Record details

• ISBN: 0816040362
• ISBN: 9780816040360
• Physical Description: 240 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 31 cm
• Edition: Revised edition.
• Publisher: New York : Facts on file, 2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"An Andromeda book"--P. [2].

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-233) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1 Cultural Setting -- Geography of Ancient Egypt 12 -- Study of Ancient Egypt 22 -- Historical background 30 -- Kings of Egypt 36 -- Gallery of Kings 38 -- Art and Architecture 56 -- Conventions of Representation 60 -- Tomb Stelae 62 -- Part 2 A Journey down -- Boats on the Nile 68 -- Southern Upper Egypt 70 -- Thebes 84 -- John Gardner Wilkinson at Thebes 106 -- Northern Upper Egypt 108 -- Middle Egypt 120 -- Memphis 134 -- Pyramids: Types and Construction 138 -- Lower Egypt--The Delta 166 -- Nubia 178 -- Peripheral Regions 187 -- Part 3 Aspects of Egyptian Society -- Everyday Life 190 -- Scribes and Writing 198 -- Army 202 -- Women and Men 204 -- Religion 209 -- Egyptian Pantheon 212 -- Burial Customs 220 -- Egypt in Western Art, by Helen Whitehouse 222 -- Museums with Egyptian Collections 224 -- Geographical setting of Egypt 12 -- Nomes of Upper Egypt 14 -- Nomes of Lower Egypt 15 -- Population density in the Nile valley 16 -- Delta topography 18 -- Natural resources of ancient Egypt 21 -- Travelers to Egypt and Sudan before 1800 25 -- Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt 31 -- Second cataract area in Predynastic times 31 -- Egypt in the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period 33 -- Egypt in the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period 41 -- Second cataract forts of the Middle Kingdom 41 -- Egypt in the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period 43 -- Egypt and the Near East (c. 1530-1190 BCE) 44 -- Egypt in the late Third Intermediate Period 47 -- Egypt in the Late Period, with the state of Napata--Meroe (c. 715 BCE - 4th century CE) 49 -- Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East in the Late Period 50 -- Egypt in the Greco-Roman Period 53 -- Faiyum in the Greco-Roman Period 53 -- Egypt and the east Mediterranean in the Greco-Roman Period 54 -- Key to regional maps 67 -- Southern Upper Egypt 71 -- District of Aswan 72 -- District of Thebes 85 -- Northern Upper Egypt 109 -- Middle Egypt 121 -- Faiyum 131 -- District of Memphis 135 -- Location of the pyramids 141 -- Lower Egypt--The Delta 167 -- Lower Nubia 179 -- Upper Nubia 186 -- Oases in the Western Desert 187 -- Sinai 188 -- Distribution of local cults 213 -- Museums with Egyptian collections 224.

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Egypt > Antiquities.
Egypt > Civilization > 332 B.C.-638 A.D.
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