This course will introduce students to the archaeology of Ancient Egypt from the period of its first political organization until Alexander the Great’s conquer, in the larger framework of the contemporary Nubian, eastern Mediterranean regions and the Middle East. The course will discuss problems of archaeological methodology and interpretation, focussing on selected case-studies related to settlements, temples and funerary archaeology. Students will learn to critically analyse archaeological documentation, architecture and monuments, identify diagnostic elements of material culture and contextualize archaeological data in the proper chronological, historical-political, economic and religious context.
