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

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.

Table of Contents

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