Nile in Contact Texts

The texts of this project have been selected on the basis of three criteria—typology, geographical area and chronology. According to their typology, these texts are real or private historical-biographical inscriptions found on tombs, stelae or rocks. The Nile in Contact texts have been classified into three sections according to their chronology:

1) Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period.
2) Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period.
3) New Kingdom.

In each section, the texts are arranged according to their geographical origin to show the gradual expansion of Egypt across Nubia from the Old Kingdom onwards. Each toponym comprises the inscriptions found in a region and shows the link to the English translation of the text published in the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae. The translation, grammatical analysis, and philological commentary have been reviewed by Simon Schweitzer. The Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae updates its collection of inscriptions every autumn (September/October). The current status of the Nile in Contact inscriptions corresponds to the autumn 2024 update in which a large part of the Qubbet el-Hawa inscriptions of the Old Kingdom were published. It is planned to publish all the Nile in Contact inscriptions of the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period in the autumn 2024 update.