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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS A History Of Egypt : From The Earliest Times To The Persian Conquest by James Henry Breasted
The American archaeologist James H. Breasted 1865-1935 published this history in 1906. His intention was to create a one-volume work which would be suitable for the increasing number of tourists visiting the Nile valley, for those interested in the rise of Greek and Roman civilisation, and for students of the Old Testament. Drawing on Breasteds own four-volume Records of Egypt, which contains fresh readings and translations of almost all of the ancient Egyptian historical inscriptions available at the time, the book follows the conventional chronology from earliest Egypt to the Old Kingdom and the Middle Kingdom, characterised as a feudal age, the intermediate period of the Hyksos, and the New Kingdom, described here as the Empire. The account ends with the Decadence, invasions by Libyans and Nubians, and the Persian conquest after the battle of Pelusium in 525 BCE. The book contains nearly 200 photographs and drawings.show more