Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt

Title Page......Page 3
Dedication Page......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Foreword to the First Edition......Page 9
Foreword to the Second Edition......Page 13
A Note on Names......Page 15
Ancient Egyptian Chronology......Page 17
List of Black-and-White Illustrations......Page 21
List of Color Illustrations in Photograph Insert......Page 23
List of Maps......Page 25
Geb the Hunter......Page 27
Crowns of the king of Egypt......Page 49
The Wagon or the Mountain......Page 42
Troubles with Time......Page 50
Wearers of the Double Crown......Page 59
The Narmer palette......Page 60
The royal titulary, cartouche, and serekh......Page 61
Wars of Religion?......Page 67
Serekhs of Sekhemib and Peribsen......Page 69
Serekh of Khasekhemui......Page 70
King Djoser’s Magician......Page 72
Types of Old Kingdom mastabas......Page 73
Building stages of the Step Pyramid......Page 74
Good King Snefru......Page 80
The pyramid complex......Page 85
The Missing Queen......Page 90
Children of Re......Page 101
The mummy and its equipment, and the ba......Page 108
Hippopotami and crocodile......Page 110
Despair and Deliverance......Page 121
Binder of the Two Lands......Page 133
Invasion......Page 152
Liberation......Page 158
Hatshepsut the Queen......Page 168
Titles of the Egyptian king......Page 171
Senenmut’s name and title, steward of Amon......Page 173
The Hatshepsut Problem......Page 188
The Other Hatshepsut Problem......Page 190
Photographic Insert......Page 191
Cartouches of Thutmose III......Page 210
Amenhotep II......Page 232
Amenhotep the Magnificent......Page 240
Cartouche of Akhenaton......Page 247
The god Aton in original form......Page 252
Aton as a sun disk, with rays ending in hands......Page 253
Look on My Works!......Page 282
Ramses II......Page 286
Peoples of the Sea......Page 299
Adventures of a Man of No Consequence......Page 311
The Quick and the Dead......Page 316
Tomb Robbers and Royal Mummies......Page 319
Mummy Musical Chairs......Page 324
The Third Intermediate Period......Page 325
Horse men from the Holy Mountain......Page 328
Back to the Drawing Board......Page 337
The Final Humiliation......Page 341
Additional Reading......Page 351
Sources of Quotes......Page 355
Index......Page 357
About the Author......Page 367
Also by Barbara Mertz......Page 368
Credits......Page 369
Copyright Notice......Page 370
About the Publisher......Page 371