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Ancient Records of Egypt: vol. 1: The First through the Seventeenth Dynasties
James Breasted
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Description for Ancient Records of Egypt: vol. 1: The First through the Seventeenth Dynasties
Paperback. Covers twenty-six dynasties of Egypt spanning more than three millennia: from ca 3050 BC to 525 BC. Beginning with the earliest known official annals of Egypt, the Palermo Stone, this title catalogs the realm's official activities, including royal succession, temple construction, property distribution, and foreign conquest. Editor(s): Breasted, James Henry. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HBJH; HBLA; HDDG; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
Around the turn of the last century, James Henry Breasted took on the challenge of assembling all the available historical documents of ancient Egypt and translating them into English. This prodigious undertaking involved traveling to the monuments extant in the Nile valley and in outlying areas of Egyptian conquest, as well as to museums throughout Europe where Egyptian relics were housed. Breasted made his own copies of hundreds of Egyptian records inscribed on papyrus or leather or carved in stone and engaged in a thorough study of the published records of Egyptian history in conjunction with his own transcription of ... Read more
Around the turn of the last century, James Henry Breasted took on the challenge of assembling all the available historical documents of ancient Egypt and translating them into English. This prodigious undertaking involved traveling to the monuments extant in the Nile valley and in outlying areas of Egyptian conquest, as well as to museums throughout Europe where Egyptian relics were housed. Breasted made his own copies of hundreds of Egyptian records inscribed on papyrus or leather or carved in stone and engaged in a thorough study of the published records of Egyptian history in conjunction with his own transcription of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252069901
SKU
V9780252069901
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About James Breasted
James Henry Breasted (1865-1935), the first American scholar to hold a professorship in Egyptology, was the author of The Battle of Kadesh, A History of Egypt, Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Times: A History of the Early World, and The Conquest of Civilization.Peter A. Piccione is an Egyptologist and professor of comparative ancient history at the ... Read more
Reviews for Ancient Records of Egypt: vol. 1: The First through the Seventeenth Dynasties
"In 1906, Breasted, America's first noted Egyptologist, published this series in which he presents a history of the golden age of Egypt gleaned from its records, many of which he was the first scholar to be allowed to study. This edition, the first in paperback, offers a new introduction by historian Peter A. Piccione, who places Breasted's work in a ... Read more