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Author Wilson, John A

Title The Culture of Ancient Egypt
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1956]

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Description 1 online resource (385 pages)
Contents Introduction; I. The Black Land: Geographic Factors of Egypt; II. Out Of The Mud: The Long Prehistoric Struggle; III. The Search For Security And Order: Dynasties 1-3 (about 3100-2700 B.C.); IV. The King And God: Dynasties 4-6 (about 2700-2200 B.C.); V. The First Illness: Dynasties 7-11 (about 2200-2050 B.C.); VI. The King As The Good Shepherd: Dynasties 11-12 (about 2050-1800 B.C.); VII. The Great Humiliation: Dynasties 13-17 (about 1800-1550 B.C.); VIII. Far Frontiers: Earlier Dynasty 18 (about 1550-1375 B.C.); IX. Irrepressible Conflict: Later Dynasty 18 {about 1375-1325 B.C.)
X. Where Is The Glory? Dynasties 18-20 (about 1325-1100 B.C.)XI. The Broken Reed: Late Empire and Post-Empire (1350 B.C. and After); Chronology; A Note on Translations; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Index
Summary The story of Egypt is the story of history itself-the endless rise and fall, the life and death and life again of the eternal human effort to endure, enjoy, and understand the mystery of our universe. Emerging from the ancient mists of time, Egypt met the challenge of the mystery in a glorious evolution of religious, intellectual, and political institutions and for two millenniums flourished with all the vigor that the human heart can invest in a social and cultural order. Then Egypt began to crumble into the desert sands and the waters of the Nile, and her remarkable achievements in civi
Analysis ancient egypt, world civilizations, egyptology, archeology, geology, hydrology, nile, river, pharaoh, dynasty, monarchy, wealth, power, art, tutankhamun, nefertiti, akhenaten, oriental institute, africa, asia, slaves, mercenaries, commerce, community, pyramids, copper, language, colossi, colonialism, death, mortality, desert, democratization, decentralization, determinism, famine, empire, irrigation, invasion, king, law, nature, osiris, philistines, palestine, pottery, priest, nonfiction, history
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Subject HISTORY -- Ancient -- Egypt.
Civilization
SUBJECT Egypt -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041265
Subject Egypt
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226148229
022614822X