The first complete translation and commentary on the important tableau and inscription of Queen Katimala/Karimala at Semna. Proper understanding of the paleography, grammar, and content reveals Katimala to have been a Nubian ruler at the time of the Twenty-First to Twenty-Second Dynasties of...
This book was written by Dr. Muhammad Ali Aziz as a result of teaching a course on Mahfouz every other year at Yale for nearly 10 years. There are a few books written on the Sufi aspects on Mahfouz’s works. However, none of them has tackled the issue of Islamic mysticism. Our focus was only to...
Fourteen recorded lectures and accompanying ca. 100 page booklet, surveying the history of ancient Egypt. The lectures and essays present an overview of the loss and recovery of the history of ancient Egypt, and focus on the various processes that produced pharaonic civilization. Lectures focus...
Essays on Islands and Islanders
GEBEL TJAUTI ROCK INSCRIPTIONS & WADI EL-HOL ROCK INSCRIPTIONS
Publication of 90 rock inscriptions from two sites in the desert filling the Qena Bend of the Nile. The texts range in date from the Predynastic through the Coptic Periods, and
include the Scorpion tableau, recording the unification of Upper Egypt at the beginning of the Naqada III Period, and the...
Tutankhamun may have been the boy king, but he had a lot of muscle behind him, as did his father Akhenaten, “the heretic king,” and their successors in the Eighteenth Dynasty. As you’ll discover in Tutankhamun’s Armies, the ancient Egyptian Empire could not and did not endure without...
