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Title: Rise & Fall of Ancient Egypt, The: The History of a Civilization from 3000BC to Cleopatra
Author: WILKINSON TOBY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/11/2011
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
This is a story studded with extraordinary achievements and historic moments, from the building of the pyramids and the conquest of Nubia, through Akhenaten’s religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the glory of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber, and the ruthlessness of Ramesses, to Alexander the Great’s invasion, and Cleopatra’s fatal entanglement with Rome.
As the world’s first nation-state, the history of Ancient Egypt is above all the story of the attempt to unite a disparate realm and defend it against hostile forces from within and without. Combining grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconography of power, Toby Wilkinson reveals Ancient Egypt in all its complexity.
ISBN: 9781408810026
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 672