TY - JOUR AU - Anđelković, Branislav PY - 2022/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Holy War: Expansion of the Naqada Culture and State-Building in Egypt JF - Etnoantropološki problemi / Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology JA - EAP / IEA VL - 17 IS - 3 SE - Thematic Articles DO - 10.21301/eap.v17i3.4 UR - https://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/1101 SP - 867–902 AB - <p>Archaeological research would make little substantial progress without transcending on occasion the obvious limits of its ‘technical’ routine for the greatest common factor: the genuinely interdisciplinary and all-inclusive domain of palaeopolitics. Mortuary consolidation backed by the powerful ‘ideology of an afterlife’ paved the way for the political consolidation of the Naqada culture. The ever-larger Upper Egyptian proto-state was spearheaded by the ultimate politico-religious leader: the divine king, the god on earth, incarnated Horus, accompanied by an increasing number of followers/believers. Every religion has its respective birthplace, i.e. an absolute geographic location (Nekhen for instance) to which its roots can be traced. The iconography of coercion, along with so-called powerfacts, is firmly established in southern Upper Egypt. Holy war in direct connection with state-building is a well-known narrative, a historical and modern phenomenon.</p> ER -