Toby A. H. Wilkinson - The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Toby A. H. Wilkinson - The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Published: 2011-03-15 | ISBN: 0553805533 | EPUB / MOBI / PDF | 656 pages | 76 MB / 48 MB / 33 MB
In
this landmark work, one of the world’s most renowned Egyptologists
tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the
first nation-state to its final absorption into the Roman Empire—three
thousand years of wild drama, bold spectacle, and unforgettable
characters.
Award-winning scholar
Toby Wilkinson captures not only the lavish pomp and artistic grandeur
of this land of pyramids and pharaohs but for the first time reveals the
constant propaganda and repression that were its foundations. Drawing
upon forty years of archaeological research, Wilkinson takes us inside
an exotic tribal society with a pre-monetary economy and decadent,
divine kings who ruled with all-too-recognizable human emotions.
Here
are the years of the Old Kingdom, where Pepi II, made king as an
infant, was later undermined by rumors of his affair with an army
general, and the Middle Kingdom, a golden age of literature and jewelry
in which the benefits of the afterlife became available for all, not
just royalty—a concept later underlying Christianity. Wilkinson then
explores the legendary era of the New Kingdom, a lost world of
breathtaking opulence founded by Ahmose, whose parents were siblings,
and who married his sister and transformed worship of his family into a
national cult. Other leaders include Akhenaten, the “heretic king,” who
with his wife Nefertiti brought about a revolution with a bold new
religion; his son Tutankhamun, whose dazzling tomb would remain hidden
for three millennia; and eleven pharaohs called Ramesses, the last of
whom presided over the militarism, lawlessness, and corruption that
caused a crucial political and societal decline.
Riveting
and revelatory, filled with new information and unique interpretations,
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt will become the standard source
about this great civilization, one that lasted—so far—longer than any
other.
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