Because life in ancient Egypt was permeated by religion, the emergence of the Egyptian conceptual universe is a topic of profound consequence for any inquiry…
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One of the early royal names documented by Winkler in the Western Desert has, until now, escaped the attention of Egyptologists. Taking into account current…
A grave on the boulder hill at Nazlet Khater, Upper Egypt, yielded a skeleton of modern man with archaic features. The presence of a bifacial…
The Predynastic of Egypt, spanning an interval from ca. 4000 to 3050 B.C., was an eventful period. After the inception of food production in the…
What is a serekh? The straightforward answer is that it is a way of writing the king’s name. It (usually) consists of three elements: at…
Yellow-skinned Representations of Men in the Old Kingdom (FRONTISPIECE, PLATES I-III) A Realistic Example of the Hieroglyph for ‘/Jw “Old” (Figure r) Inscriptions on Old…
Original German and English translation of the journal article. In the first volume of the Umm el-Qaab series, G. Dreyer has published the earliest known…
As the ancient Egyptians were concerned with death and the dead, so were they concerned with life and the living. As opposite sides of the…
In their 1957 chrestomathy of hieratic ostraca, Cerny and Gardiner included ostracon Gardiner 363 as HO 109, l. The published description of the ostracon is…
Author: William A. Ward Published in: The Biblical Archaeologist, (Dec., 1994), Vol. 57, No. 4 pp. 186-202 Cite: Ward, W. A. (1994). Beetles in stone:…