A History of Ancient Egypt. Volume 2 From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom
John Romer
Paperback (02 Nov 2017)


Publishers Synopsis

This definitive, multi-volume history of the worlds first known state reveals that much of what we have been taught about Ancient Egypt is the product of narrow-minded visions of the past

Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a peak of Pharaonic culture and the period when writing first flourished. He reveals how the grand narratives of nineteenth and twentieth-century Egyptologists have misled us by portraying a culture of cruel monarchs and chronic war. Instead, based in part on discoveries of the past two decades, this extraordinary account shows what we can really learn from the remaining architecture, objects, and writing: a history based on physical reality.


Book information

ISBN: 9780141399720
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books
Pub date: 02 Nov 2017
DEWEY: 932.01
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 3436
Number of pages: xxvi, 645 , 16 unnumbered of plates
Weight: 484g
Height: 131mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 30mm