The Culture of Ancient Egypt

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University of Chicago Press, 17. okt. 2013 - 352 sider
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 civilization became her lingering epitaph. John A. Wilson has written a rich and interpretive biography of one of the greatest cultural periods in human experience. He answers—as best the modern Egyptologist can—the questions inevitably asked concerning the dissolution of Egypt's glory. Here is scholarship in its finest form, concerned with the humanity that has preceded us, and finding in man's past grandeur and failure much meaning for men of today.
 

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Introduction
1
Geographic Factors of Egypt
8
The Long Prehistoric Struggle
18
Dynasties 13 about 31002700 BC
43
Dynasties 46 about 27002200 BC
69
Dynasties 711 about 22002050 BC
104
Dynasties 1112 about 20501800 BC
125
Dynasties 1317 about 18001550 BC
154
Later Dynasty 18 about 13751325 BC
206
X Where Is The Glory? Dynasties 1820 about 13251100 BC
236
Late Empire and PostEmpire 1350 BC and After
289
Chronology
319
A Note on Translations
321
Abbreviations
324
List of Illustrations
325
Index
331

Earlier Dynasty 18 about 15501375 BC
166

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The late John A. Wilson was Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.

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