The Power of Walls – Fortifications in Ancient Northeastern Africa

Content:

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
• Květa Smoláriková: Egyptian Fortifications from the First Millennium BC
• Bogdan Żurawski: 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)