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Selected case studies and useful reading questions: what was found, how was it studied and what follows from the evidence?
The articles and guides here connect case studies with methods: layers and dating, critical reading, pottery, coins, inscriptions and raw materials. Choose a question, then follow the sources and related reading. Checking an abstract is never presented as reviewing an entire paper.
According to the Met's timeline, Alexander the Great built Alexandria as a new capital "turned outward toward the Mediterranean and Hellenistic world". What that wording tells us about a capital on the coast, and what it does not.
According to a page of Yale's Egyptology department, the present temple was begun in 237 BCE, inaugurated twice and officially finished in 57 BCE. How long does it take to build a temple, and what does "finished" mean?
The University of Michigan's excavations at Kom Aushim, the site of ancient Karanis, uncovered houses from the Ptolemaic period to the fourth and fifth centuries CE. What textiles, glass and coins tell us about daily life, and what they do not.
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