Maksim Lebedev
Biographic Data
| ID | 1278003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maksim Lebedev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maksim |
| FAMILY NAME | Lebedev |
| SIGNATURE | LEBEDEV M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Oriental Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1524-2083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Archaeological Work at Gebel el-Nour and in the Area of Wadi Ghayada (Middle Egypt) in the Season 2025
The article presents preliminary results of the third field season of the Egyptian-Russian Gebel el-Nour Archaeological Project, conducted in November–December 2025. The work comprised excavations; archaeological, topographic, and geophysical surveys; investigation of the Wadi Ghayada cultural landscape; and conservation of architectural remains. Late Roman and Byzantine buildings, a kitchen complex, pottery, and a coin from early in Diocletian’s…
New Data on the Ancient Cultural Landscape at the Mouth of Wadi Ghayda (Middle Egypt)
In 2024, the second season of the Egyptian-Russian archaeological mission to Gebel el-Nour, an ancient site situated at the mouth of Wadi Ghayada, 120 km to the south of Cairo, commenced. The article summarizes the main preliminary results of these archaeological investigations and discusses their role in reconstructing the cultural landscape of the mouth of Wadi Ghayada in the Greek-Roman period. Research in the temple area revealed remains of t…
Hellenization of the monumental landscape of the Meroitic kingdom under Natakamani and Amanitore
The Meroitic Kush was the largest state on the southern borders of the Roman world. It reached its highest development by the 1st century AD under the rule of Natakamani and Amanitore whose extraordinary building activity attracted many scholars. Withing the framework of a large-scale program of renewing the monumental landscape of their state, the co-rulers erected, rebuilt, and restored cult and palace complexes throughout the country from Amar…
Management of the External Resource Base by the Old Kingdom Egyptian State
Ancient Egypt stands out as a rare example of a stable territorial state in the Middle East, achieving sustainability in part due to its access to a wide range of mineral resources located in what are now desert areas. Traditionally, the exploitation of this external resource base by the inhabitants of the Nile Valley has been studied primarily through written sources. This approach has led to the development of a widely accepted model that sugge…
Ptolemids' Heirs during the Period of Pax Romana? Evolution of the Royal Ideology and Monumental Landscape of the Meroitic State under Natakamani and Amanitore
Natakamani and Amanitore ruled the Meroitic (Kushite) kingdom during its last major rise in the 1st century AD. Many scholars consider their reign a period of economic prosperity based on peaceful relations with the Roman Empire and effective control of trade routes between the African inland and the Mediterranean. During the co-regency of Natakamani and Amanitore, an unprecedentedly large-scale program of development of the monumental landscape …
Apotropaea in the Equipment of Ancient Egyptian Infant Burials of the 1st Millennium BC from Eastern Giza
The paper analyzes the results of the work of the Russian Archaeological Mission of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Giza in 2013, 2017, and 2019—2020. During these seasons, the team recorded a unique double infant burial in an amphora in rock-cut tomb GE 49 (the southern section of the Russian concession) and a cemetery to the west of the rock-cut tomb of Kakherptah (the north-western section of the Russian…
Cultural and natural context of the ancient settlement of Gebel el-Nour in the mouth of Wadi Ghayada (Middle Egypt)
In 2022, the archaeological site of Gebel el-Nour witnessed the first season of the Egyptian-Russian archaeological mission organizes in cooperation between the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This Greek-Roman site and its surrounding infrastructure have not attracted much attention of researchers besides archaeological works within the temple area built by Ptolemy …
Non-Standard Old Kingdom Burials in the Context of Egyptian Ideas about the Afterlife
The paper deals with the problem of identifying and analyzing non-standard (alternative, deviant, extraordinary, atypical) Egyptian burials of the Old Kingdom (27th—22nd centuries BCE). On the territory of the Nile Valley, non-standard features are usually recorded in orientation of the body of the deceased or its position, manipulations with the body (skeleton) parts, incompleteness of the body (skeleton), and other features that are not consist…
Egyptian Expeditionary Inscriptions of the Fourth Dynasty and Ancient Natural Landscapes of the Western (Libyan) Desert
The Middle Holocene epoch in northeastern Africa was marked by a steady trend towards aridization. However, the transformation of ecosystems and natural landscapes was gradual and had a complex nature. This change directly affected the development of the first ancient Egyptian centralized state as well as the development of its resource base beyond the Nile Valley. This study addresses the problem of using ancient Egyptian epigraphic sources (exp…
Archaeological works to the north of the Great Amun temple at Jebel Barkal (Sudan)
The paper presents preliminary results and discusses future perspectives on archaeological research in the area to the north of the Great Amun temple at Jebel Barkal (Napata) in connection to the most recent excavations of elite Meroitic structure B 1700. The field season of 2020 at B 1700 continued to bring to light a new monumental foundation platform of the cellular type constructed for a building which function and meaning remain a subject fo…
Activation” of Ancient Egyptian Expeditionary Efforts under King Djedkare
Inscriptions left by participants of ancient Egyptian expeditions in areas beyond the Nile Valley have traditionally been an important source of information. They are used in the study of state institutions, political, socio-economical history, and world outlook of ancient Egyptians. The reign of the king Djedkare was marked by the rise of the number of expeditionary texts and attested state expeditions. From the same reign onwards a new type of …
An unusual example of beheading in an Old Kingdom burial at Giza (Egypt)
Ten years ago, the Russian archaeological mission at Giza (IOS RAS) excavated the tomb of the metal worker Perinedju (GE 19) at the eastern escarpment of the necropolis and discovered there an unusual burial of a beheaded male individual with the skull lying apart from the skeleton. The burial may be dated to the late 5th or early 6th Old Kingdom Dynasty (24th–23rd cent. BC). A lesion on the skull suggests that the head was separated from the bod…
History of Meroitic archaeological complexes of Wadi al-Hawad (Sudan)
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In the 4th century BC – 4th century AD, the southern neighbor of the Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt was the kingdom of Kush which became a natural link between the Medi-terranean world and Africa. After the name of its main economic and political center, Meroe, the Kushite state of that time is often refereed to in historiography as Meroitic Kingdom. Un-like in Greek and Roman Egypt rich with textual material, archaeology has always played a crucial r…
History of Meroitic archaeological complexes of Wadi al-Hawad (Sudan)
Follow the Layer
In the 4th century BC – 4th century AD, the southern neighbor of the Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt was the kingdom of Kush which became a natural link between the Medi-terranean world and Africa. After the name of its main economic and political center, Meroe, the Kushite state of that time is often refereed to in historiography as Meroitic Kingdom. Un-like in Greek and Roman Egypt rich with textual material, archaeology has always played a crucial r…
Activation” of Ancient Egyptian Expeditionary Efforts under King Djedkare
Inscriptions left by participants of ancient Egyptian expeditions in areas beyond the Nile Valley have traditionally been an important source of information. They are used in the study of state institutions, political, socio-economical history, and world outlook of ancient Egyptians. The reign of the king Djedkare was marked by the rise of the number of expeditionary texts and attested state expeditions. From the same reign onwards a new type of …
An unusual example of beheading in an Old Kingdom burial at Giza (Egypt)
Ten years ago, the Russian archaeological mission at Giza (IOS RAS) excavated the tomb of the metal worker Perinedju (GE 19) at the eastern escarpment of the necropolis and discovered there an unusual burial of a beheaded male individual with the skull lying apart from the skeleton. The burial may be dated to the late 5th or early 6th Old Kingdom Dynasty (24th–23rd cent. BC). A lesion on the skull suggests that the head was separated from the bod…
Egyptian Expeditionary Inscriptions of the Fourth Dynasty and Ancient Natural Landscapes of the Western (Libyan) Desert
The Middle Holocene epoch in northeastern Africa was marked by a steady trend towards aridization. However, the transformation of ecosystems and natural landscapes was gradual and had a complex nature. This change directly affected the development of the first ancient Egyptian centralized state as well as the development of its resource base beyond the Nile Valley. This study addresses the problem of using ancient Egyptian epigraphic sources (exp…
Archaeological works to the north of the Great Amun temple at Jebel Barkal (Sudan)
The paper presents preliminary results and discusses future perspectives on archaeological research in the area to the north of the Great Amun temple at Jebel Barkal (Napata) in connection to the most recent excavations of elite Meroitic structure B 1700. The field season of 2020 at B 1700 continued to bring to light a new monumental foundation platform of the cellular type constructed for a building which function and meaning remain a subject fo…
Non-Standard Old Kingdom Burials in the Context of Egyptian Ideas about the Afterlife
The paper deals with the problem of identifying and analyzing non-standard (alternative, deviant, extraordinary, atypical) Egyptian burials of the Old Kingdom (27th—22nd centuries BCE). On the territory of the Nile Valley, non-standard features are usually recorded in orientation of the body of the deceased or its position, manipulations with the body (skeleton) parts, incompleteness of the body (skeleton), and other features that are not consist…
Apotropaea in the Equipment of Ancient Egyptian Infant Burials of the 1st Millennium BC from Eastern Giza
The paper analyzes the results of the work of the Russian Archaeological Mission of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Giza in 2013, 2017, and 2019—2020. During these seasons, the team recorded a unique double infant burial in an amphora in rock-cut tomb GE 49 (the southern section of the Russian concession) and a cemetery to the west of the rock-cut tomb of Kakherptah (the north-western section of the Russian…
Cultural and natural context of the ancient settlement of Gebel el-Nour in the mouth of Wadi Ghayada (Middle Egypt)
In 2022, the archaeological site of Gebel el-Nour witnessed the first season of the Egyptian-Russian archaeological mission organizes in cooperation between the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This Greek-Roman site and its surrounding infrastructure have not attracted much attention of researchers besides archaeological works within the temple area built by Ptolemy …
Hellenization of the monumental landscape of the Meroitic kingdom under Natakamani and Amanitore
The Meroitic Kush was the largest state on the southern borders of the Roman world. It reached its highest development by the 1st century AD under the rule of Natakamani and Amanitore whose extraordinary building activity attracted many scholars. Withing the framework of a large-scale program of renewing the monumental landscape of their state, the co-rulers erected, rebuilt, and restored cult and palace complexes throughout the country from Amar…
Management of the External Resource Base by the Old Kingdom Egyptian State
Ancient Egypt stands out as a rare example of a stable territorial state in the Middle East, achieving sustainability in part due to its access to a wide range of mineral resources located in what are now desert areas. Traditionally, the exploitation of this external resource base by the inhabitants of the Nile Valley has been studied primarily through written sources. This approach has led to the development of a widely accepted model that sugge…
Ptolemids' Heirs during the Period of Pax Romana? Evolution of the Royal Ideology and Monumental Landscape of the Meroitic State under Natakamani and Amanitore
Natakamani and Amanitore ruled the Meroitic (Kushite) kingdom during its last major rise in the 1st century AD. Many scholars consider their reign a period of economic prosperity based on peaceful relations with the Roman Empire and effective control of trade routes between the African inland and the Mediterranean. During the co-regency of Natakamani and Amanitore, an unprecedentedly large-scale program of development of the monumental landscape …
New Data on the Ancient Cultural Landscape at the Mouth of Wadi Ghayda (Middle Egypt)
In 2024, the second season of the Egyptian-Russian archaeological mission to Gebel el-Nour, an ancient site situated at the mouth of Wadi Ghayada, 120 km to the south of Cairo, commenced. The article summarizes the main preliminary results of these archaeological investigations and discusses their role in reconstructing the cultural landscape of the mouth of Wadi Ghayada in the Greek-Roman period. Research in the temple area revealed remains of t…
Archaeological Work at Gebel el-Nour and in the Area of Wadi Ghayada (Middle Egypt) in the Season 2025
The article presents preliminary results of the third field season of the Egyptian-Russian Gebel el-Nour Archaeological Project, conducted in November–December 2025. The work comprised excavations; archaeological, topographic, and geophysical surveys; investigation of the Wadi Ghayada cultural landscape; and conservation of architectural remains. Late Roman and Byzantine buildings, a kitchen complex, pottery, and a coin from early in Diocletian’s…
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