| Description |
240 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 231-232. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The Cultural Setting -- The Geography of Ancient Egypt -- The Study of Ancient Egypt -- The Historical background -- Kings of Egypt -- Gallery of Kings -- Art and Architecture -- Conventions of Representation -- Tomb Stelae -- A Journey down -- Boats on the Nile -- Southern Upper Egypt -- Thebes -- John Gardner Wilkinson at Thebes -- Northern Upper Egypt -- Middle Egypt -- Memphis -- The Pyramids: Types and Construction -- Lower Egypt--The Delta -- Nubia -- Peripheral Regions -- Aspects of Egyptian Society -- Everyday Life -- Scribes and Writing -- The Army -- Women and Men -- Religion -- The Egyptian Pantheon -- Burial Customs -- Egypt in Western Art, by Helen Whitehouse -- Museums with Egyptian Collections -- The geographical setting of Egypt -- The nomes of Upper Egypt -- The nomes of Lower Egypt -- Population density in the Nile valley -- Delta topography -- Natural resources of ancient Egypt -- Travelers to Egypt and Sudan before 1800 -- Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt -- The second cataract area in Predynastic times -- Egypt in the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period -- Egypt in the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period -- The second cataract forts of the Middle Kingdom -- Egypt in the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period -- Egypt and the Near East (c. 1530-1190 BCE) -- Egypt in the late Third Intermediate Period -- Egypt in the Late Period, with the state of Napata--Meroe (c. 715 BCE - 4th century CE) -- Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East in the Late Period. |
| Subject |
Egypt -- Antiquities.
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Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C.
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Egypt -- Civilization -- 332 B.C.-638 A.D.
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| Added Author |
Málek, Jaromír.
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| ISBN |
0871963345: $29.95 |
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9780871963345 |
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