Description
The Late Bronze Age is well-known for its so-called ‘internationalism’, with heightened interactions across North Africa, Western Asia, and the Aegean. But how did this ‘internationalism’ emerge, especially after the rise and fall of several powers, significant climatic disturbances, and population movements across these regions? To explore this question, we will focus on a community located in Egypt’s Eastern Delta that appears to have persisted through many of these shifts. This community has been most recently examined by members of the ERC Advanced Grant Project, ‘The Enigma of the Hyksos’, directed by Manfred Bietak. The various research areas of the project have revealed fresh insights on the community’s rulers, its people, their interactions, and the transformation of their culture across the Middle to the early Late Bronze Age. All strongly point to Egypt’s growing ties with an emerging complex network that eventually led to the Late Bronze Age’s ‘internationalism’, or, perhaps more accurately, to one of the earliest known periods of ‘globalisation’ in the ancient world.| Period | 20 Oct 2022 |
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| Held at | Australian Institute of Archaeology, Australia |
| Degree of Recognition | National |