A History of Egypt under the Pharaohs, Derived Entirely from the Monuments
A History of Egypt under the Pharaohs, Derived Entirely from the Monuments
Henry Danby Seymour
Philip Smith
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GBPThe most lasting achievement of the German Egyptologist Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827–94) is perhaps his work on the Egyptian demotic script, which had been relatively neglected since Champollion's death. This two-volume illustrated history of Egypt, 'derived entirely from the monuments', was first published in an English translation (by H. D. Seymour, from the 1876 first German edition, and edited by Philip Smith) in 1879. Brugsch brings to bear his wide experience of the archaeological sites together with his linguistic expertise, and deliberately eschews later Greek and Roman accounts of Egypt. Volume 2 covers the period from the Nineteenth Dynasty, the time of the empire's widest extent under Seti I and Rameses II, through the later decline and disintegration, with ruling dynasties from Nubia and Assyria, to the Persian conquest in 525 BCE. An appendix discusses the biblical account of Exodus in the context of Egyptian material remains.
Product details
May 2015Paperback
9781108084734
422 pages
215 × 140 × 27 mm
0.7kg
1 colour illus. 1 map 4 tables
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Table of Contents
- 14. The nineteenth dynasty
- 15. The twentieth dynasty
- 16. The twenty-first dynasty (the priest Hirhor and his successors)
- 17. The twenty-first dynasty, of Assyrians
- 18. The twenty-fifth dynasty
- 19. Dynasties twenty-six to thirty-one
- 20. Fall of the kingdom of the pharaohs
- Appendix
- Discourse on the Exodus and the Egyptian monuments
- Index.
