This research examines how Greco-Roman Egyptians engaged with the pharaonic past through funerary landscapes at Deir el-Medina. Using spatial analysis, it reveals increasing reuse of tombs for burial and habitation over time. These interactions embedded the past into daily life, showing how cultural heritage is actively negotiated within lived environments.

This research challenges traditional views of Hellenism as a one-way imposition of Greek culture after Alexander’s conquests. Using ancient sources, it shows that indigenous populations actively selected, adapted, and blended Greek ideas with their own traditions, maintaining significant autonomy and shaping hybrid political and cultural systems that developed long after Alexander’s death.