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Introduction/Foreword
Prehistory
- Egypt's path to advanced
civilization
Early
History
- The rise of the state to
the second dynasty
Old
Kingdom
- The political history of
the third to eighth dynasties
- Royal tombs from the age
of the pyramids
- Daily life in
eternity--the mastabas and rock-cut tombs of officials
- Living images--the private
statues
Middle
Kingdom
- The political history from
the ninth to the seventeenth dynasties
- The tombs of the
pharaohs--between tradition and innovation
- A house for eternity--the
tombs of governors and officials
- Between heaven and
earth--temples to the gods in the Middle Kingdom
New
Kingdom
- The political history of
the eighteenth to twentieth dynasties
- The temples--royal gods
and divine kings
- The valley of the kings
- The valley of the queens
- Overcoming death--the
private tombs of Thebes
- The hidden tombs of
Memphis
Late
Period
- Tanis and Thebes--the
political history of the twenty-first to thirtieth
dynasties
- Assimilating the past--the
art of the late period
Greco-Roman
Period
- The political history of
the Ptolemies and the imperial Roman period in Egypt
- A world order in
stone--the late temples
- Tomb and burial customs
after Alexander the Great
State
and Society
- Sacred kinship
- Beauty and perfection--pharaonic
art
- The royal administration
and its organization
- The military
- Economy and trade
- Gifts of the Nile--the
agriculture of a river oasis
- Houses, cities, and
palaces--ancient Egyptian lifestyles
- Daily life in the
home--the house as living area
- Stones and quarries
Gods,
Cults, and the Kingdom of the Dead
- A different
world--religious conceptions
- Gods and deities
- Conceptions of the
cosmos--the universe
- Royal and divine festivals
- mummification
- The burial
- The mortuary cult
Investigations
in the Nile Valley
- Travelers, correspondents,
and scholars--images of Egypt through the Millennia
- The responsibilities of
archaeology--recent excavations
Appendix
- Glossary, gods of ancient Egypt,
list of historic sites, Egyptian collections, rulers of Egypt,
chronological synopsis, selected bibliography
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EGYPT:
THE LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
edited by
Regine Schulz and
Matthias Seidel
is not just a coffee table book--it's the coffee
table itself. The book is enormous: 538 over-sized pages, 40
chapters, and too many photos and illustrations to count (over 800).