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Presents an innovative and multidisciplinary exploration of the fundamental importance of monumental and communal spaces in the construction of power, political order and community identities in the ancient and pre-modern world, drawing on case studies from ancient Egypt, Neo-Assyrian Nimrud and Hellenistic cities through Africa to the American south-west, Mexico, Peru and Southeast Asia.

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Juan Carlos Moreno García (PhD in Egyptology, 1995) is a CNRS senior researcher at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, as well as lecturer on social and economic history of ancient Egypt at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris. He has published extensively on the administration, socio-economic history, and landscape organisation of ancient Egypt, usually in a comparative perspective with other civilisations of the ancient world, and has organised several conferences on these topics.

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