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June 2015 - June 2017
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Historical royal sources concerning Old Kingdom Egypt are rather scarce. One of the most important is a group of seven inscribed stone fragments also known as royal annals, the most famous of which is certainly the so-called Palermo Stone. These annals have been the subject of countless studies over more than a century since their initial discovery...
The paper offers a preliminary report on the 2018-2019 season at the sun temple of Niuserra in Abu Ghurab, including the 3D survey of the temple, archaeological investigaton in diverse areas of the upper temple (esp. the southern corridor, Room of the seasons and the so-called purification area), topographical exploration and a short study of the p...
In 2010 an Italian team started new on-field investigations in the area of the Sun Temple of Niuserra, 6km south of the pyramids of Giza. The archaeological research was planned to re-examine the monument after its discovery in 1898. The work was mainly aimed at a general evaluation of the archaeological structures, still visible, in order to estab...
The article reassesses and re-discusses the available archaeological and textual evidence of the city of Heliopolis, in the attempt to clarify its role in the historical evolution of the solar cult and religion in third millennium BC Old Kingdom Egypt. By connecting archaeological evidence with landscape phenomenology as well as private sources wit...
In this paper, that represents the core of my graduation thesis, I give an overall picture of the sun temples, showing how their meaning and evolution in the architectural and religious history of the Old Kingdom were closely connected to the defining process of the royal ideology during the IV and V dynasty.