anthropogenic wood use. In total, three woodland communities likely existed in the area, but inhabitants of this region made heavy use of only the local lakeshore woodland, emphasizing tamarisk ( Tamarix sp.) for fuel. While seasonally watered wadi woodlands were not harvested for fuel, more arid locations on the landscape were, evidencing regional mobility between ecological zones. Results...

Cultural heritage in context: the temples of Nubia, digital technologies and the future of conservation

Thu, 8 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

President's Research Catalyst Awards, Grant ID# CA-16-376911, Preserving at-Risk Cultural Heritage.

3-D Digital Preservation of At-Risk Global Cultural Heritage

Wed, 16 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Recent current events have dramatically highlighted the vulnerability of the world's material cultural heritage. The 3-D Digital Preservation of At-Risk Global Cultural Heritage project, led by Thomas Levy at UC San Diego, catalyzes a collaborative research effort by four University of California campuses (San Diego, Berkeley, Los Angeles and Merced) to use cyberarchaeology and computer graphics for cultural heritage to document and safeguard virtually some of the most at-risk heritage objects and places. Faculty and students involved in this project are conducting path-breaking archaeological research - covering more than 10,000 years of culture and architecture - in Cyprus, Greece, Egypt, Ethiopia, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Turkey, and the United States. This project uses the 3-D archaeological data collected in numerous at-risk heritage places to study, forecast, and model the effects of human conflict, climate change, natural disasters and technological and cultural changes...

New Archaeozoological Data from the Fayum “Neolithic” with a Critical Assessment of the Evidence for Early Stock Keeping in Egypt

Tue, 21 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Faunal evidence from the Fayum Neolithic is often cited in the framework of early stock keeping in Egypt. However, the data suffer from a number of problems. In the present paper, large faunal datasets from new excavations at Kom K and Kom W (4850-4250 BC) are presented. They clearly show that, despite the presence of domesticates, fish predominate in the animal bone assemblages. In this sense, there is continuity with the earlier Holocene occupation from the Fayum, starting ca. 7350 BC. Domesticated plants and animals appear first from approximately 5400 BC. The earliest possible evidence for domesticates in Egypt are the very controversial domesticated cattle from the 9th/8th millennium BC in the Nabta Playa-Bir Kiseiba area. The earliest domesticates found elsewhere in Egypt date to the 6th millennium BC. The numbers of bones are generally extremely low at this point in time and only caprines are present. From the 5th millennium BC, the numbers of sites with domesticates dramatically...

The Effects of Holocene Landscape Changes on the Formation of the Archaeological Record in the Fayum Basin, Egypt

Tue, 21 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The Effects of Holocene Landscape Changes on the Formation of the Archaeological Record in the Fayum Basin, Egypt

Karanis in 3D: Recording, Monitoring, Recontextualizing, and the Representation of Knowledge and Conjecture

Tue, 21 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Karanis in 3D: Recording, Monitoring, Recontextualizing, and the Representation of Knowledge and Conjecture

“Every Slight Movement of the People . . . is Everything”: Sondra Hale and Sudanese Art

Fri, 5 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This essay traces the intertwined topics of collaboration and multisited ethnography in the writings of anthropologist Sondra Hale on Sudanese artists and art. Hale’s trajectories and movements in and out of Sudan traverse parallel, sometimes overlapping tracks with the artists she studied, championed, and curated. Studying Sudan and its artists may have begun in Khartoum during Hale’s first three-year period there from 1961 to 1964; however, this essay analyzes Hale’s subsequent writings based on the places where she encountered artists, residing abroad and in exile, in Cairo, Asmara, Addis Ababa, Oxford, the Hales’ Los Angeles home, as well as in American venues for meetings of the Sudan Studies Association.

Tarshish in the Mountains of Lebanon: Attestations of the Biblical Place Name

Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Tarshish in the Mountains of Lebanon: Attestations of the Biblical Place Name