The Rough Guide History of EgyptRough Guides, 2003 - 437 pages In the course of its long and remarkable history, Egypt has helped to lay the foundations of Western civilization and has become a cornerstone of Islam. This guide provides a concise overview of the whole 5000-year span, with a time-line that takes you from the period before the pharaohs to the present day. The guide features sidebars ranging from the Great Pyramid of Cheops to the Suez Canal crisis. Topics include irrigation, monasticism and Egyptian movies and there are illustrations and quotations throughout. |
Contents
Rock pictures at Gebel Uweinat Sahara Desert | 4 |
The Narmer palette | 11 |
The Step Pyramid Saqqara | 17 |
Egypt in the Ancient World | 22 |
The Pyramid of Chephren Giza | 25 |
The rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom | 33 |
A tomb painting from Aswan indicating the flourishing ivory trade | 40 |
A wallpainting of the goddess Maat at Siptah | 46 |
A bust of Alexander now in the British Museum | 133 |
Historic Alexandria | 135 |
Cleopatra and Caesarion carved in traditional Egyptian form | 157 |
The Roman and Christian periods | 161 |
Pompeys Pillar Alexandria | 177 |
The Arab period | 195 |
The mosque of Ibn Tulun Cairo | 207 |
The historical development of Cairo | 217 |
Ancient Egypt | 54 |
A wallpainting depicting chariots and horses | 56 |
The New Kingdom | 59 |
New Kingdom Thebes | 65 |
An obelisk at Karnak representing Hatshepsut | 67 |
A seated statue of Amenophis III at Thebes | 73 |
An engraving of a shaduf from the Description de lEgypte 180928 | 87 |
Statues of Rameses II and his wife Nefertari at Luxor | 90 |
The Third Intermediate Period | 101 |
The funerary mask of King Psusennes I | 105 |
The Ptolemaic Period | 127 |
Mamelukes and Ottomans | 227 |
Bab Zuwayla Cairo | 235 |
A Mameluke as illustrated in the Description de lEgypte 180928 | 239 |
Egypts encounter with the West | 255 |
A 19thcentury engraving of Napoleon facing the Sphinx at Giza | 259 |
in the Suez Canal | 281 |
The Liberal Era | 301 |
Egypt under Nasser | 341 |
The hydrology of modernday Egypt | 361 |
Contemporary Egypt | 371 |
Common terms and phrases
Abbasid Abydos Akhenaten Alexander Alexandria Amenophis Ammenemes Amun ANCIENT EGYPT Ankhtifi Antony Arab army Aswan Aten Athanasius Avaris Bahri battle BC Ptolemy became becomes begins Britain British building Byzantine Caesar Cairo caliph campaign Canal Cataract century Christian Church Cleopatra conquest Constantinople Coptic Copts Crusaders cult culture death defeated Delta desert Dynasty East Eastern Egyptian emperor Fatimids Fayyum fellahin forces foreign French Fustat governor Greek Hatshepsut Heliopolis high priest Horus Hyksos Ibrahim Intermediate Period irrigation Islam Ismail Itjtawy Jerusalem Jews Karnak king land Libyans Lower Egypt Mamelukes Mediterranean Memphis MICHAEL HAAG Middle Kingdom military Mohammed mosque Muslim Nasser Nile Nubia Oasis Octavian Old Kingdom Osiris Ottoman Empire Palestine Persian political population priesthood Ptolemy pyramid Rameses Rameses II Red Sea reign Roman Rome royal rule rulers Saqqara Suez sultan Syria Thebes throne tion tomb trade troops Tuthmosis Umayyad Upper Egypt Wafd Western Zaghloul