Craft Interactions in a New Kingdom Industrial Landscape (Egypt, 1550–1069 BCE)

This project charts for the first time the interaction between high-temperature technologies in New Kingdom Egypt (1550–1069 BCE). It focuses on a pivotal time in history when industrial-scale glass production was developed alongside growing copper alloy, faience and pigment manufacture and these materials were conspicuously exchanged throughout the Mediterranean. Although these high-temperature industries have been examined individually to varying extent, this project proposes a paradigm shift is needed to fully understand them in light of each other.