The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt: From the Predynastic period to the end of the Middle Kingdom, by Nadine Moeller , 2016. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; ISBN 978-1-107-07975-5; hardback £74.99; 430 pp., 188 b/w illustrations, 6 maps, 3 tables

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-352
Author(s):  
Laurel Bestock
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Cambridge University

A World Upturned

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Enmarch
Keyword(s):  
Reception History ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Human Motivation ◽  
The Core ◽  
Divine Justice ◽  
Egyptian Culture ◽  
Egyptian Literature ◽  
Literary Composition

The Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All is one of the major works from the golden age of Egyptian literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1980–1630 bc). The poem provides one of the most searching explorations of human motivation and divine justice to survive from ancient Egypt, and its stark pessimism questions many of the core ideologies that underpinned the Egyptian state and monarchy. It begins with a series of laments portraying an Egypt overwhelmed by chaos and destruction, and develops into an examination of why these disasters should happen, and who bears responsibility for them: the gods, the king, or humanity. This volume provides the first full literary analysis of this poem for a century. It provides a detailed study of questions such as: its date of composition; its historicity; the identity of its protagonists and setting; its reception history within Egyptian culture; and whether it really is a unified literary composition, or a redacted collection of texts of heterogenous origin.

Work Organization in the Middle Kingdom, Ancient Egypt

Organization ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Ezzamel
Keyword(s):  
Work Organization ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Middle Kingdom

scholarly journals Molecular study on human tuberculosis in three geographically distinct and time delineated populations from ancient Egypt

2003 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. ZINK ◽  
W. GRABNER ◽  
U. REISCHL ◽  
H. WOLF ◽  
A. G. NERLICH
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Study ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Tuberculous Spondylitis ◽  
Tissue Samples ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Early Dynastic ◽  
Systemic Spread ◽  
Different Populations

We describe the molecular identification of human tuberculosis (TB) from vertebral bone tissue samples from three different populations of ancient Egypt. The specimens were obtained from the predynastic to early dynastic necropolis of Abydos (7 individuals, c. 3500–2650 B.C.), from a Middle Kingdom to Second Intermediate Period tomb of the necropolis of Thebes-West (37, c. 2100–1550 B.C.) and from five further Theban tombs used in the New Kingdom and the Late Period (39, c. 1450–500 B.C.). A total of 18 cases tested positive for the presence of ancient DNA (aDNA) of the M. tuberculosis complex. Out of the 9 cases with typical macromorphological signs of tuberculous spondylitis, 6 were positive for mycobacterial aDNA (66·7%). Of 24 cases with non-specific pathological alterations, 5 provided a positive result (20·8%). In 50 cases of normally appearing vertebral bones 7 tested positive (14·0%). There were only minor differences in the frequencies between the three populations. These data strongly support the notion that tuberculosis was present and prevalent in ancient Egypt since very early periods of this civilization. The unexpectedly high rate of mycobacterial aDNA in normal bone samples is presumably due to a pre- to perimortal systemic spread of the bacteria and indicates a generalized infection by M. tuberculosis.

ACCOUNTING AND REDISTRIBUTION: THE PALACE AND MORTUARY CULT IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM, ANCIENT EGYPT

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Ezzamel
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Royal Family ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regular Flow ◽  
Level Of Analysis

This paper examines detailed historical material drawn from primary sources to explore the role of accounting practices in the functioning of several key stages of the redistributive economy of the Middle Kingdom, ancient Egypt. First, the paper attends to the role of accounting in securing a regular flow of commodities to the state, in the form of taxation in kind. The historical material suggests clearly that accounting practices played a crucial role in levying and collecting precise tax liabilities, and in monitoring the storing of commodities in state granaries and storehouses. The second level of analysis is concerned with the role of accounting in coordinating the outflow of commodities to consumption units focusing on two examples. The first relates to the role of accounting in the distribution of food provisions to members of the Royal family and palace dependents while on a journey; the second examines the role of accounting in the writing and execution of a series of contracts to promote the mortuary cult of a dead individual. In both cases, the paper argues that the accounting practices were linked strongly to the social, political and economic contexts within which these accounting practices functioned.

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