Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a CivilizationPsychology Press, 2006 - 437 pages Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, this second edition of Barry J. Kemp's popular text presents a compelling reassessment of what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics. Ranging across Ancient Egyptian material culture, social and economic experiences, and the mindset of its people, the book also includes two new chapters exploring the last ten centuries of Ancient Egyptian civilization and who, in ethnic terms, the ancients were. Fully illustrated, the book draws on both ancient written materials and decades of excavation evidence, transforming our understanding of this remarkable civilization. Broad ranging yet impressively detailed, Kemp's work is an indispensable text for all students of Ancient Egypt. |
From inside the book
... century , the current stock might well represent most of what we will ever have . The Egyptian setting in space and time Egypt's civilization developed in one of the largest arid desert areas in the world , larger than the whole of ...
... century AD this annual surge has increas- ingly been held back and controlled by a series of dams . Before that it was sufficient to flood the Egyptian valley and delta , transforming the country into a long shallow lake , towns and ...
... century . From L. Borchardt and H. Ricke , Egypt : architecture , landscape , life of the people , London , 1930 , 120 . The answer appears to be : not very far at all . The need was not there . The idea of using the fertile land to ...
... centuries . Modern Egypt is an Arabic - speaking country , predominantly Islamic in religion , and secular in laws and institutions , the product of thirteen hundred years of Arab and Ottoman rule and influence since the first Arab ...
... centuries of Pharaonic rule , some written from within the country . In the early days of Egyptology one of the ... century BC by an Egyptian priest , Manetho . Despite inaccuracies introduced by copyists , Manetho's access to temple ...
Contents
Who were the ancient Egyptians? | 19 |
The intellectual foundations of the early state | 60 |
The dynamics of culture | 111 |
The provider state | 161 |
The bureaucratic mind | 163 |
Model communities | 193 |
Intimations of our future | 245 |