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Herodotus (2.35) tells us that in ancient Egypt all the customs are contrary to the rest of the world: women trade, while men stay in the house, and the former enjoy far greater freedom than anywhere else. But is this vision of ancient Egyptian society, progressive as it may seem, supported by Egyptian evidence or is it just a creation of the Greek historian? How can we approach the subject of women and the female viewpoint in the past based on textual or iconographic evidence primarily produced by men and thus largely reflecting male perspective? Can material culture help us add nuance to the picture without oversimplifying individual experiences?

We are delighted to announce that the programme of the conference “Women’s Perspectives in the Nile Valley”, which will take place from 25th to 27th June 2025 in Warsaw (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw), as well as the book of abstracts, is now available (see below).

The event focuses on female experiences and perspectives in ancient Egypt and Nubia, addressing divine, royal, elite, and non-elite spheres. It also explores the history of exploration and the role of women in the study of the ancient Nile Valley.

While the conference was originally planned as an in-person event, due to great interest we have decided to transform it into a hybrid format. If you wish to receive a link to the livestream, please send an email to .

 

Abstracts available here.

Conference programme available here.

 

We look forward to welcoming you to Warsaw and online!

The Organising Committee

Ewa Józefowicz (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures PAS)

Marta Kaczanowicz (Faculty of Archaeology UW)

Filip Taterka (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures PAS)

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This talk explores the rise, expansion and decline of monasteries in East Arabia during the sixth to eighth centuries CE, evaluating it in the context of the increasing influence of East Syrian (Nestorian) Christianity in the late Sasanian empire, the imperial ambitions of the Sasanian emperors in Arabia, and the emergence of an Islamic state that conquered and appropriated the Sasanian lands and gradually asserted its authority over East Arabia and the Gulf. It is also discussed whether this latter phenomenon brought about the demise of the monasteries of East Arabia.

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We are pleased to inform you that Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia 37 (published by IMOC PAS) is now available on the journal’s website (http://aav.iksiopan.pl/index.php/en/current-issue).

This issue, co-financed by the programme of the Polish Ministry of Education and Science entitled “Development of Scientific Journals” (project no. RCN/SP/0163/2021/1), is mainly dedicated to various aspects of Buddhism (textual and visual), but also follows the traces of Islam in China and portrays Macau in Portuguese films.

As usual we encourage you to read this issue and would also like to invite you to contribute to the journal in the future.

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The publication can be downloaded HERE.

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Nicola Laneri is a professor at the University of Catania and is the Director of the School of Religious Studies at CAMNES (Florence). He taught at the University of Chicago, the Middle Eastern Technical University of Ankara and the Oriental Institute of Naples.  Principal Investigator of the project PRIN 2020 (MUR) - Godscapes: Modeling Second Millennium BCE Polytheisms in the eastern Mediterranean. Since 2022, he is the director of the Baghdad Urban Archaeological Project (BUAP) linked to the excavation at Tell Muhammad (Iraq). 
 
Chiara Pappalardo is research associate in Archaeology of the Ancient Near East at the University of Catania, where she obtained her PhD with a dissertation titled Visible Dead: Ancestral Landscapes in Prehistory between the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East.
 As a member of the project Godscapes: Modeling Second Millennium BCE Polytheisms in the Eastern Mediterranean, her current focus is the analysis of the material data related to religiosity in the Levant during the second millennium BCE through a semantic approach.
 
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The Project ‘Godscapes: Modeling Second Millennium BCE Polytheisms in the Eastern Mediterranean’ aims at defining the basic material elements occurred in structuring forms of complex polytheisms practiced in the Levant during the Second Millennium BCE. In order to do so, we are trying to disentangle the new elements from the traditional aspects that had a long-term tradition throughout the second millennium BCE in framing religious architecture, funerary traditions, religious texts, iconographic elements. Based on these theoretical premises, the project proposes an innovative application of the artificial intelligence, namely the Semantic Web, to build ‘The Godscapes Ontology’ (TGO) through a deconstruction process of the elements recognizable in four pivotal aspects associated with material religiosity: religious architecture, religious iconography, funerary rituals/beliefs, and religious texts. After introducing the project’s scope and methodology, the paper will present the conceptual model for TGO, and the knowledge graphs resulting from the Godscapes dataset, mapping how various aspects of human life and knowledge are related to each other in the construction of religious belief, that is considered as a co-product of the enactment of ritual behaviors, as reconstructed from material correlates recognizable in the archaeological context, and cognitive representations that are especially embedded in the iconographic representation of other-than-human beings. Preliminary results highlight the potential of TGO to aid researchers in the understanding of religious phenomena by not only reconstructing the inherent missing information within the data, but also by delivering a powerful tool to query and analyse them.
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  2. Prof. Joachim Quack lecture
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