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Steps from history. The Happisburgh footprints and their connections with the past
Human footprints were discovered at Happisburgh, UK, in 2013. This paper describes their discovery and the difficulties of recording such enigmatic remains in a coastal environment.Ashton, Nick
Happisburgh; human footprints; Lower Paleolithic; Early Pleistocene; Britain; Europe
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The fabric of banknotes – textiles in and on paper money
At various times in history and across the world, textiles have been used in payments and exchange, for example, in Tang Dynasty China when coins and textiles were the main forms of money, and in social and cultural conventions, such as dowries. Banknotes originate in the ‘flying money’ (feiqian) of...Wang, Helen
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Prestige goods and social complexity at Episkopi-Bamboula
An account of the finds and wider social context of the site of Episkopi-Bamboula in the Kouris Vallery, CyprusKiely, Thomas
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Conservation of an Amun Temple in the Sudan
An account of the conservation at the temple of Amun at Dangeil, Sudan, based on a paper given at the 12th International Conference for Nubian Studies held at the British Museum, London, from 1st-6th August 2010.Sweek, Tracey ; Anderson, Julie ; Ahmed, Salah Mohammed ; Tanimoto, Satoko
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Early Kushite royal statues at Dangeil, Sudan
An essay about the early Kushite royal statues at Dangeil, Sudan based on a paper presented at the 12th International Conference for Nubian Studies held at the British Museum, London, from 1st-6th August 2010.Anderson, Julie ; Ahmed, Salah Mohammed
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Seal impressions from Tell Iswid
Regulski, Ilona
Sealing, Egypt, and Archaeology
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Five years of excavations at Dangeil, Sudan: a new Amun temple of the Late Kushite period
Insight into the newly discovered temple of Amun discovered at Dangeil, Sudan, in a collection of 150 essays presented at the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, organized at the University of the Aegean (Rhodes), 22-29 May 2008.Anderson, Julie ; Ahmed , Salah Mohammed
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Recent fieldwork at Dangeil, Nile State in the Amun temple complex
An overview of the recent fieldwork at Dangeil, including the discovery of the Amun temple complex, in a collection of papers presented at the 11th International Congress for Meroitic Studies in Vienna, 2008.Anderson, Julie ; Ahmed, Salah Mohammed ; Suliman , Mahmoud
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Naukratis, “Mistress of ships” in context
This volume in which this chapter appears presents 16 papers that explore aspects of the economic and religious life of the northwestern Nile Delta in the first millennium BC. The papers concentrate on presenting new research on a range of material culture—ceramics, coins, weights, statuettes, statues, royal decrees and abandoned...Thomas, Ross
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Egyptian-Greek exchange in the Late Period: the view from Nokradj-Naukratis
This volume in which this chapter appears presents 16 papers that explore aspects of the economic and religious life of the northwestern Nile Delta in the first millennium BC. The papers concentrate on presenting new research on a range of material culture—ceramics, coins, weights, statuettes, statues, royal decrees and abandoned...Villing, Alexandra
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Cult and trade. A reflexion on Egyptian metal offerings from Naucratis
This volume in which this chapter appears presents 16 papers that explore aspects of the economic and religious life of the northwestern Nile Delta in the first millennium BC. The papers concentrate on presenting new research on a range of material culture—ceramics, coins, weights, statuettes, statues, royal decrees and abandoned...Masson, Aurélia
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Egypt and Greece: early encounters
A chapter on early encounters between Egypt and Greece in the catalogue that accompanied the 2016 British Museum exhibition, Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost WorldsMasson-Berghoff, Aurélia ; Villing, Alexandra
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The Growing Pains of an Indic Epigraphic Corpus
As the papers in this volume testify, digital scholarly editing is a vibrant practice. Scholarly editing has a long-standing tradition in the humanities. It is of crucial importance within disciplines such as literary studies, philology, history, philosophy, library and information science, and bibliography. In fact, digital scholarly editing represents one...Balogh, Dániel
textual scholarship; scholarly editing; software; digital humanities
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Greece and Egypt: reconsidering early contact and exchange
Scholarship has long recognized the vital significance of cross-cultural interaction to the development of the Mediterranean world of the early first millennium BC. Relations between Greece and Egypt, however, are often little considered in this context. Recent archaeological discoveries and the critical restudy of earlier fieldwork enable a fresh perspective...Villing, Alexandra