Showing The Egyptians (Ancient Peoples and Places) by Cyril Aldred

Paperback. Pub Date: 09 May 1998. Pages: 224 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Click on the Google Preview image above to read some pages of this book! Ancient Egypt may have been to paraphrase Herodotus The gift of the Nile. but Egypt's civilization was no less the product of her god incarnate. the pharaoh. These twin themes - the overwhelming importance of the annual inundation of the Nile and the rise and fall over three thousand years of the power of the divine king - provide the unifying thread running through the fourth edition of this classic text.The late Cyril Aldred was Keeper of the Department of Art and Archaeology at the Royal Museum of Scotland. and served as Associate Curator of the Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Aidan Dodson. Visiting Fellow in Archaeology at the University of istol. has completely revised this masterpiece of compressi...