The history of ancient Egypt /
A survey of the 3,000 years of Egyptian history from prehistoric times to the death of Cleopatra.
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| Format: | CD Audio Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, Va. :
Teaching Co.,
[2001]
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| Series: | Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
- part I. 1. Introduction
- 2. Prehistoric Egypt
- 3. Ancient Egyptian thought
- 4. Napoleon and the beginnings of Egyptology
- 5. The Rosetta Stone, and much more
- 6. The first nation in history
- 7. The rise of the Old Kingdom
- 8. Sneferu, the pyramid builder
- 9. The Great Pyramid of Giza
- 10. The end of the Old Kingdom
- 11. The First Intermediate Period
- 12. The Middle Kingdom, Dynasty XI.
- part II. 13. The Middle Kingdom, Dynasty XII
- 14. The Second Intermediate Period
- 15. Joseph in Egypt
- 16. The beginning of the New Kingdom: the fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty
- 17. Queen Hatshepsut
- 18. Obelisks
- 19. Tuthmosis III, King at last
- 20. The fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty rolls on
- 21. Akhenaten, the heretic pharaoh
- 22. The discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb
- 23. The murder of Tutankhamen, a theory
- 24. Medicine, the necessary art.
- part III. 25. The end of Dynasty XVIII
- 26. Mummification, how we know what we know
- 27. What mummies tell us
- 28. Making a modern mummy
- 29. Dynasty XIX begins
- 30. Ramses the Great, the early years
- 31. Ramses the Great, the later years
- 32. The exodus, did it happen
- 33. The decline of Dynasty XIX
- 34. Dynasty XX, the decline continues
- 35. Ancient Egyptian magic
- 36. Dynasty XXI, Egypt divided.
- part IV. 37. Dynasty XXII, Egypt united
- 38. Dynasty XXV, the Nubians have their day
- 39. Dynasty XXVI, the Saite period
- 40. Dynasty XXVII, the Persians
- 41. Dynasties XXVIII to XXXI, the beginning of the end
- 42. Alexander the Great
- 43. The first Ptolemies
- 44. The middle Ptolemies, the decline
- 45. Animal mummies
- 46. Cleopatra's family
- 47. Cleopatra, the last Ptolemy
- 48. The grand finale.