Since its first publication in 1995, Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History has proved to be an invaluable resource for students of the ancient world looking t

Thousands of documentary and literary texts written on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Persian, have transformed our knowl

The private letters of ancient women in Egypt from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest

In Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry, Richard Parkinson explores how ancient Egyptian poems have been read and perceived across the ages. Presents an innovative a

"This is the most important and original study of literacy and the function of writing in ancient society to have appeared in the last twenty years. In a master