Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to the Islamic Conquest

TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 9
LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT......Page 16
THE KING AND IDEOLOGY: ADMINISTRATION, ART, AND WRITING......Page 20
SOURCES, CALENDARS, AND CHRONOLOGY......Page 25
EGYPTOLOGY: THE RECOVERY AND STUDY OF ANCIENT EGYPT......Page 28
PREDYNASTIC EGYPT......Page 32
THE 1ST DYNASTY (C. 2925–C. 2775 BC)......Page 36
THE 2ND DYNASTY (C. 2775–C. 2650 BC)......Page 37
THE 3RD DYNASTY (C. 2650–C. 2575 BC)......Page 39
THE 4TH DYNASTY (C. 2575–C. 2465 BC)......Page 43
THE 5TH DYNASTY (C. 2465–C. 2325 BC)......Page 46
THE 6TH DYNASTY (C. 2325–C. 2150 BC)......Page 50
THE 9TH DYNASTY (C. 2130–2080 BC)......Page 52
THE 10TH (C. 2080–C. 1970 BC) AND 11TH (2081–1938 BC) DYNASTIES......Page 53
THE 12TH DYNASTY (1938–C. 1756 BC)......Page 54
THE 13TH DYNASTY (C. 1756–C. 1630 BC)......Page 57
THE SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD......Page 58
AHMOSE......Page 60
AMENHOTEP I......Page 61
THUTMOSE I AND THUTMOSE II......Page 62
HATSHEPSUT AND THUTMOSE III......Page 63
AMENHOTEP II AND THUTMOSE IV......Page 65
AMENHOTEP III......Page 67
AMENHOTEP IV (AKHENATON)......Page 69
THE AFTERMATH OF AMARNA......Page 71
THE RAMESSIDE PERIOD (19TH AND 20TH DYNASTIES)......Page 73
RAMSES II......Page 75
MERNEPTAH AND THE LAST YEARS OF THE 19TH DYNASTY......Page 76
THE EARLY 20TH DYNASTY: SETNAKHT AND RAMSES III......Page 77
RAMSES IV......Page 78
THE LATER RAMESSIDE KINGS......Page 79
THE 21ST DYNASTY......Page 81
LIBYAN RULE: THE 22ND AND 23RD DYNASTIES......Page 82
THE 24TH AND 25TH DYNASTIES......Page 84
THE LATE PERIOD (664–332 BC)......Page 85
EGYPT UNDER ACHAEMENID RULE......Page 87
THE 27TH DYNASTY......Page 88
THE 28TH, 29TH, AND 30TH DYNASTIES......Page 89
THE MACEDONIAN CONQUEST......Page 90
THE PTOLEMAIC DYNASTY......Page 91
THE PTOLEMIES (305–145 BC)......Page 92
DYNASTIC STRIFE AND DECLINE (145–30 BC)......Page 95
ADMINISTRATION......Page 97
ECONOMY......Page 98
RELIGION......Page 99
CULTURE......Page 100
EGYPT AS A PROVINCE OF ROME......Page 103
ADMINISTRATION AND ECONOMY UNDER ROME......Page 105
SOCIETY, RELIGION, AND CULTURE......Page 106
EGYPT’S ROLE IN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE......Page 109
THE ADVANCE OF CHRISTIANITY......Page 112
NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE......Page 115
SOURCES AND LIMITATIONS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN KNOWLEDGE......Page 117
KING, COSMOS, AND SOCIETY......Page 118
THE GODS......Page 120
GROUPINGS OF DEITIES......Page 123
MYTH......Page 125
THE CULT......Page 126
PIETY, PRACTICAL RELIGION, AND MAGIC......Page 127
THE WORLD OF THE DEAD......Page 130
INFLUENCE ON OTHER RELIGIONS......Page 132
EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE......Page 134
HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING......Page 135
HIERATIC SCRIPT......Page 146
DEMOTIC SCRIPT......Page 147
CHAPTER 9 EGYPTIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE......Page 150
DYNASTIC EGYPT......Page 151
ARCHITECTURE......Page 152
SCULPTURE......Page 164
RELIEF SCULPTURE AND PAINTING......Page 168
PLASTIC ARTS......Page 171
DECORATIVE ARTS......Page 173
GRECO-ROMAN EGYPT......Page 176
CHAPTER 10 EGYPTOMANIA......Page 179
ABU SIR......Page 183
AL-MA‘ADI......Page 184
DAHSHUR......Page 185
DAYR AL-MADINAH......Page 186
KARNAK......Page 187
LUXOR......Page 189
MAYDUM......Page 190
MEMPHIS......Page 191
SAQQARAH......Page 196
GLOSSARY......Page 198
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 200
INDEX......Page 202
BACK COVER......Page 208