Theban Settlement Patterns | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Tourism and Hospitality | ||
| Volume 17, Issue 2, December 2011, Pages 200-181 PDF (4.41 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejth.2010.371710 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Thebes with its archaeological diversity is of great historical and architectural value. The changes in the settlement patterns show the development of political and social system. The findings help in reconstruction of the patterns of the ancient communities. Researches are taking place on settlement pattern data that has been used to make deductions about social, political and religious organizations of the ancient cultures. Hence, the study of changes in settlement patterns becomes a study of the development of the social and political organization. Religious buildings may expose ritual behaviour, while community constructions can provide helpful information showing the community's adaptation to its physical and cultural environments. The actual buildings, the sites, the group of sites must form some type of a regional network that reflects different aspects of the social and political organization of complex societies. It is worth considering the natural landscape of Thebes and its political rise that occurred due to the promotion done by royalty, as well as the elite through their cemetries, and mortuary temples | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Settlements; Thebes; patterns; death; Nile; geology; culture; environment; cemetries; spatial | ||
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