Did the Ancient Egyptians of the Old, Middle and New Kingdom ever reach Malta and the Central Mediterranean?
A number of ancient Egyptian artefacts have reached the Maltese islands over the centuries. The Phoenicians seem to have been the main importers of these artefacts in antiquity, and yet some archaeological specimens reached the islands before their time.
Forerunners of the Hattusili-Ramesses treaty
The Hattusili-Ramesses treaty is known from two main sources. These are texts in Egyptian hieroglyphs preserved on the walls of the temple of Amun at Karnak and of the Ramesseum, and of some fragmentary cuneiform tablets in Akkadian, discovered at the Hittite capital of Hattusa, the modern site of Boghazk
Dedications in clay: terracotta figurines in early Iron Age Greece (c. 1100-700 BCE)
This dissertation explores early Greek religion and society through a contextual analysis of the ritual use of terracotta votive figurines in the Early Iron Age, c. 1100-700 BCE.
The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 BC
The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 BC Ian Morris Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: December (2005) Abstract Greece between 1500…
The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 BC
Greece between 1500 and 500 BC is one of the best known examples of the phenomenon of the regeneration of complex society after a collapse. I review 10 core dimensions of this process (urbanism, tax and rent, monuments, elite power, information- recording systems, trade, crafts, military power, scale, and standards of living), and suggest that punctuated equilibrium models accommodate the data better than gradualist interpretations.
The maritime city in the Graeco-Roman perception. Carthage and Alexandria: two emblematic examples
In Ancient History, from the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages, the sea, especially the Mediterranean, was the main instrument of communication between civilizations. But it was also the place of their conflicting interactions.