Ancient Egypt
by Silverman, David P.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-06-05
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Ancient Egypt is an authoritative and vividly written guide to the main themes of the ancient Egyptian world, from the lives of the pharaohs and the building of the pyramids to the fascinating language of hieroglyphs. It covers all the major aspects of this powerful civilization - historical, religious, artistic, scientific and mythological. Superbly illustrated, Ancient Egypt brings the world of the pharaohs to life as never before. Book jacket.
Author Biography
David P. Silverman is currently Curator-in-Charge of the Egyptian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and Chairman of the university's Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. His many previous books include Language and Writing in Ancient Egypt, Religion in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egyptian Kingship, and Masterpieces of Tutankhamun. His fieldwork includes the co-directorship of the University of Pennsylvania/Boston Museum of Fine Arts expedition to record the tombs of the Old and Middle Kingdoms (ca. 2625-1530 BCE).
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 6 |
| The Egyptian World | p. 8 |
| The Gift of the Nile | p. 10 |
| The River in the Sand | p. 10 |
| Map: The Nile Delta in ancient times | p. 11 |
| The Nurturing Waters | p. 12 |
| Map: The Nile flood | p. 13 |
| The Great Highway | p. 16 |
| Map: Egypt and the Nile | p. 17 |
| A Landscape of the Mind | p. 18 |
| Three Kingdoms and Thirty-Four Dynasties | p. 20 |
| "Most Ancient Egypt" | p. 20 |
| The First Nation-State | p. 22 |
| The Zenith of the Unitary State | p. 24 |
| The First Challenge to Unity | p. 26 |
| Map: The 42 provinces of ancient Egypt | p. 27 |
| The Glorious Twelfth Dynasty | p. 28 |
| A Second Unravelling | p. 30 |
| From Recovery to Empire | p. 32 |
| Disunity and Foreign Rule | p. 36 |
| A Conquered Kingdom | p. 38 |
| Egypt and the World Beyond | p. 40 |
| The Fear of Horus in the South | p. 40 |
| Egypt and Asia | p. 42 |
| Egypt and the Mediterranean | p. 44 |
| Map: Invasions of the "Peoples of the Sea" and "Labu" | p. 45 |
| Map: The Ptolemaic empire | p. 46 |
| International Trade and Travel | p. 48 |
| Map: Egypt and its trade network | p. 49 |
| The Grip of Empire | p. 50 |
| Map: The Egyptian empire in the New Kingdom | p. 50 |
| The Cosmopolitan Realm | p. 52 |
| The Minelands of the Sovereign | p. 54 |
| Egypt's Legacy | p. 55 |
| The Wealth of the Land | p. 58 |
| The First Farmers | p. 58 |
| Living off the Land | p. 60 |
| Hunting, Fishing, Fowling and Foraging | p. 62 |
| Egypt's Mineral Wealth | p. 64 |
| Map: Egypt's mineral resources | p. 65 |
| Managing the Economy | p. 66 |
| The Settled World | p. 68 |
| The Rise of Urban Life | p. 68 |
| Map: Hierakonpolis ca. 4000 3100BCE | p. 69 |
| Towns and Houses | p. 70 |
| Capital Cities | p. 74 |
| Map: Capital cities of ancient Egypt | p. 74 |
| Royal Palaces | p. 76 |
| Fortresses | p. 78 |
| Women in Egypt | p. 80 |
| Gender and Society | p. 80 |
| Roles and Images | p. 82 |
| The Family | p. 84 |
| Women and Religion | p. 86 |
| Royal Women | p. 88 |
| The Boundaries of Knowledge | p. 90 |
| The Teaching of Knowledge | p. 90 |
| The Natural World | p. 92 |
| Mathematics | p. 94 |
| Medicine | p. 96 |
| Technology | p. 98 |
| Magic | p. 100 |
| The Arts | p. 102 |
| Belief and Ritual | p. 104 |
| The Lord of the Two Lands | p. 106 |
| The Origins of Kingship | p. 106 |
| The God-King on Earth | p. 108 |
| The Pharaoh after Death | p. 110 |
| Human or Divine? | p. 112 |
| The Celestial Realm | p. 114 |
| The Egyptian Cosmos | p. 114 |
| The Heavenly Domain | p. 116 |
| The Solar Cycle | p. 118 |
| "Before Two Things" | p. 120 |
| The One and the Many | p. 122 |
| The Word of God | p. 124 |
| Amun the Unknowable | p. 126 |
| The Heresy of Akhenaten | p. 128 |
| The Human Sphere | p. 130 |
| The Cult of the Dead | p. 132 |
| Attitudes to Death | p. 132 |
| The Theology of Death: Isis and Osiris | p. 134 |
| Funerary Literature | p. 136 |
| Mummification | p. 138 |
| The Funerary Cult | p. 140 |
| Communication with the Dead | p. 142 |
| Ghosts and Exorcism | p. 144 |
| The Mummy's Curse | p. 146 |
| The Life of Ritual | p. 148 |
| Securing the Cosmic Order | p. 148 |
| The Daily Offering | p. 150 |
| Ancestor Worship | p. 152 |
| Ritual and History | p. 154 |
| Ritual Gestures | p. 156 |
| Sacred Boats | p. 158 |
| Divine Births and Marriages | p. 160 |
| Piety and Priesthood | p. 162 |
| Ritual Games | p. 164 |
| Art, Architecture and Language | p. 166 |
| The Pyramids | p. 168 |
| Monuments to an Age | p. 168 |
| Map: Main pyramid sites of Egypt | p. 169 |
| Ramps to the Sky: the Pyramid and its Complex | p. 170 |
| Building the Pyramids | p. 174 |
| The Earliest Pyramids | p. 178 |
| Giza: the Great Pyramid | p. 180 |
| Artist's impression: Inside the Great Pyramid | p. 182 |
| Giza: the Pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure | p. 184 |
| The Great Sphinx | p. 186 |
| Pyramids of the "Forgotten Pharaohs" | p. 188 |
| Middle Kingdom Pyramids | p. 190 |
| Tombs and Temples | p. 192 |
| The Dwelling Places of the Dead | p. 192 |
| Royal Tombs | p. 194 |
| Map: Royal burial sites of Western Thebes | p. 195 |
| Private Tombs | p. 197 |
| Cities of the Dead | p. 200 |
| The Temple | p. 202 |
| Houses of the Gods | p. 206 |
| Artist's impression: The temple of Karnak | p. 208 |
| Royal Mortuary Temples | p. 210 |
| Egyptian Art | p. 212 |
| The Potent Image | p. 212 |
| Predynastic and Early Dynastic Art | p. 214 |
| Classical Egypt: the Old Kingdom | p. 216 |
| Regional Styles and Art of the Imperial Age | p. 218 |
| Art of the Late Period | p. 222 |
| Art of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods | p. 224 |
| The Art of Adornment | p. 226 |
| Signs, Symbols and Language | p. 230 |
| Discovering the Key | p. 230 |
| Scripts and Scribes | p. 232 |
| Words and Hieroglyphs | p. 234 |
| The Evolution of the Language | p. 236 |
| The Signs Speak | p. 238 |
| Symbol and Image | p. 240 |
| Glossary | p. 242 |
| Bibliography | p. 243 |
| Index | p. 246 |
| Picture Credits | p. 256 |
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