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Through their art and monuments the ancient Egyptians presented themselves as they would like to be remembered. Mostly their art tells the story of men, especially rich and powerful leaders, But a more careful investigation shows also how women spent their lives, working in groups, weaving, baking, and keeping the family group together. Other women became entertainers, managers or priestesses, living outside the family group, holding positions of responsibility. And just a few names have come down to us of women who defied tradition and briefly ruled one of the greatest of the ancient civilizations. In this book quotes from pieces of writing, ancient artefacts and case studies reveal the important roles that some women played in the history of Ancient Egypt. A few like Queen Nefertiti and Cleopatra, changed the course of history. ... Read more

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Egypt. Geography of Egypt, Ancient Egypt, History of Egypt, Egyptians, Egyptian Revolution of 1952, Human rights in Egypt, Foreign relations of Egypt, Economy of Egypt, Demographics of Egypt, Culture of Egypt, ilitary of Egypt, Outline of Egypt ... Read more

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Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization in easternNorth Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern nation of Egypt. The civilization began around 3150 BC[1] with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, and it developed over the next threemillennia.[2] Its history occurred in a series of stable periods,known as kingdoms, separated by periods of relativeinstability known as Intermediate Periods. After the end of the last kingdom, known as the New Kingdom, the civilization of ancient Egypt entered a period of slow, steady decline, during which Egypt was conquered by a succession offoreign powers. The rule of the pharaohs officially ended in31 BC when the early Roman Empire conquered Egypt and madeit a province. ... Read more

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Not for Egyptologists
This book is NOT a serious source of information for scholars, students or people simply curious about this particular period in ancient history. It was not put together by scholars, historians, Egyptologists or people who are at all knowledgeable about ANY period of Egyptian history.

This volume is literally a bunch of articles literally copied and pasted off Wikipedia literally as is, with literally no clean-up of text or anything else. Literally. The text is very clunky since it was not cleaned up or formatted properly. You can see arrows where on Wikipedia there were links, as well as 'citation needed' and other html markup. Foreign language text along with symbols (i.e. certain math symbols and the like) are also missing from the printed text in this book.

There's nothing with with Wikipedia itself. It's a lovely source of free information, but it needs to be taken with a grain of salt due to vandals and people posting - intentionally or not - inaccurate information. To exacerbate the problem, the original subject of this book actually only makes up part of this volume. If you've read Wikipedia, you are familiar with how some words within the article provide links to other articles (for those curious and wishing to expand their research/reading) and while this can be helpful, not all of the links within any particular Wikipedia article are too relevant to the original subject matter. There is also often a list of other articles at the bottom of any Wikipedia article that are 'See also...' but these articles vary in relevance. Sadly, the 'editors' of this book simply click these links and copy and paste these articles, whether or not they're truly relevant (or even related) to the original subject matter.

One prime example is the fact that the Wikipedia article 'Geography of Egypt' is included in here - but it's a map/geography of CURRENT Egypt, NOT Ancient Egypt!

The pictures within this book are also poor-quality, shrunk down from their original versions on Wikipedia and made black-and-white. Diagrams and other technical images therefore become near impossible to read or study. The size of the actual book itself isn't very large, and is about the size of a larger-size paperback, and the text itself is actually hard to read on top of being poorly formatted (some pages actually have rather large gaps/blank spaces)

You're better off reading the original article(s) about Ancient Egypt on Wikipedia for free, and if you wish for longer and more relevant books on Egyptian history, you can look right here on Amazon for books written and edited by people who are genuinely passionate and knowledgeable about ancient history. ... Read more

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The Geography of Egypt can be split into two sections. Southwest Asia and North Africa. Egypt has shorelines on the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. It borders Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east. Egypt, covering 1,001,449 square kilometers of land, is about the same size as Texas and New Mexico combined, four times the size of the UK and double that of France. Its longest distance from north to south is 1,024 kilometers, and from east to west is 1,240 kilometers. Egypt's natural boundaries consist of more than 2,900 kilometers of coastline along the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. ... Read more

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Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization in easternNorth Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern nation of Egypt. The civilization began around 3150 BC[1] with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, and it developed over the next threemillennia.[2] Its history occurred in a series of stable periods,known as kingdoms, separated by periods of relativeinstability known as Intermediate Periods. After the end of the last kingdom, known as the New Kingdom, the civilization of ancient Egypt entered a period of slow, steady decline, during which Egypt was conquered by a succession offoreign powers. The rule of the pharaohs officially ended in31 BC when the early Roman Empire conquered Egypt and madeit a province. ... Read more

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Not a good book
This book is NOT a serious source of information for scholars or people simply curious about Ancient Egypt. Most of the material in here is actually outdated.

This volume is literally a bunch of articles literally copied and pasted off Wikipedia literally as is, with literally no clean-up of text or anything else. Literally. The text is very clunky since it was not cleaned up or formatted properly. You can see arrows where on Wikipedia there were links, as well as 'citation needed' and other html markup. Foreign language text along with symbols (i.e. certain math symbols and the like) are also missing from the printed text in this book.

There's nothing with with Wikipedia itself. It's a lovely source of free information, but it needs to be taken with a grain of salt due to vandals and people posting - intentionally or not - inaccurate information. To exacerbate the problem, the original subject of this book actually only makes up part of this volume. If you've read Wikipedia, you are familiar with how some words within the article provide links to other articles (for those curious and wishing to expand their research/reading) and while this can be helpful, not all of the links within any particular Wikipedia article are too relevant to the original subject matter. There is also often a list of other articles at the bottom of any Wikipedia article that are 'See also...' but these articles vary in relevance. Sadly, the 'editors' of this book simply click these links and copy and paste these articles, whether or not they're truly relevant (or even related) to the original subject matter.

The pictures within this book are also poor-quality, shrunk down from their original versions on Wikipedia and made black-and-white. Diagrams and other technical images therefore become near impossible to read or study. The size of the actual book itself isn't very large, and is about the size of a larger-size paperback, and the text itself is actually hard to read on top of being poorly formatted (some pages actually have rather large gaps/blank spaces)

You're better off reading the original article (and related matters) on Ancient Egypt on Wikipedia for free. Heck, you can find plenty of high0quality Egyptian history books here on Amazon.

Only A Remix
Be aware that Cyril Aldred died in 1991.This way over-priced book doubtlessly is nothing more than a recompilation of the works he published during his lifetime, some dating back to the 1940s and therefore out-of-date by now. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington in 1881 in 265 pages; Subjects: Egypt; Civil society; History / General; History / Ancient / Egypt; History / Middle East / Egypt; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Middle East; Travel / Middle East / Egypt; ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more