Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization

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This fully revised and up to date third edition of the bestselling Ancient Egypt seeks to spot what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics, ranging across material culture, the mindset of its people, and social and economic factors.

In this volume, Barry J. Kemp identifies the tips through which the Egyptians organized their experience of the world and explains how they maintained a uniform style of their art and architecture across three thousand years, even as accommodating substantial changes in outlook. The underlying aim is to relate ancient Egypt to the wider mainstream of our figuring out of how all human societies function.

Source material is taken from ancient written documents, whilst the book also highlights the contribution that archaeology makes to our figuring out of Egyptian culture and society. It uses a large number of case studies, illustrating them with artwork expressly prepared from specialist sources. Broad ranging yet impressively detailed, the book is an indispensable text for all students of ancient Egypt and for the general reader.


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