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STEINDORFF, GEORGE, AND SEELE, KEITH C.; SEELE, KEITH C. (REVISED BY) When Egypt Ruled the East
Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 1957, Second Edition. (ISBN: 0226771997) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xviii, 289 pp. illus. ports. maps, facsims. index; 21 cm. Good+. A few pencil marks, date in pen on half-title page, otherwise tight & clean. A classic account of Ancient Egypt and its culture. "Here, adequately presented for the first time in English, is the fascinating story of a splendid culture that flourished thirty-five hundred years ago in the empire on the Nile: kings and conquests, gods and heroes, beautiful art, sculpture, poetry, architecture. Significant archeological discoveries are constantly being made in Egypt. In this revision Professor Steele has rewritten whole chapters on the basis of these new finds and offers several new conclusions to age-old problems." - Publisher. CONTENTS: List of Illustrations; I. How the Lost Key to Ancient Egypt Was Found Again; II. The Old and Middle Kingdoms; III. The Hyksos; IV. The War of Liberation; V. The Rise of the Golden Age; VI. Western Asia in the Middle of the Second Millennium B.C.; VII. The Conquests of Thutmose III; VIII. The Golden Age: The Successors of Thutmose III; IX. The King and the Administration in the Golden Age; X. The Outside World; XI. The Egyptian Hieroglyphs; XII. The Egyptian Religion; XIII. The Art of the Egyptians; IX. Amenhotep IV-Akhnaton and the Reformation; XV. Tutankhamun and the Close of the Eighteenth Dynasty; XVI. The Age of the Ramessids; XVII. The Decline and Loss of Egyptian Independence; Outline of Egyptian History; Index of Divinities, Persons, and Peoples; Index of Places; General Index. Good.
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