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The Industrial Revolution has begun, and the Bronze Age civilizations are taking full advantage of it. New technologies, factories, and corporations are appearing in every area of life, and prosperity is rapidly increasing. Yet, there still remain threats which have the potential to revert all this hard-earned progress. In the west, the Organization of Free Kingdoms struggles to stay united as the war is now long over, and the Commonwealth's pharaoh slowly begins losing the grip over his country. Meanwhile, east of the Euphrates, the Eastern Coalition's monarchs compete for power with the emerging megacorporations, while also struggling to put down the ever-increasing slave revolts and worker strikes led by the Mesopotamian Freedom Front. At the same time, as the great powers are distracted and still engaged in an unending cold war, a new power emerges in the southern lands of Sabaea, born out of decades of civil war and hatred for the kingdoms that caused it. The Dawn of Maat is the fourth and final entry in the first phase of The Bronze Horus. Now, only one question remains - will the civilized realms survive this onslaught of calamities, or are the end times finally here to usher in chaos and destruction and continue the Bronze Age cycle of rise and collapse?

The war continues. The eastern emperor continues his march west, along with his newly formed Eastern Coalition of Elam, Babylonia, Assyria, Hatti, and the Kingdom of the Levant. Opposing them stands the Organization of Free Kingdoms - Egypt, the Mycenaean Confederation, Alashiya, and the Hittite and Assyrian exiles, seeking to reclaim the kingdoms they had lost. The March of Deshret is the second novel of The Bronze Horus, an alternate history series in the world where the Bronze Age Collapse never happened. The March of Deshret directly follows The Rise of Kemet and continues the story of characters such as Amenemheb, Ramesses XI, Muwatalli III, Tiglath-Pileser, Shilhak-Inshushinak, and more, as the largest war in history so far, encompassing most of the known world, rages on. Will the OFK manage to defend their lands and reclaim the lost kingdoms? Or will the EC finish their conquest of the known world and establish the largest empire in history? That will be decided soon enough, as the two giants clash in the greatest battles their kingdoms had ever seen, and their outcome will decide the fate of this world...

While the war between the Organization of Free Kingdoms and the Eastern Coalition officially ended with the Treaty of Euphrates, the conflict between the two factions still continues. A new phase begins, one of a cold war between the power blocks led by the Kingdom of Elam and the Commonwealth of Kemet, Kush, and Retjenu. Working to expand their territory, deal with domestic threats, and acquire new allies, both great powers compete for supremacy in the known world, though now not only through their armies and navies, but also their newly established intelligence agencies. The Khonsu War, taking place shortly after the March of Deshret, is a collection of short stories about the missions of the Kemet Intelligence Agency and the Eastern Coalition Secret Service, as well as the lives of regular citizens living in this greatly changed world. It also includes in universe reports to the pharaoh, where prominent officials from the Commonwealth inform their overlord about the economics, schools of philosophy, new inventions created over the previous few decades, and other important matters in this alternate universe, where the Late Bronze Age collapse was averted at the last moment.

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Cities are sites of multiple meanings and symbols, ranging from statues and street names to festivals and architecture. Sometimes the symbolic side of urbanism is so strong that it outshines reality -- then we speak of hypercity. Urban symbolic ecology and hypercity studies are relatively new fields that deal with the production, distribution and consumption of symbols and meanings in urban space, timely concerns in an era of increasing globalization and competition between mega-urban regions. This volume, which presents a detailed introduction to the new fields, followed by case studies of the cultural layer of symbolism in Brussels (Belgium), Cape Town (South Africa), Cuenca (Ecuador), Delft (The Netherlands), Kingston (Jamaica), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Paris (France) and cities in Italy and Indonesia, amply demonstrates that the time has come for urban symbolic ecology and hypercity studies to be included in regular urban studies training in the fields of anthropology, sociology and architecture.