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By Robert L. Tignor

This is a sweeping, colourful, and concise narrative heritage of Egypt from the start of human payment within the Nile River valley 5000 years in the past to the current day. obtainable, authoritative, and richly illustrated, this is often an excellent creation and consultant to Egypt's lengthy, fabulous, and complicated heritage for normal readers, travelers, and somebody else who wishes a greater realizing of this shiny and interesting state, person who has performed a relevant position in international background for millennia--and that keeps to take action today.

revered historian Robert Tignor, who has lived in Egypt at various instances over the process 5 many years, covers the entire significant eras of the country's old, glossy, and up to date heritage. A cradle of civilization, historical Egypt constructed a special and influential tradition that featured a centralized monarchy, refined artwork and expertise, and huge structure within the kind of pyramids and temples. however the nice age of the pharaohs is simply the start of the tale and Egypt: a quick History additionally offers a wealthy account of the tumultuous background that followed--from Greek and Roman conquests, the increase of Christianity, Arab-Muslim triumph, and Egypt's incorporation into robust Islamic empires to Napoleon's 1798 invasion, the country's absorption into the British Empire, and sleek, postcolonial Egypt lower than Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak.

This booklet offers an quintessential key to Egypt in all its layers--ancient and smooth, Greek and Roman, and Christian and Islamic. In a brand new afterword the writer analyzes the new unrest in Egypt and weighs in on what the rustic may perhaps appear like after Mubarak.

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Manetho’s writings were lost and have come down to us only through the works of later commentators; yet his identification of thirty-one Egyptian dynasties from the first unification of Egypt around 3100 BCE to the conquest by Alexander in 332 has stood the test of time. Manetho’s chronology remained the most widely used method for periodizing pharaonic history until the nineteenth century, when scholars introduced new, and what for them were more helpful, ways to periodize the history of the ancients.

Just as the people of Western Europe looked back to the Roman Empire after its fall, so the peoples of Egypt remembered the glories of the pharaonic centuries even after the last of the pharaohs had gone and even after the ancient language had been lost. For many centuries they tried to re-create this way of life. Egypt’s early conquerors, the Greeks and Romans, brought new ideas and new institutions, but they, too, admired the elegance and stability of ancient Egyptian civilization and wanted to retain much from these centuries.

They also constitute the oldest religious writings and literature of the ancient Egyptians and provide an invaluable window into the spiritual lives and the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians. ” They also reveal just how deeply indebted the great monotheistic religions of the Near East (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) were to the ethical tenets of their Egyptian predecessors. The pyramid texts, as they are known today, stressed filial piety and extolled righteous and orderly behavior. The virtue that they most frequently underscored was encapsulated in the Egyptian word maat, which many have translated as righteousness, justice, and truth.

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