The Dakhleh Oasis Project is a long-term holistic investigation of the evolution of human populat...

Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egy...

An indispensable guide for students and teachers to using ancient documents in their work, which ...

This book presents in translation 175 of the most revealing documents that have survived on stone...

This archaeological report provides a comprehensive study of the excavations carried out at Amhei...

A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.This work employs a subset of pr...

Scattered through the vast expanse of stone and sand that makes up Egypt's Western Desert are sev...

This volume presents 455 inscribed pottery fragments, or ostraka,found during NYU's excavations a...

The thousand years from Alexander to the Arab conquest in ad 641 are rich in archaeological inter...

Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world—that is, informal writing not intended for a ...