Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Preface vii
• Contents xi
• List of Plates xiii
• List of Figures in the Text xv
• List of Maps xvi
• Abbreviations xvii
• Book I - Preliminary 1
• I - Egyptology Ancient and Modern 1
• Select Bibliography 17
• II - The Egyptian Language and Writing 26
• III - The Land, Its Neighbours, and Resources 45
• IV - The Foundations and Nature of Egyptian History 68
• Book II - From the Pyramid-Builders to Alexander 72
• V - The Old Kingdom 72
• Select Bibliography 106

• Title Page iii
• Preface vii
• Contents xi
• List of Plates xiii
• List of Figures in the Text xv
• List of Maps xvi
• Abbreviations xvii
• Book I - Preliminary 1
• I - Egyptology Ancient and Modern 1
• Select Bibliography 17
• II - The Egyptian Language and Writing 26
• III - The Land, Its Neighbours, and Resources 45
• IV - The Foundations and Nature of Egyptian History 68
• Book II - From the Pyramid-Builders to Alexander 72
• V - The Old Kingdom 72
• Select Bibliography 106
• VI - The Rise and Fall of the Middle Kingdom 145
• VII - From Collapse to Recovery 175
• VIII - The Theban Supremacy 211
• IX - The Religious Revolution and After 246
• X - The Ramesside Period: (1) the Nineteenth Dynasty 279
• XI - The Ramesside Period: (2) the Twentieth Dynasty 314
• XII - Egypt Under Foreign Rule 350
• XIII - The Last Assertions of Independence 382
• Book III - Back to the Beginning 384
• XIV - Prehistory 384
• Select Bibliography 399
• XV - Manetho's First Two Dynasties. Epilogue 427
• Appendix 429
• Addenda 454
• Index 455