Year of manufacture: 2003
Author: Michael Rice
Genre: History of antiquity / History of Egypt / Popular science
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0-415-26874-5; 0-415-26875-3
English language
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 312

The author considers the first 3000 years of Egyptian history, from 5000 to 2000 BC, before the fall of the Old Kingdom. The unique and amazing culture of ancient Egypt is explained by the author of the African, in fact, the nature of ancient Egyptian society, various institutions, art, etc. Analyzed are the shaping influences of political and social organization and iconography of the most ancient Egypt, the earliest evidence of historical Egyptian identity, The extent of Egypt's contacts with south-west Asia, especially with Sumer and Elam, and the countries adjacent to the Arabian Gulf.
Despite the detailed attention to the archaeological evidence, the author managed to write a dynamic and readable text, in which, in addition to the listed topics
They are considered: the origin of the first Egyptians, the origins of the kingdom, the development of the ethnic state, the early cities - Hieraconpolis, Nagada, and Abydos, the heyday of the Pyramid Age.

List of illustrations………… ix
Introduction to the new edition………… xiii
Preface to the original edition………… xxi
Acknowledgements…………… xxxi
1 The land of Egypt ............1
2 The roots of the Egyptian State …………20
3 The pursuit of the divine………….. 40
4 The royal power centres …………..70
5 The Dual Kings…………… 94
6 The legacy of the founder kings …………..132
7 The Third Dynasty: innovation………….. 153
8 The pyramid age: the splendour of the Old Kingdom ……………172
9 The Old Kingdom: fulfilment and decline …………..189
10 The end of the Old Kingdom …………….213
11 Eastwards from Egypt ……………226
12 C.G. Jung and Ancient Egypt…………… 244
Chronological table……………. 274
Notes ……………276
Abbreviations………….. 290
Bibliography………….292
Index…………. 301

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