Archaeology Odyssey

See Zervos, L’art de la Créte, figs. 774, 775; S. Hood, The Arts in Prehistoric Greece (Harmonds-worth, England: Penguin Books, 1978.), p. 109, fig. 92; A. Kanta, The Late Minoan III Period in Crete (Göteborg: Paul Astroms Forlag, 1980), p. 20; and J.A. Sakellarakis, Herakleion Museum. Illustrated Guide (Athens, 1995), no. 9305.

See A. Evans, The Palace of Minos, 2:2 (London: Macmillan and Co., 1928), pl. 30 a,b; and C. Zervos, L’art de la Créte néolithique et minoenne (Paris: Editions “Cahiers d’art,” 1956), fig. 619.

The earliest remains of the opium poppy may have been found in west-central Europe because the fossil material was preserved in frozen peat. See M. D. Merlin, On the Trail of the Ancient Opium Poppy (Cranbury, N.J.: Associated Univ. Presses, 1984). M. Booth’s Opium. A History (London: Pocket Books, 1997) deals with opium in antiquity incompletely and inaccurately.

See my discussion in Yohanan Aharoni, et al., The Macmillan Bible Atlas (New York: Macmillan, 1993), pp. 26–28.

Blackman, Middle Egyptian Stories, pp. 40:3, 41:5.

Blackman, Middle Egyptian Stories, p. 35.

Redford, “Egypt and Western Asia,” p. 126b.

Donald B. Redford, “Egypt and Western Asia in the Old Kingdom,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (1986), p. 126 and n. 13.

K. Sethe, Urkunden des alten Reichs 2nd. ed. (Leipzig: Urkunden des ägyptischen Altertums, 1932–33), pp. 101–104.

See Blackman, Middle Egyptian Stories, p. 25:7–15; after Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, p. 227.