[A History of Ancient Egypt 01] • A History of Ancient Egypt by Romer, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Contents Dedication Preface Part One: Making Culture (5000–3000 BC)

1. Beside the Pale Lake Living in the Faiyum, c. 5000–4000 BC

The Nile Year Measured Lives

2. Sickle Sheen Most Ancient Egypt and the Neolithic

‘Egyptianness’

3. Merimda and el-Omari Lower Egypt, 4800–4300 BC

The Cemeteries of el-Omari The Merimda Head The Big Mistake A Neolithic Revolution? The Character of Change

4. The Badarians Middle Egypt, 4400–4000 BC

Badarian Pottery Badarian Landscapes Pots and History The Living People The Burial of the Dead

5. Black-topped, White-lined Life in Upper Egypt, 4000–3500 BC

The Graphic Image Settling and Herding Naqada, Abydos and Hierakonpolis

6. A Cloud across the Moon Death in Upper Egypt, 4000–3200 BC

The Oval Court Great Tombs

7. Boats and Donkeys Copper, Trade and Influence within the Lower Nile Valley, 3500–3000 BC

Boats and Pots Maadi–Buto: Import-Export

8. Rolling Along Of Men and Monsters, 3500–3000 BC

New Space New Forms

Part Two: Making Pharaoh (3200–3000 BC)

9. Scorpion and Hawk 3200–3000 BC

The Wine-Rich Tomb

10. The Coming of the King The Origins of Hieroglyphs, c. 3000 BC

Interpretations On the Origins of Hieroglyphics

11. Narmer’s Palette The Qualities of Kings, c. 3000 BC

Purposes and Meanings

12. The Hawk upon the Wall History, Land and Naqadan Resettlement, 3500–3000 BC

Migrations

13. Taking Wing Naqadan Emigration, 3500–3000 BC

Into the Delta Into the Levant Into Nubia

14. Taking Stock Ordering and Accounting within the Early State

Counting and Accounting The Order of the State

15. The Shadows of Birds Rite and Sacrifice within the Early State

Tithe and Ceremonial Sacred and Profane

Part Three: Making a Kingdom (3000–2650 BC)

16. The Serekh Tomb The Story of the Naqada Mastaba, c. 3000 BC

Uruk in Egypt

17. A Line of Kings The First Dynasty Royal Tombs, 3000–2825 BC

Reconstructing Ancient Abydos Histories and Kings Aigyptiaka: Manetho and the Dynasties

18. The Lost Dynasty Fake Histories, Real Lives: Dynasty Two, 2825–2675 BC

Let me call you Sweetheart? From Anthroponomy to History Aswan 1 – 2 – 3

19. The Wheeling Hawk Refining Egypt: Dynasties One, Two and Three

Trading Clichés The Material World Before and After

20. The Realms of Pharaoh Dynasties One and Three

The Politics of Sacrifice King Djet’s Comb Tithe and Sacrifice

21. Two Gentlemen of Saqqara Merka and Hesi-re: Dynasties One and Three

Merka Mariette and Hesi-re Order and the Court Constancy and Change Ars Brevis

Part Four: Step Pyramid (2675–2650 BC)

22. Djoser’s Kingdom

Djoser and History The Switch to Stone To Make a Pyramid Antiquarian

23. Heb Sediana Visions of the Pyramid

The Egyptian Leonardo Forms and Functions

24. Deus Absconditus The Hidden God

The Demesne of the Shrine

25. In Consequence The Pyramid’s Effect

Part Five: Building Ancient Egypt (2650–2550 BC)

26. A Diadem of Pyramids 2650–2625 BC

In the Provinces

27. Court and Country Metjen and the Early Reign of Sneferu, 2625–2600 BC

The Meanings of Words

28. High Society Sneferu at Maidum, 2625–2600 BC

Country Life Life and Death at Maidum The State in Life and Death Offering at the Pyramid Annals

29. A Building Passion Sneferu at Dahshur, 2600–2575 BC

A History in Stone Building the Machine Running the Machine

30. Making the Gods Deity at Dahshur, 2600–2575 BC

In the Image of the King The Place of Kings

31. The Perfect Pyramid Khufu and Giza, 2575–2550 BC

Imagining the Pyramid The State Machine After the Pyramid The Tomb of Khufu’s Mother

Chronology Bibliography List of Maps and Figures Index A History of Ancient Egypt Volume 2 Copyright

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