The Oxford Illustrated History of Ancient Egypt

by Shaw, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780192802934
• ISBN10: 0192802933
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Illustrated History of Ancient Egypt is the only book available providing detailed historical coverage of Egypt from the early Stone Age to its incorporation into the Roman Empire. The lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of the distinctive civilization of the ancient Egyptians covering the period from 700,000 BC to AD 311. Against the backdrop of the rise and fall of ruling dynasties, this book also examines cultural and social patterns, including stylistic developments in art and literature. The pace of change in such aspects of Egyptian culture as monumental architecture, funerary beliefs, and ethnicity was not necessarily tied to the rate of political change. Each of the authors--working at the cutting edge of their particular fields--has therefore set out to elucidate, in both words and pictures, the underlying patterns of social and political change, and to describe the changing face of ancient Egypt, from the biographical details of individuals to the social and economic factors that shaped the lives of the population as a whole.

Author Biography

Ian Shaw is Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Liverpool.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	p. xi
List of Maps and Plans	p. xiii
List of Contributors	p. xv
Introduction: Chronologies and Cultural Change in Egypt	p. 1
Prehistory: From the Palaeolithic to the Badarian Culture (c.700,000-4000 BC)	p. 16
The Naqada Period (c.4000-3200 BC)	p. 41
The Emergence of the Egyptian State (c.3200-2686 BC)	p. 57
The Old Kingdom (c.2686-2160 BC)	p. 83
The First Intermediate Period (c.2160-2055 BC)	p. 108
The Middle Kingdom Renaissance (c.2055-1650 BC)	p. 137
The Second Intermediate Period (c.1650-1550 BC)	p. 172
The 18th Dynasty before the Amarna Period (c.1550-1352 BC)	p. 207
The Amarna Period and the Later New Kingdom (c.1352-1069 BC)	p. 265
Egypt and the Outside World	p. 308
The Third Intermediate Period (1069-664 BC)	p. 324
The Late Period (664-332 BC)	p. 364
The Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BC)	p. 388
The Roman Period (30 BC-AD 395)	p. 414
Epilogue	p. 437
Further Reading	p. 438
Glossary	p. 472
Chronology	p. 480
Index	p. 491
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