The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

ISBN-13: 9781408810026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 672 str.

Toby Wilkinson

Opis

Toby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconography of power to reveal ancient Egypt in all its complexity. We see the relentless propaganda, the cut-throat politics, the brutality and repression that lay behind the appearance of unchanging monarchy.

Recenzje

'A sophisticated and complete account of the world's first nation state' The Times Books of the Year

O autorze

Toby Wilkinson read Egyptology at Cambridge University and has been hailed by The Daily Telegraph as 'the foremost Egyptologist of his time'. Since January 2004 he has been a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He is a member of the international editorial board of the Journal of Egyptian History, and has broadcast on radio and television in the UK and abroad on topics connected with Egypt, ancient and modern. He is the author of seven books including The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (2010) which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was recommended as a book of the year by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. He also edited the recent encyclopedic reference work, The Egyptian World. He lives in Suffolk.