![]() In “Microcosm,” three distinct abstract artists have come together to explore the depths of the human mind and consciousness through their bold and dynamic works.īenjie Cabangis is a celebrated abstractionist who has mastered the art of experimenting with form and space. Artists, through the command of their craft, have the unique ability to bring what they see in their mind’s eye onto the physical canvas, creating microcosms, or little worlds, of the greater human consciousness. The human mind has been both glorified and probed for its vastness, complexity, and ingenuity. – Leonard Peikoff, Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand Then he embodies them in a sensory-perceptual concrete… The result is a universe in microcosm.” New Kingdom towns in Upper Nubia: Sai, Soleb and Amara West in prosopographical perspective“Guided by his own metaphysical value-judgements (explicit or otherwise), an artist selects, out of the bewildering chaos of human experience, those aspects he regards as indicative of the nature of the universe. Urbanism in Nubia and the New Kingdom Temple Towns The Fortified Settlement at Tombos and Egyptian Colonial Strategy in New Kingdom Nubia Marlies Wohlschlager and Andrea Stadlmayr Life History of Khnummose and Selected Anthropological Finds from Tomb 26 Pots & People: Ceramics from Sai Island and Elephantineįrom Macro Wares to Micro Fabrics and INAA Compositional Groups: The pottery corpus of the New Kingdom town on Sai Island (Northern Sudan) The Fortifications of the Pharaonic Town on Sai Island: A reinvestigation Image Based Modelling and Kite Aerial Photography on Sai Island The Many Ethnicities in Avaris: Evidence from the northern borderland of EgyptĮgyptians and Nubians in the Early New Kingdom and the Kushite BackgroundĪcrossBorders: Five seasons of work in the Pharaonic town, Sai Island Kerma and Dokki Gel: Evidences of impressive changes in the urban architecture at the beginning of the New Kingdom in Nubia The Development of Two Early Urban Centres in Upper Egypt During the 3rd Millennium BC: The examples of Edfu and DendaraĪncient Gold Mining Settlements in the Eastern Deserts of Egypt and Nubia ![]() Individual Households and Cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia: A short summary of the state-of-the-art It is the result of a conference on the same subject held in 2017 as the closing event of the European Research Council funded project AcrossBorders at Munich. The volume is intended for all specialists at settlements sites in Northeast Africa, for students of Egyptology and Nubian Studies, but it will be of interest to anyone working in the field of settlement archaeology. This new bottom-up approach applied by current fieldwork projects is demonstrated in the book. Settlement archaeology in Egypt and Nubia has recently moved away from a strong textual approach and generalised studies to a more site-specific approach and household studies. The rich potential of well-preserved but still not completely explored sites in modern Sudan, especially as direct comparison for already excavated sites located in Egypt, is in particular emphasised in the book. Architectural studies as well as analyses of material culture and the new application of microarchaeology, here especially of micromorphology and archaeometric applications, are presented as case studies from sites primarily dating to the New Kingdom (Second Millennium BC). This combination of research questions on the micro-level with the macro-level provides new information about cities and households in Ancient Egypt and Nubia and makes the book unique. As reflected in the title “From Microcosm to Macrocosm: Individual households and cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia”, both a micro-approach introducing microhistories of individual sites according to recent archaeological fieldwork incorporating interdisciplinary methods as well as general patterns and regional developments in Northeast Africa are discussed.
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