ἀνθρώποισι πᾶσι μέτεστι γινώσκειν ἑωυτοὺς καὶ σωφρονεῖν.
In this post we present selected parts of the very interesting paper titled “Harbours and Coastal Military Bases in Egypt in the Second Millennium B.C. . Avaris, Peru-nefer, Pi-Ramesse“, by Manfred Bietak, sourced from the impressive collective work titled “The Nile-Natural and Cultural Landscape in Egypt” (2017). Continue reading “Naval bases in 2nd millenium B.C. Egypt”
In this post we present and analyze an excerpt from Plato‘s “Timaeus“. Continue reading “Plato’s “Timaeus”; the ancient Tradition records multiple ‘cataclysmic’ events – The inhabitants of the ‘Old World’ knew of the ‘Americas’”
Egypt under Greek and Roman rule (from c. 332 BC) was a diverse place, its population including Egyptians, Greeks, Jews, Romans, Nubians, Arabs, and others. In this post we attempt a short presentation on how Graeco-Roman Egypt functioned as a diverse multiethnic, multilingual society and of the legal and political frameworks within which this diversity was organised and negotiated. Continue reading “Ethnic identities and women’s position in Graeco-Roman Egypt”
During the reign of the first six kings of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which is the period between the end of the 4th century BCE and the middle of the 2nd century BCE, Egyptian cults spread successfully from Egypt, particularly from Alexandria, to ports in the ancient Mediterranean. These cults were formed almost exclusively around the divine couple of Isis and Sarapis. Continue reading “The spread of Egyptian cults across the early Hellenistic Aegean Sea”
In this post we present and originally analyze Egyptian Mythological narrations, recorded during the first century B.C. by Diodorus Siculus. Continue reading “Mythological narrations from Egypt, recorded by Diodorus Siculus; an analysis”
In this post we present selected parts of the very interesting paper titled “Tooth oxygen isotopes reveal Late Bronze Age origin of Mediterranean fish aquaculture and trade“, by Sisma-Ventura Guy et al. Continue reading “Evidence for Fish Trade between Egypt and Canaan during the Bronze Age (3,500 yBP)”
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