Summary Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs deals with ancient Egyptian concept
of collective identity, various groups which inhabited the Egyptian Nile Valley and different …

How should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to the twenty-first century be
properly read and interpreted? This important and timely new book is the first concerted …

Egypt, located on the isthmus of Africa, is an ideal region to study historical population
dynamics due to its geographic location and documented interactions with ancient …

This major new work by Professor Anthony D. Smith challenges the notion of nationalism as
a product of modernity. Major new work by a leading historical sociologist Challenges the …

Precolonial African polities have emerged in recent years as fertile ground for the
comparative archaeological study of social complexity and the state. For much of the …

This cutting-edge synthesis of the archaeology of Nubia and Sudan from prehistory to the
nineteenth century AD is the first major work on this area for over three decades. Drawing on …

This new revised edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for
developing social complexity in Africa over the last six thousand years. Unlike the two …

Ancient Israel did not emerge within a vacuum but rather came to exist alongside various
peoples, including Canaanites, Egyptians, and Philistines. Indeed, Israel's very proximity to …

Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth century BCE, is one
of the most intriguing rulers of ancient Egypt. His odd appearance and his preoccupation …

Cancer, one of the world's leading causes of death today, remains almost absent relative to
other pathological conditions, in the archaeological record, giving rise to the conclusion that …