NEW KINGDOM STUDIES

 

This New Kingdom Studies division of my egyptology book-files catalogue is dedicated to the most shining and powerful Ancient Egyptian state ever existed. The historical period between ca. 1550 and 1077 BCE presents a chain of victorious conquests, colossal buildings, wonderful tomb paintings and mysterious tomb treasuries. That is time of great warlords Thutmose III, Sety I,  Ramesses II, Ramesses III and Merneptah, female pharaoh Hatshepsut and master of diplomacy Amenhotep III. That is the age of Amarna turmoil and cursed heretic Akhenaten, his beutiful wife Nefertity and boy-king Tutankhamen. In Late Bronze Age world Egypt met the mighty Hittites and pushed back the wave of Sea Peoples. In literature appeared the Book of the Dead.

NEW KINGDOM STUDIES

I. XVIII-th dynasty 

1.1. Political History

1.2. Thutmose III

2. Society

II. Amarna Age

1. Amarna Studies

2. Akhenaten and Nefertiti

3. Tutankhamen

4. Amarna letters

5. Tel El Amarna

II. Ramesside Period:

1.1. Ramesside Political History

1.2. Ramesses The Great

2.1. Ramesside Society

2.2. Deir el Medina

3. Relations with the Hittites

4. Sea Peoples invasion

III.Material culture:

1. Archaeology and art

2.1. Architecture

2.2. New Kingdom Cemeteries

2.3. The Theban archaeological complex 

2.3.1. Thebes in general

2.3.2. Karnak

2.3.3. Luxor

2.3.4. Medinet Habu

2.3.5. Deir El Bahri

2.3.6. Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens

2.3.7. Private tombs in the Theban Necropolis

2.3.8. Gourna

IV. Written culture

1. Book of the dead 

2. New Kingdom Literature

3. Language and Writing

4. New Kingdom Papyri

5. New Kingdom Inscriptions