Pharaohs & Pyramids

摘要

During his long career in Egyptology, archaeologist Romer (The Great Pyramid) has excavated in the Valley of the Kings and Karnak, written a dozen books on the subject, and presented critically acclaimed TV documentaries. He is now in the process of reassessing the history of ancient Egypt. In this first of what will be two volumes, he covers from 5000 to 2550 BCE, from Egypt's "beginnings to the establishment of the full panoply of the pharaonic state." This formative period was an afterthought in Alan Gardiner's classic Egypt of the Pharaohs, literally placed at the end of the book. W.B. Emery's Archaic Egypt and Michael A. Hoffman's Egypt Before the Pharaohs offered popularly oriented overviews.