Julien Cooper
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4045940 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Julien Cooper |
| PRENOMES | Julien |
| SOBRENOME | Cooper |
| ASSINATURA | COOPER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8621-9315 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Wandering fig trees
Evidence for the exchange or diffusion of religious traditions between ancient Egypt and neighbouring Africa is usually confined to the cultures of the Nile corridor in Nubia. Religious connections between Egypt and cultures further afield, while amply discussed, still await confirmation. This analysis demonstrates the likely connection or importation of a sacred sycamore tradition from the Beja culture of Eastern Sudan into the cult of the Egypt…
Atbai Enclosure Burials
Despite being at the crossroads of the well-studied worlds of ancient Egypt and Nubia, the archaeology of the Atbai Desert, the region between the Nubian Nile and the Red Sea, is still in its infancy. Cultural horizons are poorly defined, and patterns and chronologies of human habitation are only slowly emerging. As part of the satellite remote sensing workflows of the Atbai Survey Project, a common monumental burial feature has been identified a…
Should Terms Such as ‘Bronze Age’ and ‘Iron Age’ be Used in the Context of Middle Nile Valley Archaeology
Fuzzy Boundaries or Hard Borders? Cultural Groupings in Second Millennium bc Nubia from the View of Linguistic Evidence
The region of Sudan and Nubia has always been witness to a complicated nexus of linguistic groupings, frequently exhibiting episodes of linguistic shifts, migration, and extinction. From Nilo-Saharan languages like Meroitic, to Afroasiatic languages like Beja, the region of the Second Millennium bce Middle Nile was certainly not homogenous ethno-linguistically. Linguistic enigmas provide further confusion, like the unknown languages of Lower Nubi…
Naming and Labelling Cultures of the Middle Nile in the Second Millennium bce – a Discussion of Cultural, Linguistic, and Geographic Categories
Pastoralists, travellers, and miners in the Atbai Desert (Sudan)
Owing to the remote terrain and difficulty of logistics, archaeological investigations of the Atbai Desert of Eastern Sudan are in their infancy. As part of a larger project aimed at surveying and documenting sites at threat from modern gold mining, in 2019 the Atbai Survey Project investigated the site of Khor Rafit, a multi-period site with importance both to ancient nomadic groups and foreign urban states (Rome, the Arab-Islamic Caliphate, Nub…
Egyptian Geography of the Southern Red Sea
The land of Wetenet is one of the most enduring Red Sea placenames mentioned in Egyptian literature. Its place in the Egyptian conceptual map of the Red Sea has been largely ignored due to it being eclipsed by the much more ubiquitous toponym, Punt. Unlike Punt and its aromatics, Wetenet was visited primarily to secure ebony, with these voyages also providing the stimulus or “field notes” for the elucidating the Eastern Souls, the solar baboons o…
Divine Roots
The names of gods are an important expression of the Egyptian experience of the divine. Understanding the etymology of divine names can give us insights into the conceptions of the oldest adherents of religious cults, allowing us to appreciate of the essence of the original deity. This analysis will propose an etymology for the name of the god Thoth and situate the god’s name in its proper lexical and theological context, relating the divine name…
Introduction
Rock Art Surveys in the Sudanese Eastern Desert
The Sudanese Eastern Desert or the ‘Atbai’ is still largely unexplored from the point of view of rock art surveys. As part of the Atbai Survey Project’s fieldwork program, surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019 identified new rock art sites in the deserts around Gebel Nahoganet. Findings included a large tableau of a boat ‘fleet’ along with numerous sites yielding faunal rock art and surface remains. While a generalized boat motif is relatively commo…
Beyond the Nile
The fertility brought about by the Egyptian and Sudanese Nile Valley allowed for one of the densest urban populations in the African continent, creating a myriad of different dynasties, states, and cities that dominated trade and politics across Northeast Africa. Despite the Nile-centric axis of this world (and our study of it), almost every boundary of the Egyptian or Nubian states were bordered by desert and savannah ecologies, the abode of her…
Between the Nile and the Red Sea
The Medjay were a group of desert nomads inhabiting the region between the Nile and the Red Sea contemporaneous to the Bronze Age of Ancient Egypt (c. 3100-1050 bce ). Well-known from textual sources from Pharaonic Egypt and Kushite Nubia, it has proven difficult to produce basic societal descriptions of the Medjay and their political status, especially in their desert heartland. Most studies dedicated to the Medjay evaluate their presence as a n…
Goldmines, nomad camps, and cemeteries
A Nomadic State? The ‘Blemmyean-Beja’ Polity of the Ancient Eastern Desert
Ancient nomadic peoples in Northeast Africa, being in the shadow of urban regimes of Egypt, Kush, and Aksum as well as the Graeco-Roman and Arab worlds, have been generally relegated to the historiographical model of the frontier ‘barbarian’. In this view, little political importance is attached to indigenous political organisation, with desert nomads being considered an amorphous mass of unsettled people beyond the frontiers of established state…
Punt in the ‘Northern’ Topographical Lists
Egyptian scribes presented their knowledge of foreign geography in an epigraphic corpus known as the Topographical Lists. These lists are an important and often under-utilized source for Egypt’s foreign contacts in the Levant and Africa. As a list of placenames and sometimes also the names of tribes or peoples, they represent an Egyptian geographic encyclopaedia of peripheral regions as transcribed and understood by Egyptian scribes. Copied again…
New Insights on the Inscription on a Painted Pan-Grave Bucranium, Grave 3252 at Cemetery 3100/3200, Mostagedda (Middle Egypt)
Toponymic Strata in Ancient Nubia until the Common Era
Transforming into a Swallow
Coffin Texts Spell 294 describes the transformation of the deceased into a mn.t -bird. Examination of the passage from a lexical, mythological, and geographical perspective have highlighted the bird’s solar and Hathoric associations, but additional layers of meaning are revealed when textual references are also examined zoologically. This approach has shown that Spell 294 accurately describes the appearance and natural behaviour of migratory and …
A Nomadic State? The ‘Blemmyean-Beja’ Polity of the Ancient Eastern Desert
Ancient nomadic peoples in Northeast Africa, being in the shadow of urban regimes of Egypt, Kush, and Aksum as well as the Graeco-Roman and Arab worlds, have been generally relegated to the historiographical model of the frontier ‘barbarian’. In this view, little political importance is attached to indigenous political organisation, with desert nomads being considered an amorphous mass of unsettled people beyond the frontiers of established state…
Goldmines, nomad camps, and cemeteries
Naming and Labelling Cultures of the Middle Nile in the Second Millennium bce – a Discussion of Cultural, Linguistic, and Geographic Categories
Toponymic Strata in Ancient Nubia until the Common Era
Transforming into a Swallow
Coffin Texts Spell 294 describes the transformation of the deceased into a mn.t -bird. Examination of the passage from a lexical, mythological, and geographical perspective have highlighted the bird’s solar and Hathoric associations, but additional layers of meaning are revealed when textual references are also examined zoologically. This approach has shown that Spell 294 accurately describes the appearance and natural behaviour of migratory and …
Transforming into a Swallow
Coffin Texts Spell 294 describes the transformation of the deceased into a mn.t -bird. Examination of the passage from a lexical, mythological, and geographical perspective have highlighted the bird’s solar and Hathoric associations, but additional layers of meaning are revealed when textual references are also examined zoologically. This approach has shown that Spell 294 accurately describes the appearance and natural behaviour of migratory and …
New Insights on the Inscription on a Painted Pan-Grave Bucranium, Grave 3252 at Cemetery 3100/3200, Mostagedda (Middle Egypt)
Toponymic Strata in Ancient Nubia until the Common Era
Punt in the ‘Northern’ Topographical Lists
Egyptian scribes presented their knowledge of foreign geography in an epigraphic corpus known as the Topographical Lists. These lists are an important and often under-utilized source for Egypt’s foreign contacts in the Levant and Africa. As a list of placenames and sometimes also the names of tribes or peoples, they represent an Egyptian geographic encyclopaedia of peripheral regions as transcribed and understood by Egyptian scribes. Copied again…
A Nomadic State? The ‘Blemmyean-Beja’ Polity of the Ancient Eastern Desert
Ancient nomadic peoples in Northeast Africa, being in the shadow of urban regimes of Egypt, Kush, and Aksum as well as the Graeco-Roman and Arab worlds, have been generally relegated to the historiographical model of the frontier ‘barbarian’. In this view, little political importance is attached to indigenous political organisation, with desert nomads being considered an amorphous mass of unsettled people beyond the frontiers of established state…
Between the Nile and the Red Sea
The Medjay were a group of desert nomads inhabiting the region between the Nile and the Red Sea contemporaneous to the Bronze Age of Ancient Egypt (c. 3100-1050 bce ). Well-known from textual sources from Pharaonic Egypt and Kushite Nubia, it has proven difficult to produce basic societal descriptions of the Medjay and their political status, especially in their desert heartland. Most studies dedicated to the Medjay evaluate their presence as a n…
Goldmines, nomad camps, and cemeteries
Beyond the Nile
The fertility brought about by the Egyptian and Sudanese Nile Valley allowed for one of the densest urban populations in the African continent, creating a myriad of different dynasties, states, and cities that dominated trade and politics across Northeast Africa. Despite the Nile-centric axis of this world (and our study of it), almost every boundary of the Egyptian or Nubian states were bordered by desert and savannah ecologies, the abode of her…
Introduction
Rock Art Surveys in the Sudanese Eastern Desert
The Sudanese Eastern Desert or the ‘Atbai’ is still largely unexplored from the point of view of rock art surveys. As part of the Atbai Survey Project’s fieldwork program, surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019 identified new rock art sites in the deserts around Gebel Nahoganet. Findings included a large tableau of a boat ‘fleet’ along with numerous sites yielding faunal rock art and surface remains. While a generalized boat motif is relatively commo…
Egyptian Geography of the Southern Red Sea
The land of Wetenet is one of the most enduring Red Sea placenames mentioned in Egyptian literature. Its place in the Egyptian conceptual map of the Red Sea has been largely ignored due to it being eclipsed by the much more ubiquitous toponym, Punt. Unlike Punt and its aromatics, Wetenet was visited primarily to secure ebony, with these voyages also providing the stimulus or “field notes” for the elucidating the Eastern Souls, the solar baboons o…
Divine Roots
The names of gods are an important expression of the Egyptian experience of the divine. Understanding the etymology of divine names can give us insights into the conceptions of the oldest adherents of religious cults, allowing us to appreciate of the essence of the original deity. This analysis will propose an etymology for the name of the god Thoth and situate the god’s name in its proper lexical and theological context, relating the divine name…
Should Terms Such as ‘Bronze Age’ and ‘Iron Age’ be Used in the Context of Middle Nile Valley Archaeology
Fuzzy Boundaries or Hard Borders? Cultural Groupings in Second Millennium bc Nubia from the View of Linguistic Evidence
The region of Sudan and Nubia has always been witness to a complicated nexus of linguistic groupings, frequently exhibiting episodes of linguistic shifts, migration, and extinction. From Nilo-Saharan languages like Meroitic, to Afroasiatic languages like Beja, the region of the Second Millennium bce Middle Nile was certainly not homogenous ethno-linguistically. Linguistic enigmas provide further confusion, like the unknown languages of Lower Nubi…
Naming and Labelling Cultures of the Middle Nile in the Second Millennium bce – a Discussion of Cultural, Linguistic, and Geographic Categories
Pastoralists, travellers, and miners in the Atbai Desert (Sudan)
Owing to the remote terrain and difficulty of logistics, archaeological investigations of the Atbai Desert of Eastern Sudan are in their infancy. As part of a larger project aimed at surveying and documenting sites at threat from modern gold mining, in 2019 the Atbai Survey Project investigated the site of Khor Rafit, a multi-period site with importance both to ancient nomadic groups and foreign urban states (Rome, the Arab-Islamic Caliphate, Nub…
Wandering fig trees
Evidence for the exchange or diffusion of religious traditions between ancient Egypt and neighbouring Africa is usually confined to the cultures of the Nile corridor in Nubia. Religious connections between Egypt and cultures further afield, while amply discussed, still await confirmation. This analysis demonstrates the likely connection or importation of a sacred sycamore tradition from the Beja culture of Eastern Sudan into the cult of the Egypt…
Atbai Enclosure Burials
Despite being at the crossroads of the well-studied worlds of ancient Egypt and Nubia, the archaeology of the Atbai Desert, the region between the Nubian Nile and the Red Sea, is still in its infancy. Cultural horizons are poorly defined, and patterns and chronologies of human habitation are only slowly emerging. As part of the satellite remote sensing workflows of the Atbai Survey Project, a common monumental burial feature has been identified a…
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