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 1^st intermediate period.

• The 2nd intermediate period and the new Kingdom.

• The third intermediate period and the Late period.

• Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.

• Nicola Grimal, A History of ancient Egypt, Blackwell,

• A. Bowman, Egypt after the Pharaons (332b.C.-642 AD), pp. 20-280.

• Salima Ikram, Ancient Egypt: An Introduction, pp. 1-23.

Mohamed Kenawi, A Commercial Nursery near Abu Hummus, Egypt, and the Reuse of Amphoras in the Roman Plant Trade” with E. Macaulay-Lewis and J. McKenzie, Journal of Roman Archaeology 25, 195-225.