Exploring Ancient EgyptExploring Ancient Egypt, the fifth volume in the Places in Time series, reveals the excitement of science and history as it tours archaeological discoveries from ancient Egypt.Each of twenty chapters treats a particular site, reflecting a variety of site types (pyramids, rock tombs, temples, and most of the major settlements such as el-Amarna and Alexandria) and offering a balance between daily life, religion, and funerary practices. Each site-chapter features a map showing its location, a site reconstruction, and a chronological table covering the span of occupation. Each chapters narrative describes the history of the sites excavation, the principal finds, and a discussion of the particular method being used.Exploring Ancient Egypt offers a fascinating lens in which to view the culture and lifestyle of the people of ancient Egypt, their technological achievements, their relationships with and ways of exploiting the environment, and the spiritual ideologies that motivated them. Here are some of the places visited in Exploring Ancient EgyptHierakonpolis: The First Egyptian CityAbdyos: The Tombs of the First KingsSaqqara: The Step Pyramid of DjoserGiza: The Great Pyramid and the SphinxAbusir and Abu Ghurob: Royal Tombs and Sun TemplesAswan: The Tombs and Shrines of the NomarchsEl-Lahun and Kahun: The Pyramid and Town of Senusret IIBeni Hasan: The Rock Tombs of the Oryx NomeSouth Sinai: Turquoise Mining at Wadi Mahara and Serabit El-KahamElkab: The City and Necropolis of Nekheb |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The earliest Egyptian city Maceheads and elephant bones | 29 |
Graves of the first pharaohs | 39 |
Steps to heaven The first pyramid | 49 |
The pyramids and the Sphinx | 63 |
Papyri priests and sun temples | 82 |
City of ivory | 92 |
A Middle Kingdom pyramid and town in the Faiyum | 104 |
Death and afterlife in the New Kingdom | 177 |
Colonial templebuilding in Nubia | 196 |
The Mansion of Millions of Years of Ramesses III | 209 |
Capital of the Libyan pharaohs | 223 |
The temple of the hawk god | 233 |
A Greek city in Africa | 243 |
Rome in the desert | 257 |
Chronology | 265 |
The rocktombs of the Oryx Nome | 117 |
Turquoise and copper mines | 127 |
The cult temple of Queen Hatshepsut | 136 |
City of the Heretic King | 150 |
The Theban temples of AmunRa | 164 |
Glossary | 271 |
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Abu Simbel Abusir Abydos Akhenaten Alexandria Amarna Amenemhat Amenhotep Amenhotep III Amun ancient archaeological archaeologists Aswan Aten Beni Hasan building burial chamber Cairo causeway cemetery century A.D. coffins cult decorated Deir el-Bahari Deir el-Medina deities depicted desert dynasty earliest Early Dynastic eastern Edfu Egypt Egyptian Museum Egyptologist Elephantine excavated Faiyum funerary Giza granite Hathor Hatshepsut Hierakonpolis Horus Hypostyle Hall inscriptions Karnak Khafra kilometers king king's Lahun late Luxor mastaba-tombs Medinet Habu Mentuhotep meters Middle Kingdom modern monuments mortuary temple mud-brick mummies necropolis nonroyal Nubia Nyuserra Old Kingdom papyri Petrie pharaohs pharaonic period Predynastic priests pylon pyramid complex quarries Queen Ramesses Ramesses II reign reliefs ritual rock-cut Roman Period royal tombs rulers sacred sanctuary Saqqara scenes Senenmut Senusret Senusret III settlement shrine Sphinx statue stelae stele Step Pyramid stone surviving Tanis Theban Thebes Third Intermediate Period Thutmose Thutmose III Tutankhamun valley temple Wadi walls