The Rough Guide History of Egypt

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Rough 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
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