Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz. The companion volume to Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs, this book covers Egyptian society and daily life. Among other topics, Mertz discusses clothing, education, military life, art, magic, science, and religion and funerary practices. https://amzn.to/2Fd6mL4 Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Kasia Szpakowska. This…

Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz. Mertz combines erudition and humor in this lively introduction to ancient Egyptian history, focusing particularly on the 3rd and 2nd millennium BCE. https://amzn.to/3d9ErZb A History of Ancient Egypt by Marc Van De Mieroop. This is currently the best overview of Egyptian history…

A Companion to Ancient Egypt edited by Alan B. Lloyd. This two volume set contains information about nearly every aspect of ancient Egypt. http://amzn.to/2zeLX0w Egypt: The World of the Pharaohs by Matthias Seidel and Regine Schulz. This coffee table book combines a good number of illustrations and color photographs with brief but thorough essays on…

The existing evidence suggests a substantial Greek colony within Carthage, documented through ancient sources and Punic inscriptions. This colony notably comprised artisans, philosophers, educators, military personnel, along with “adventurers”. This influence is evident even within the Carthaginian aristocracy. A notable illustration is found in the case of Epicydes and Hippocrates, Punic officers during the Second…

Before 213 BC, the Numidians had no infantry. Around that time, the centurion Q. Statorius, sent by Scipio Africanus, formed an infantry at the request of King Syphax. He taught them Roman military tactics, including camp construction,as the Romans aimed to gain Syphax’s support. Troop recruitment was conducted by governors who operated under the authority…

Since most research programs have primarily focused on the Roman and Punic past of the region, the research for these periods is still in its early stages, and we still lack crucial information about them. The western part of the Maghreb has been involved in an early exchange network with the Iberian Peninsula since the…

A summary of the major thoughts and conclusions from the work of Pierre Cintas on Tunisian Protohistory: A first observation is that the phenomenon of dolmens in the Maghreb is mainly found in the north of the Atlas chain, while that of Tumuli and Chouchet is primarily associated with the high plateaus of the interior…

The information presented here is derived from an article by Maurice Euzennat published in 1971 in the journal “Antiquités Africaines.” Additional information is drawn from articles by M. Sartre 1975 and S. Andreeva et al. 2019. The presence of Syrians and Jews in Mauretania is well documented. This is unsurprising considering the significant number of…

Tlemcen is an ancient city located in western Algeria. The connection between this city and Al-Andalus dates back to the Umayyad period, when the tribes of the region became vassals of the Umayyad Caliph of Córdoba (Louis A. Gordon, Ian Oxnevad. “Middle East Politics for the New Millennium: A Constructivist Approach”, p. 66). There’s the…