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Author Gardiner, Alan H. (Alan Henderson), 1879-1963.

Title Egypt of the pharaohs : An Introduction / by Sir Alan Gardiner
Published London ; New York : Oxford University Press, [1964]
[©1961]

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 W'PONDS  932.01 Gar  AVAILABLE
Description xx, 461 pages, 22 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Series Oxford paperbacks
Oxford paperbacks.
Contents Bk I. Egyptology Ancient and modern -- The Egyptian language and writing -- The land, its neighbours and resources -- The foundations and nature of Egyptian history -- Excursus: Regnal years and method of dating -- Bk. II. The Old Kingdom -- The rise and fall of the middle Kingdom -- From collapse to recovery -- The Theban supremacy -- The religious revolution and after -- The Ramesside period: the Nineteenth dynasty -- Egypt under foreign rule -- The last assertions of independence -- Bk. III. Prehistory -- Manetho's first two dynasties. Epilogue -- Appendix: The Kings of Egypt from Manetho, the Kinglists and the monuments
Notes "First published by the Clarendon Press, 1961--T.p. verso
Bibliography Bibliographical reference
Index
SUBJECT Egypt -- History -- To 332 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041285
LC no. xcc00004835
ISBN 0195002679
9780195002676