EGYPTOLOGY

The course aims at presenting a survey of the Egyptian history, and archaeology, with the connected problems of religion and art, of ancient Egypt from the Pharaonic period to the Roman period and at illustring the birth of Egyptology as a science and the transformation from traditional Egyptology into Egyptian Archaeology The course will focus moreover on the topography of the country and the development of its civilization from the earliest steps until the Late Roman Period.

The course will include the following modules:

• Introduction to Egyptology as a field of study and research
• Egyptology and the birth of ancient Egyptian state and Egyptian culture.
• The Early and the Middle Kingdom with the 1st intermediate period.
• The 2nd intermediate period and the new Kingdom.
• The third intermediate period and the Late period
• Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.

• Nicola Grimal, Storia dell’Antico Egitto
• Bowman, L’Egitto dopo i Faraoni, pp. 20-280.
• G. Holbl: Egitto Romano, storia e cultura religiosa, Vol. 1, pp. 116-175.
• Cestari Irene, Villaggi dell’Egitto Antico
• J. Baines - J. Malek, Atlante dell’Antico Egitto, 20-200.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.