Holy War: Expansion of the Naqada Culture and State-Building in Egypt
Sveti rat: ekspanzija Nakada kulture i nastanak države u Egiptu

Summary/Abstract: Archaeological research would make little substantial progress withouttranscending on occasion the obvious limits of its ‘technical’ routine for the greatestcommon factor: the genuinely interdisciplinary and all-inclusive domain of palaeopolitics.Mortuary consolidation backed by the powerful ‘ideology of an afterlife’ pavedthe way for the political consolidation of the Naqada culture. The ever-larger UpperEgyptian proto-state was spearheaded by the ultimate politico-religious leader: the divineking, the god on earth, incarnated Horus, accompanied by an increasing numberof followers/believers. Every religion has its respective birthplace, i.e. an absolute geographiclocation (Nekhen for instance) to which its roots can be traced. The iconographyof coercion, along with so-called powerfacts, is firmly established in southern UpperEgypt. Holy war in direct connection with state-building is a well-known narrative, ahistorical and modern phenomenon.

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