In Ancient Egypt, the coexistence of kinship and State logics of social organization can be seen not only in the context of social practices but also in the divine world, were gods usually appear exerting kinship and ...

Ancient State societies, inluding Ancient Egypt, were mainly organized by two diverse but coexisting logics, related, respectively, to kinship and the State. On the one hand, kinship seems to constitute the basic practice ...

After the First Intermediate Period crisis, the Middle Kingdom Egyptian state incorporates the Eastern Delta and also initiates a strong advance over Lower Nubia. From those regions and the deserts, Egyptians obtained the ...

Warfare has been recognized as an almost universal element in non-State societies all over the world and throughout the ages. Such a feature can be explained in terms of an inherent political structure: the self-identification ...

This paper discusses the genealogical relationship between ancient Israel and its three closest neighbors, the Jordanian peoples of Ammon, Moab and Edom, as it is expressed by the Hebrew Bible. The socio-political and ...

The Lybian Presence in Egypt during the Third Intermediate Period poses a number of questions to the historian of this epoch. An analysis of the Lybian political structures and the participation of Lybians in the exchange ...

Traditional attempts to gain knowledge from the sociopolitical situation in Palestine during the XIVth Century BC, reflected in the El Amarna correspondence, have mainly focused on the role played by Egypt and its ruling ...

On Prestige Goods, Order and Chaos. The Egyptian State and its Peripheries during the Early Dynastic Period (ca. 3000-2700 b.C) Throughout the Early Dynastic Period, the Egyptian State consolidates a double way of relationship ...