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The Ancient Egypt Guide
ISBN: 9781566568586 | 1566568587
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc
Pub. Date: 4/1/2011
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Originally published as the Penguin Guide to Ancient Egypt, William Murnane's highly-acclaimed book has been fully revised and updated by Professor Aidan Dodson. This new edition will bring Murnane's engaging yet rigorous learning to a new audience, complete with up-to-date guidebook information as well as a compact yet wide-ranging cultural history.
| Preface to the third edition | p. 9 |
| Preface to the second edition | p. 11 |
| The Land and the River | p. 17 |
| People, Professions and Leisure | p. 25 |
| The Government | p. 43 |
| Pharaonic Egypt and its Neighbours | p. 51 |
| Cities of God | p. 59 |
| Death and Burial | p. 65 |
| Mansions of Eternity | p. 77 |
| Graxo-Roman Tw... MORE | p. 87 |
| Pharaonic Heritage | p. 93 |
| The Delta | p. 99 |
| Cairo and Environs I: Ancient Pharaonic Monuments | p. 111 |
| Cairo and Environs II: Christian and Islamic Sites (Nicholas Warner) | p. 115 |
| Giza to Abusir | p. 151 |
| Memphis and Saqqara | p. 167 |
| The Southern Pyramid Fields and the Faiyum | p. 187 |
| Middle Egypt | p. 194 |
| Abydos to Luxor | p. 219 |
| Luxor, East Bank | p. 237 |
| Luxor, West Bank: Royal Monuments | p. 257 |
| Luxor, West Bank: Private Monuments | p. 293 |
| Luxor to Aswan | p. 319 |
| Aswan | p. 337 |
| Beyond the Borders | p. 353 |
| Practical Information (Nicholas Warner) | |
| Travel in Egypt | p. 371 |
| A Guide to Cities and Towns | p. 387 |
| Capsule King List and History of Ancient Egypt | p. 401 |
| Further Reading | p. 408 |
| General Index | p. 411 |
| Index of Localities | p. 415 |
| List of Maps | |
| The Delta | p. 98 |
| Alexandria | p. 014 |
| Central Cairo | p. 114 |
| ÆOld CairoÆ: Roman and Christian Quarter (æBabylonÆ) | p. 120 |
| Medieval Cairo, from North to South of the Old City Walls | p. 131 |
| Cairene Monuments from the IbnTulun Mosque to the Citadel | p. 142-3 |
| Monuments of CairoÆs Southern Cemetery | p. 145 |
| Monuments of CairoÆs Northern Cemetery | p. 145 |
| Pyramid Fields from Abu Rawash to the Faiyum | p. 189 |
| The Faiyum | p. 191 |
| Luxor, East Bank | p. 253 |
| Luxor, West Bank | p. 257 |
| Aswan Region | p. 337 |
| Town of Aswan, Monuments | p. 338 |
| The Sinai | p. 361 |
| Oases of Kharga and Dakhla | p. 367 |
| Bahriya Oasis | p. 368 |
| Siwa Oasis | p. 367 |
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William J. Murnane was born in New York in 1945 and studied at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A prolific writer, he became Professor of Ancient History at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, and field director of an ongoing project devoted to recording and publishing the reliefs and inscriptions in the Great Hypostyle Hall of the Temple of Karnak. He died suddenly in 2000.
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