Ancient Asyut

The First Synthesis after 300 Years of Research

by Jochem Kahl

Book cover: Ancient Asyut

Extent: 188 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Ancient Egypt

Series: Asyut Project

Series volume number: 1

Language: English

Hardback (Out of print)

(December 2007)

ISBN: 9783447056663

Price: $68.00

Out of stock

Due to a poor history of research and the deprival of many of its monuments, Asyut had been forgotten for a long time. The ancient site, its town, its temples, and its necropolis had not been the focus of any archaeological interest since the 1920s. In the 1980s and 1990s some attempts to start scientifi c work in Asyut failed. Only in 2003 a new field project began: The Asyut Project. A joint mission of the Universities of Munster (2003 and 2004), Mainz (2004 up to present) and Sohag (2003 up to present). Fieldwork and studies of former research work enabled the author to reconstruct for the first time the history of the ancient necropolis, and thereby of the ancient town and its different fortunes as a city of culture, as a border town, and as a wounded city.

  • By (author) Jochem Kahl