Ancient Egypt / / George Rawlinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rawlinson, George,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Kiraz Classic Archaeological Reprints
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (436 p.) :; 50
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; I. THE LAND OF EGYPT --; II. THE PEOPLE OF EGYPT --; III. THE DAWN OF HISTORY --; IV. THE PYRAMID BUILDERS --; V. THE RISE OF THEBES TO POWER, AND THE EARLY THEBAN KINGS --; VI. THE GOOD AMENEMHAT AND HIS WORKS --; VII. ABRAHAM IN EGYPT --; VIII. THE GREAT INVASION—THE IIYKSÖS OR SHEPHERD KINGS—JOSEPH AND APEPI --; IX. HOW THE HYKSÖS WERE EXPELLED FROM EGYPT --; X. THOTHMES I., THE FIRST GREAT EGYPTIAN CONQUEROR --; XI. QUEEN HATASU AND HER MERCHANT FLEET --; XII. THOTHMES THE THIRD AND AMENHOTEP THE SECOND --; XIII. AMENHOTEP III. AND HIS GREAT WORKS — THE VOCAL MEMNON --; XIV. KHUENATEN AND THE DISK-WORSHIPPERS --; XV. BEGINNING OF THE DECLINE OF EGYPT --; XVI. MENEPHTHA I., THE PHARAOH OF THE EXODUS --; XVII. THE DECLINE OF EGYPT UNDER THE LATER RAMESSIDES --; XVIII. THE PRIEST-KINGS—PINETEM AND SOLOMON --; XIX. SHISHAK AND HIS DYNASTY --; XX. THE LAND SHADOWING WITH WINGS—EGYPT UNDER THE ETHIOPIANS --; XXI. THE FIGHT OVER THE CARCASE—ETHIOPIA V. ASSYRIA --; XXII. THE CORPSE COMES TO LIFE AGAIN—PSAMATIK I. AND HIS SON NECO --; XXIII. THE LATER SAITE KINGS.—PSAMATIK II., APRIES, AND AMASIS --; XXIV. THE PERSIAN CONQUEST --; XXV. THREE DESPERATE REVOLTS --; XXVI. A LAST GLEAM OF SUNSHINE—NECTANEBO I --; XXVII. THE LIGHT GOES OUT IN DARKNESS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463213015; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463213015
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: George Rawlinson.

Rawlinson’s study of ancient Egypt surveys the land and people of Egypt before taking the development of the nation through historic chapters. Told in a level of detail to rival Breasted’s classic work on Egypt, this earlier study makes fascinating reading.