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A history of Egypt, from the earliest times to the Persian conquest
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- Creator
- by James Henry Breasted. With two hundred illustrations and maps
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- English
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- Second edition, fully revised
- New York : Scribner, [1937]
- [©1937]
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- xxix, 634 pages : illustrations, plates, maps (l folded) ; 25 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00413289
- The land -- Preliminary survey, chronology and documentary sources -- Earliest Egypt -- Early religion -- The old kingdom: government and society, industry and art -- The pyramid builders -- The sixth dynasty: the decline of the old kingdom -- The decline of the north and the rise of Thebes -- The middle kingdom, the feudal age: state, society and religion -- The twelfth dynasty -- The fall of the middle kingdom: the hyksos -- The expulsion of the hyksos and the triumph of Thebes -- The new state: society and religion -- The consolidation of the kingdom: the rise of the empire -- The feud of the Thutmosids and the reign of Hatshepsut -- The consolidation of the empire: Thutmose III -- The empire -- The religious revolution of Ikhnaton -- The fall of Ikhnaton and the dissolution of the empire -- The triumph of Amon and the reorganization of the empire -- The wars of Ramses II -- The empire of Ramses II -- The final decline of the empire: Merneptah and Ramses III -- The fall of the empire -- Priests and mercenaries: the supremacy of the Libyans -- The Ethiopian supremacy and the triumph of Assyria -- The restoration -- The final struggles: Babylon and Persia