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Atlas of Ancient Egypt (Cultural Atlas of)

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The first part of the book introduces a comprehensive, condensed yet accurate summary of Ancient Egyptian history. The second part presents archaeological details and plans of the main cities of Upper and Lower Egypt, as well as Nubia. The last part offers a description of Ancient Egyptian society, with its scribes, its army, its religion, and its gods. The authors have also included a list of kings and pharaohs. Readers will see how the pyramids were hypothetically built through reconstructions and diagrams. Excellent maps, a glossary and a bibliography are to be found at the end of this wonderfully illustrated book. Highly recommended, it makes a good reference for all.

You can't study history without maps, so you always need an atlas of an area. This one's text, though, is an excellent beginner to intermediate level history, so with the superb maps you may not need another reference book on the subject. Yet, even if you've been reading about ancient Egypt for years you may find some new nuggets here, like the Egyptian rather than Greco-Roman names of the cities, the latest list of pharaohs (Hatshepshut was not the only ruling queen!), articles on the pantheons of different areas, plans of cities and temples -- all kinds of juicy stuff. If you haven't got it, and you're interested, take it home!

The Atlas of Ancient Egypt has been for years one of the best popular reference works on Ancient Egypt. It gives a brief overview of Ancient Egyptian history, and then explores Egypt's most interesting archaeological sites, with many detailed maps and great pictures. An absolute must for everybody who wants to learn more about this fascinating culture.

I see this has been revised and is now entitled "Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt" which makes sense because it is really is focused on how the culture of Egypt is a reflection of the geography and natural environment and how humans learned to adapt it to them. This was one of the books we used in a course I had back at Columbia University and I've kept using it ever since. The maps are wonderful, the insets about the society are great, and the pictures both drawn and photographs of surviving artifacts are very useful. I plan on using the updated version of this for my own class on Egyptian history.

Having visited Egypt during January, 1998 and travelled through Cairo, Alexandria, El Elamein, Hurghadah to Luxor, Aswan and Abu Simbal I have found the book very interesting. Contains excellent photographs, text and explainations.

A great book for anybody proposing a trip to Egypt or having been to Egypt to re-inforce where they have been and what they have seen.

Highly recommended.

I see this has been revised and is now entitled "Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt" which makes sense because it is really is focused on how the culture of Egypt is a reflection of the geography and natural environment and how humans learned to adapt it to them. This was one of the books we used in a course I had back at Columbia University and I've kept using it ever since. The maps are wonderful, the insets about the society are great, and the pictures both drawn and photographs of surviving artifacts are very useful. I plan on using the updated version of this for my own class on Egyptian history.

I bought this book as a supplement to a course on the History of Egypt from the Learning Company (the Great Courses series) and found it just what I wanted. I was particularly interested in the maps including one showing all of the sites of pyramids throughout Egypt. Anyone who has visited or is going to visit (or just dreaming of visiting) Egypt will find this a marvelous resource.

Research on my two novels--THE WOMAN WHO WOULD BE PHARAOH, to be released by Kunati Books, May, 2009,and COME KILL THE PHARAOH, published in Germany as DER GELIEBTE DER NOFRETETE and in France under the title L'AMANT DE NEFERTITI--depended heavily on this excellent atlas. It saved me hundreds of hours of additional research, and brought into focus the geographical history of ancient Egypt. See Amazon in Germany for review.