This dissertation explores how self-perception and royal ideology shaped and legitimized the ethics of community behavior and hierarchical interaction in the Egyptian Old Kingdom (ca. …
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 …
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 …
This thesis questions and investigates how the mastabas at the case study sites of Dendera and Elkab express elite provincial power in order to understand …
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 …