Pharaoh’s army 2800-DWFAR-OG

Presentation in chronological order of iconographic, archaeological and textual sources, which can be used to reconstruct the development of Egyptian military in the times of pharaohs. Main topics:
- weapons;
- military architecture;
- army organization;
- military campaigns;
- goals and results of Egyptian wars.

Main focus will be on well documented military campaigns carried out by the Egyptian state during the New Kingdom (16-11 cent. BC). These campaigns resulted in creating an Egyptian Empire in Syria-Palestine and Nubia – the empire, which competed with major middle eastern powers of that time: Mittanni and Hittite states.

Course coordinators

Paulina Sawicka

Type of course

general courses

Mode

Blended learning

Prerequisites (description)

Student should have a general orientation in the history of Egypt and New East in the IIIrd and IInd millennia BC, should know the location and borders of the Egyptian state and its neighbours at that time

Bibliography

J.C. Darnell, C. Manassa, Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and Conquest During Ancient Egypt's Late Eighteenth Dynasty, Hoboken (NJ) 2007

R. Gundlach, C. Vogel (ed.), Militärgeschichte des pharaonischen Ägypten. Altägypten und seine Nachbarkulturen im Spiegel der aktuellen Forschung, Paderborn 2009

E.F. Morris, The Architecture of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Evolution of Foreign Policy in Egypt’s New Kingdom, Probleme der Ägyptologie, Band 22, Leiden 2005

A.J. Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt: The New Kingdom, Malden (MA) 2005

C. Vogel, Ägyptische Festungen und Garnisonen bis zum Ende des Mittleren Reiches, HÄB 46, Hildesheim 2004