Several documents from Egypt and Ḫatti (especially the Amarna letters and the Egyptian-Hittite correspondence) mention envoys and messengers in charge of diplomatic contacts between the two countries. Cuneiform and hieroglyphic transcriptions of Egyptian names at Ugarit hint at an actual presence (in Ugarit and Karkemish) of officials coming f…[Read more]

n this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 BC) is analysed and contextualised through the prism of archaeology and contemporary textual (Linear B, Egyptian and Hittite) evidence.

From the early 14th century BC onwards, Hittite texts refer to a land Ahhiya(wa). The exact geographic position…[Read more]

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it argues that the Mycenaean Greek world served as a nexus for international trade between the Near East and Europe during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600 to 1100 BCE). Rather than a barbarian periphery, Europe – and in particular regions such as the Carpathian basin and the southern Baltic (Denmark and S…[Read more]

Cette contribution présente un manuscrit de Jean-François Champollion conservé dans les Archives historique et civiques de Pavie et relatif à une stèle d’époque saïte des Musée civiques de Pavie. ——– This article presents a handwritten document of Jean-François Champollion, kept in the Civic Historical Archives of Pavia, reporting the tran…[Read more]

Catalogue entry presenting an Amduat papyrus (catalogue no. E16) kept in the Archaeological Museum of the University of Pavia (Italy), included in the exhibition “Sotto il cielo di Nut. Egitto divino”, Civico Museo Archeologico, Milano, 11th March-20th December 2020 (organized by S. Ceruti and A. Provenzali).

This book collects papers by many eminent scholars and young researchers on the topic of confrontation and historical, cultural, and economic relationships between East and West, particularly focusing on how the Orient was experienced and interpreted by Western travellers, historians, and scholars (of past and present times) in the light of E.…[Read more]