This article establishes unprecedented connections between the Ancient Egyptian term GAS, usually translated as ‘rush’ and ‘reed’ with various cognates in different Indian languages qualifying the Kans grass (Saccharum spontaneum). Hence confirming the link made by Loret in 1904 between GAS and that very species, as well as presenting a clear case of a late…
Leather And Skin as Markers of Early Exchanges Between Western Asia and Egypt?
Leather is a durable and flexible material created by the tanning of animal rawhide and skin, the more often cattle hide. Rawhides and tanned hides are hence two separate commodities which may be traded under the different denominations of ‘leather’, ‘skin’ or ‘hide’. The latter is important as these different terms, the former referring to…
Armenian Egyptology Center Research Program 2013-14
Research report.
Vartavan and Armenian Egyptology Centre (AEC) Research Program 2012-2013
Labeling Ancient Egyptian Complex-Media Varnishes as “Imperial”
The appearance—and subsequent disappearance—of complex-media varnishes in ancient Egypt coincides chronologically with the rise and fall of Egypt’s imperial ambitions in Asia, and analysis of the constituent oleoresins suggests this is no coincidence. It is therefore suggested that these varnishes be labeled as “imperial,” a useful contribution not only to the history of ancient Egyptian power and…