Category: Egyptology

Egypt’s Colonial Empire in Nubia

“Nubians, I was hoping to avoid them” (from “The Jewel of the Nile”) Egypt’s ventures south, into Lower Nubia (Wawat) and Upper Nubia (Kush), were colonial, to secure access to resources, both those available through direct mining and quarrying as…

Watering Deir el-Medina

This is the paper I wrote for Archaeology B, describing how the Egyptian New Kingdom workers’ village of Deir el-Medina, the desert home of the men who built the tombs in the Valley of the Kings, was provided with water.…