Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a CivilizationPsychology Press, 2006 - 437 síður Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, this second edition of Barry J. Kemp's popular text presents a compelling reassessment of what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics. Ranging across Ancient Egyptian material culture, social and economic experiences, and the mindset of its people, the book also includes two new chapters exploring the last ten centuries of Ancient Egyptian civilization and who, in ethnic terms, the ancients were. Fully illustrated, the book draws on both ancient written materials and decades of excavation evidence, transforming our understanding of this remarkable civilization. Broad ranging yet impressively detailed, Kemp's work is an indispensable text for all students of Ancient Egypt. |
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... land in Egypt . The striking two - fold division into valley and delta creates a natural boundary for administration particularly when viewed from Cairo or its ancient forebear , the city of Memphis . The ancient Egyptians recognized ...
... land over 400 metres land over 700 metres Dara Asyut Qau Akhmim Abydos Dendera احد Nagada Coptos Medamud Armant Luxor ( Thebes ) Esna Kharga Oasis El - Kab Hierakonpolis 100 200 kilometres Edfu Kom Ombo Elephantine Aswan Figure 1 Map of ...
... land - bridge to Asia across the Sinai Peninsula . The arable lands of valley and delta today present a flat , unvarying landscape of inten- sively cultivated fields , crossed by irrigation and drainage canals , and studded with towns ...
... land management . The state remained very interested in the annual yield of the land for the purpose of collecting rents and taxes : this much is clear from ample written sources . But the same sources say little or nothing about ...
... land out of reach of the flood , and confined to vegetable- and flower - beds and orchards maintained all the year round . This evidence serves to reinforce the argument that main - crop cereal agriculture was a matter of a single ...
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Who were the ancient Egyptians? | 19 |
The intellectual foundations of the early state | 60 |
The dynamics of culture | 111 |
The provider state | 161 |
The bureaucratic mind | 163 |
Model communities | 193 |
Intimations of our future | 245 |
New Kingdom Egypt the mature state | 247 |
The birth of economic man | 302 |
Moving on | 336 |
Epilogue | 387 |
Notes | 389 |
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