ISBN: 9781933834542

Description: pages cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Timeline
• Egypt, gift of the Nile
• Land of gold
• Kingdoms
• Egypt before the pharaohs
• The first pyramids
• The Old Kingdom
• The Middle Kingdom
• The Kingdom
• The Near East
• Egypt divided
• The last Egyptian rulers
• Greek and Roman rule
• Lower Nubia
• Sites : Abu Simbel
• Southern Upper Egypt
• Sites : Aswan, Holy Islands, Edfu
• Thebes
• Sites : Luxor, Karnak, City of the Dead
• Northern Upper Egypt
• Sites : Dendara, Abydos
• Middle Egypt
• Sites : Meir, Maidum, Beni Hasan
• Sites : El Amarna
• Memphis
• Sites : Dashur, Saqarra, Abusir, Giza
• The Delta
• Sites : Bubastis, Alexandria, Tanis, Qantir.

LCCN: 2009016802

Control Number: 706136

Series:

• Facts at your fingertips
• Facts at your fingertips.

Subjects: Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C.

Other Authors: Dalal, Anita.