Atlas of ancient Egypt
Text, illustrations, and maps describe the cultural background of Egypt, geography, history, and Egyptian society.
| Main Author: | Baines, John, 1946- |
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| Other Authors: | Málek, Jaromír, |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, N.Y. :
Facts on File Publications,
[©1980]
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| Physical Description: |
240 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Cultural Setting
- Geography of Ancient Egypt
- Study of Ancient Egypt
- Historical background
- Kings of Egypt
- Gallery of Kings
- Art and Architecture
- Conventions of Representation
- Tomb Stelae
- A Journey down
- Boats on the Nile
- Southern Upper Egypt
- Thebes
- John Gardner Wilkinson at Thebes
- Northern Upper Egypt
- Middle Egypt
- Memphis
- Pyramids: Types and Construction
- Lower Egypt
- The Delta
- Nubia
- Peripheral Regions
- Aspects of Egyptian Society
- Everyday Life
- Scribes and Writing
- Army
- Women and Men
- Religion
- Egyptian Pantheon
- Burial Customs
- Egypt in Western Art, by Helen Whitehouse
- Museums with Egyptian Collections
- Geographical setting of Egypt
- Nomes of Upper Egypt
- Nomes of Lower Egypt
- Population density in the Nile valley
- Delta topography
- Natural resources of ancient Egypt
- Travelers to Egypt and Sudan before 1800
- Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt
- Second cataract area in Predynastic times
- Egypt in the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period
- Egypt in the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period
- Second cataract forts of the Middle Kingdom
- Egypt in the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period
- Egypt and the Near East (c. 1530-1190 BCE)
- Egypt in the late Third Intermediate Period
- Egypt in the Late Period, with the state of Napata
- Meroe (c. 715 BCE
- 4th century CE)
- Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East in the Late Period.