The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

by Shaw, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780198150343
• ISBN10: 0198150342
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Illustrated History of Ancient Egypt is the only up-to-date,single-volume history of ancient Egypt available in English. The accessibleessays and attractive illustrations portray the emergence and development of thedistinctive civilization of the ancient Egyptians, from their prehistoricorigins to their incorporation into the Roman Empire, covering the period fromc. 700,000 BC AD 311. The authors each experts working at the cutting edge oftheir particular fields outline the principal sequence of political events,including detailed examinations of the three so-called 'intermediate periods'which were previously regarded as 'dark ages' and are only now beginning to bebetter understood.Against the backdrop of the rise and fall of ruling dynasties, this OxfordIllustrated History also examines cultural and social patterns, includingstylistic developments in art and literature. The pace of change in such aspectsof Egyptian culture as monumental architecture, funerary beliefs, and ethnicitywas not necessarily tied to the rate of political change. Each of the authors ofthis history has therefore set out to elucidate, in both words and pictures, theunderlying patterns of social and political change and to describe the changingface of ancient Egypt, from the biographical details of individuals to thesocial and economic factors that shaped the lives of the population as awhole.

Author Biography

Ian Shaw is Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London.

Table of Contents

List of Colour Plates	xi
List of Maps and Plans	xiv
List of Contributors	xv
Introduction: Chronologies and Cultural Change in Egypt	1	(16)
Ian Shaw
Prehistory: From the Palaeolithic to the Badarian Culture (c.700,000-4000 BC)	17	(27)
Stan Hendrickx
Pierre Vermeersch
The Naqada Period (c.4000-3200 BC)	44	(17)
Beatrix Midant-Reynes
The Emergence of the Egyptian State (c.3200-2686 BC)	61	(28)
Kathryn A. Bard
The Old Kingdom (c.2686-2125 BC)	89	(29)
Jaromir Malek
The First Intermediate Period (c.2160-2055 BC)	118	(30)
Stephan Seidlmayer
The Middle Kingdom Renaissance (c.2055-1650 BC)	148	(36)
Gae Callender
The Second Intermediate Period (c.1650-1550 BC)	184	(34)
Janine Bourriau
The 18th Dynasty before the Amarna Period (c.1550-1352 BC)	218	(54)
Betsy M. Bryan
The Amarna Period and the Later New Kingdom (c.1352-1069 BC)	272	(42)
Jacobus Van Dijk
Egypt and the Outside World	314	(16)
Ian Shaw
The Third Intermediate Period (1069-664 BC)	330	(39)
John Taylor
The Late Period (664-332 BC)	369	(26)
Alan B. Lloyd
The Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BC)	395	(27)
Alan B. Lloyd
The Roman Period (30 BC-AD 395)	422	(24)
David Peacock
Epilogue	446	(1)
Further Reading	447	(26)
Glossary	473	(6)
Chronology	479	(6)
Illustration Sources	485	(4)
Index	489