A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 2: From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom - Softcover

Romer, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141399724 ISBN 13: 9780141399720

Publisher: Penguin, 2017

Synopsis

This definitive, multi-volume history of the world's first known state reveals that much of what we have been taught about Ancient Egypt is the product of narrow-minded visions of the past

Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a peak of Pharaonic culture and the period when writing first flourished. He reveals how the grand narratives of nineteenth and twentieth-century Egyptologists have misled us by portraying a culture of cruel monarchs and chronic war. Instead, based in part on discoveries of the past two decades, this extraordinary account shows what we can really learn from the remaining architecture, objects and writing: a history based on physical reality.

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Review:

Evocative and passionate ... [Romer] has a command of material and of language that makes this a fascinating tale ... Magisterial (Anthony Sattin Spectator)

From the Back Cover:

The extraordinary era between Egypt's Great Pyramid and the fall of the Middle Kingdom was a golden age, encompassing its greatest literary and artistic achievements. Using a wealth of fresh discoveries, the second volume of John Romer's epic history of ancient Egypt reshapes our understanding of the world's first-known state.

'Romer's evocative and surprisingly passionate descriptions of the Middle Kingdom, with its glorious court, thriving international trade and bountiful Nile, have a sense of idyll about them' Anthony Sattin, Spectator

'Romer can communicate like no one else, his affinity with his subject fuelled by half a century living and working alongside the ancient Egyptians ... his writings remain an inspiration' Joann Fletcher, BBC History Magazine

'An author and historian who truly grasps the mysteries of ancient Egypt' Kirkus Review

'This is an essential re-envisioning of ancient Egypt' Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0141399724
• ISBN 13: 9780141399720
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 672