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A History of Research into Ancient Egyptian Culture conducted in Southeast Europe

A history of Ancient Egypt has been studied in the region of Southeast Europe since the end of the nineteenth century. In some countries it seems that the history of the Ancient Egypt was not scholarly researched for various reasons, but mainly because of the undeveloped scholarly capabilities and institutions, insufficient funds for archaeological research in Egypt, and the lack of cooperation with scholars from other countries. Since the 1960's, however, this situation has changed for the better, first with the numerous publications of the diffusion of the Ancient Egyptian cults during Graeco-Roman period, and then with publications (articles, catalogues, books) about the Ancient Egyptian collections in various museum institutions from Southeast Europe. Since the early 1990's, we can trace the increased production of various scholarly papers in which researchers from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Romania, and Bulgaria, not only researched the Egyptian cults in Roman Empire, but also the various aspects of the history, religion and literature of the Ancient Egypt. Their research, however, was mostly unknown to the scholars outside this region primarily because their results were written in their own native languages. In this book we will try to give a review of the history of the research done in this region of the Ancient Egypt, and present some of the latest research. In it you will find a selection of papers in which scholars from various institutions in this region reviewed the different aspects of past studies and the development of the research of the Ancient Egypt in some countries, along with recent research in the field. We hope that this publication will be useful for all scholars who are unfamiliar with the historiography of this region.

Egypt; Southeast Europe; history; culture

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