The Power of Walls

Fortifications in Ancient Northeastern Africa

Edited by Friederike Jesse Edited by Carola Vogel

Book cover: The Power of Walls

Extent: 356 pages

Publisher: Heinrich-Barth Institute

Subjects: Ancient Egypt

Series: Colloquium Africanum

Series volume number: 5

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(January 2013)

ISBN: 9783927688391

Price: $37.00

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Border and Territory

  • Dan’el Kahn: The History of Kush – an Outline
  • Anja Kootz: State-Territory and Borders versus Hegemony and its Installations: Imaginations Expressed by the Ancient Egyptians during the Classical Periods
  • László Török: Egypt’s Southern Frontier Revisited Fortifications between Syria/Palestine and Nubia – Overview of the Historical Development of Fortifications
  • Carola Vogel: Keeping the Enemy Out ‒ Egyptian Fortifications of the Third and Second Millennium BC
  • KvÄ›ta Smoláriková: Egyptian Fortifications from the First Millennium BC
  • Bogdan Å»urawski: Strongholds on the Middle Nile: Nubian Fortifications of the Middle Ages Mariusz Drzewiecki: Fortifications and the Post-Meroitic Period in Upper Nubia: Some Thoughts Systems of Border Protection
  • James K. Hoffmeier: Reconstructing Egypt’s Eastern Frontier Defense Network in the New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age)
  • Lucia Mori: Fortified Citadels and Castles in Garamantian Times: the Evidence from Southern Fazzan (Libyan Sahara)
  • Derek A. Welsby: Rome’s Solution for the Defence of its Desert Frontier – a Model for Understanding the Strategies Adopted to Combat Similar Problems by the States on the Middle Nile?

Single Sites – Locations, Architecture, Garrison and Function

  • Irene Forstner-Müller: City Wall(s) in Avaris Pamela Rose & Alison Gascoigne: Hisn al-Bab: More Symbol than Substance
  • Stuart Tyson Smith: The Garrison and Inhabitants: A View from Askut Lisa Heidorn: Dorginarti: Fortress at the Mouth of the Rapids
  • Dieter Eigner: A Stone Building in the Desert Sands ‒ Some Remarks on the Architecture of the Gala Abu Ahmed Fortress
  • Friederike Jesse: Far from the Nile ‒ The Gala Abu Ahmed Fortress in Lower Wadi Howar (Northern Sudan)
  • Edited by Friederike Jesse
  • Edited by Carola Vogel