The Oxford history of ancient Egypt / edited by Ian Shaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaw, Ian, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egypt--History--To 640 A.D.

Egypt.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 525 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

Edition:

New edition.

Other Title:

Ancient Egypt

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

"brimming with ... intriguing facts ... also provides a first-rate overview of - le progr??'s Egyptien - from the period when Homo erectus first stalked the land right up to Octavian's triumphant entry into Egypt in 30 BC."--Douglas Kennedy, The Times

Contents:

Introduction : chronologies and cultural change in Egypt / Ian Shaw

Prehistory : from the Palaeolithic to the Badarian culture (c. 700,000-4000 BC / Stan Hendrickx and Pierre Vermeersch

The Naqada period (c. 4000-3200 BC) / Béatrix Midant-Reynes

The emergence of the Egyptian state (c. 3200-2686 BC) / Kathryn A. Bard

The Old Kingdom (c. 2686-2125 BC) / Jaromir Malek

The First Intermediate period (c. 2160-2055 BC) / Stephan Seidlmayer

The Middle Kingdom renaissance (c. 2055-1650 BC) / Gae Callender

The Second Intermediate period (c. 1650-1550 BC) / Janine Bourriau

The 18th dynasty before the Amarna period (c. 1550-1352 BC) / Betsy M. Bryan

The Amarna period and the Later New Kingdom (c. 1352-1069 BC) / Jacobus Van Dijk

Egypt and the outside world / Ian Shaw

The Third Intermediate period (1069-664 BC) / John Taylor

The Late period (664-332 BC) / Alan B. Lloyd

The Ptolemaic period (332-30 BC) / Alan B. Lloyd

The Roman period (30 BC-AD 395) / David Peacock.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-471) and index.

ISBN:

0192804588

OCLC:

54081934