Three terms, Order, Legitimacy and Wealth, delineate a comparative approach to ancient civilizations initially developed by John Baines, Professor of Egyptology

In this volume, the authors highlight the diversity and instability of ancient states and how widely they have varied through time and across space. Archaic Sta

Writing and the Ancient State explores the early development of writing and its relationship to the growth of political structures. The first part of the book f

In the House of Heqanakht: Text and Context in Ancient Egypt gathers Egyptological articles in honor of James P. Allen, Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egypt

This trio of volumes contains essays that explore vital existential, moral, or metaphysical issues surrounding the relationship between the sciences and the wor