This dissertation focuses on a unique corpus of cuneiform tablets from southern Babylonia written during the Seleucid period (roughly 3rd- 2nd c. BCE) that preserve …
Despite the vast amount of scholarship dedicated to the study of tomb chapel decoration in the New Kingdom Theban necropolis, the restricted use of burial …
Abstract of “Egyptian and Minoan Relations During the Eighteenth Dynasty/Late Bronze Age” by Amanda L. Davis, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2016 Past scholars have been …
This dissertation investigates the origins of apotheosis—the process through which one was divinized—in ancient Egypt. Because apotheosis seems to have originally occurred posthumously, this study …
Patterns of Ancient Egyptian Child Deities, by Sung Hwan Yoo, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2012. In the Egyptian pantheon there are deities who appear in …
The royal pyramid tombs of Sudan are striking, in a land over 1100 miles upstream of their famous forbears at Giza, for their overwhelmingly Egyptian …
Modern scholars of the ancient Near East are only now beginning to appreciate the complex role commentaries played in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). This dissertation …
This dissertation investigates the treatment of eclipses in early Chinese astronomy and astrology. It discusses the practice of eclipse divination, mathematical astronomy theories, and the …