Day-to-day activities are important in the development of social identities, the establishment
of social standing, and the communal understanding of societal rules. This perspective is …

The establishment of Kushite rule over Egypt during the eighth and seventh centuries BC
resulted in a state of extraordinary geographic dimensions and ecological diversity …

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 …

Amara West is generally recognised as the administrative centre of Kush, or Upper Nubia,
from the reign of Seti I until the collapse of pharaonic control of the area (c. 1294–1069 BC) …

The early New Kingdom saw rapid expansion of the Egyptian presence in Nubia with the
reoccupation of Middle Kingdom fortresses in Lower Nubia (between the First Cataract and …

The reconquest of Lower Nubia in the 16th century BC prompted the reoccupation, and
reformulation, of older towns which had been continuously occupied through a period of …

This thesis presents an investigation of the paints used in domestic and funerary contexts in
a pharaonic town in Nubia. Amara West was the seat of the Deputy of Kush, founded during …

As part of a wider investigation of Egyptian inscriptions in the Northern Sudan, the British
Museum has begun a project of epigraphic survey at Tombos near the Third Cataract, 1 well …

By employing a bioarchaeological perspective, this dissertation addresses how quotidian
acts are altered during and as a consequence of sociopolitical change. Specifically …

Egyptological and more popular perceptions of Nubia and the Kushite dynasty have framed
Kush as a periphery to civilized Egypt. But to what extent was Nubia a" backwater" to" effete …