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Aidan Dodson - Amarna Sunset, Poisoned Legacy, Afterglow of Empire, & Amarna Sunrise

Title: Amarna Sunset, Poisoned Legacy, Afterglow of Empire, & Amarna Sunrise
Description: Cairo, The American University in Cairo Press, 2009-2014. First edition. Hardback. A smart four volume set of first edition texts from English Egyptologist Aidan Dodson, signed by the author. Four volumes. First editions. Each volume is signed and inscribed by the author on either the title page or dedication page to Martin Davies, a British Egyptologist, the President of the Egypt Society of Bristol and Vice-President of the Egypt Exploration Society. One of these works is also dedicated to Davies as a friend of the author. Written by Aidan Mark Dodson, an English Egyptologist and historian. This set includes: Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation, 2009. Illustrated with five maps and one hundred and one figures in-text. Collated complete. A study of the decline and fall of the Pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution of the fourteenth century BCE, tracing the subsequent collapse of his rule. Poisoned Legacy: The Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty, 2010. Illustrated with four maps and one hundred and twenty-seven in-text figures. Collated complete. Commentary of the quick decline of the Nineteenth Dynasty following the death of Ramesses II, culminating in a final civil war that ended with the accession of a new dynasty. Afterglow of Empire: Egypt from the Fall of the New Kingdom to the Saite Renaissance, 2012. Illustrated with ten maps and one hundred and thirty-four figures. Collated complete. Following the crumbling of the New Kingdom in the face of internal crises and external pressures, with the emergence of a new ruling class of Libyan ancestry. Amarna Sunrise: Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy, 2014. Illustrated with six maps and one hundred and twenty-two in-text figures. Collated complete Reviewing the latter part of the fifteenth century BCE and the zenith of Egypt's political reach. Tracing the history from the death of great warrior-king Thutmose III to the high point of Akhenaten's reign. In the original paper covered boards. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrappers are very smart with light wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Author's ink inscription to the front pages. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Amarna Sunset Sunrise Poisoned Sunset Empire Dodson Not Stated

Price: GBP 375.00 = appr. US$ 535.49 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 919T33

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