Ancient Egypt

George Rawlinson

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9781463213015
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Egyptian Ancient History
• Index: History

Rawlinson's study of ancient Egypt surveys the land and people of Egypt before taking the development of the nation through historic chapters. Told in a level of detail to rival Breasted's classic work on Egypt, this earlier study makes fascinating reading.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• I. THE LAND OF EGYPT
• II. THE PEOPLE OF EGYPT
• III. THE DAWN OF HISTORY
• IV. THE PYRAMID BUILDERS
• V. THE RISE OF THEBES TO POWER, AND THE EARLY THEBAN KINGS
• VI. THE GOOD AMENEMHAT AND HIS WORKS
• VII. ABRAHAM IN EGYPT
• VIII. THE GREAT INVASION—THE IIYKSÖS OR SHEPHERD KINGS—JOSEPH AND APEPI
• IX. HOW THE HYKSÖS WERE EXPELLED FROM EGYPT
• X. THOTHMES I., THE FIRST GREAT EGYPTIAN CONQUEROR
• XI. QUEEN HATASU AND HER MERCHANT FLEET
• XII. THOTHMES THE THIRD AND AMENHOTEP THE SECOND
• XIII. AMENHOTEP III. AND HIS GREAT WORKS — THE VOCAL MEMNON
• XIV. KHUENATEN AND THE DISK-WORSHIPPERS
• XV. BEGINNING OF THE DECLINE OF EGYPT
• XVI. MENEPHTHA I., THE PHARAOH OF THE EXODUS
• XVII. THE DECLINE OF EGYPT UNDER THE LATER RAMESSIDES
• XVIII. THE PRIEST-KINGS—PINETEM AND SOLOMON
• XIX. SHISHAK AND HIS DYNASTY
• XX. THE LAND SHADOWING WITH WINGS—EGYPT UNDER THE ETHIOPIANS
• XXI. THE FIGHT OVER THE CARCASE—ETHIOPIA V. ASSYRIA
• XXII. THE CORPSE COMES TO LIFE AGAIN—PSAMATIK I. AND HIS SON NECO
• XXIII. THE LATER SAITE KINGS.—PSAMATIK II., APRIES, AND AMASIS
• XXIV. THE PERSIAN CONQUEST
• XXV. THREE DESPERATE REVOLTS
• XXVI. A LAST GLEAM OF SUNSHINE—NECTANEBO I
• XXVII. THE LIGHT GOES OUT IN DARKNESS
• INDEX