Building on recent criticisms of Romanization, this contribution formulates a systematic
critique of the concept of Egyptianization and suggests a different theoretical approach to …

This Handbook offers a comprehensive survey of ancient state formation in western Eurasia
and North Africa. Eighteen experts introduce readers to a wide variety of systems spanning …

Previous investigations of Egyptian imperialism have focused principally on the policies of
pharaoh and his close advisors to the exclusion of other data. But archaeological evidence …

New Kingdom pharaohs were quick to display their dominance over foreign captives in a
variety of contexts—reliefs on temple walls, statuary, various artifacts, texts, etc.—using …

This volume is intended to fill a gap in the extensive literature on ancient Egypt, by
presenting an authoritative, up-to-date, single-volume work on pharaonic civilization …

Bioarchaeological perspectives of collapse scenarios have contributed to our understanding
of the persistence and regeneration of communities after the fall of states and empires. We …

This article tests a model for the political economy of the Wari Empire (AD 600–1000) of
Peru. This model divides the empire into core and periphery zones. In the core, Wari political …

This paper applies the core-periphery theoretical framework as an attempt to explain the
nature of the Egyptian intervention in Lower Nubia and the subsequent sociopolitical status …

The Medjay were an elusive people whom Ancient Egyptian texts seem to refer to as either
an ethnic or an occupational group. In the early part of their history, they appear to have …

ABSTRACT In 1984 Eliezer Oren identified a series of structures found at 13th and 12th
centuries bce sites of southern Canaan, calling them Egyptian Governors' Residencies. He …