FROM THE FIRST PHARAOHS TO CLEOPATRA
KINGDOM OF THE NILE
A History of Ancient Egypt and the Pyramids
HISTORY / ANCIENT / EGYPTThree thousand years on the river. The oldest wonder of them all.
“The Egyptians wanted to live forever. In the only way truly open to them, they have.”
About This Book
For three thousand years — longer than any other civilization the world has known — the kingdom of the Nile endured. The Great Pyramid was already ancient when Tutankhamun was born, and older still when Cleopatra died.
This is the whole sweep, told in a single volume: the gift of the river and the first pharaohs; the Pyramid Age of Khufu and the Giza plateau; the heretic Akhenaten and his queen Nefertiti; the boy-king and the golden mask; the conqueror Thutmose and the builder Ramesses; the long twilight under foreign kings and the death of the last pharaoh. And finally the rediscovery — Napoleon's savants, the Rosetta Stone, Champollion's flash of genius, and Carter's wonderful things.
Sober, sourced, and sweeping, this is the definitive popular history of how a narrow strip of black earth beside a river became the most enduring civilization in human history — and how, after fourteen centuries of silence, the modern world learned to hear it speak again.
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