Nile: Urban Histories on the Banks of a River

ISBN-13: 9781474458603 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str.

Nezar Alsayyad (University of California Berkeley)

Spis treści

Dedication; Preface; Roadmap; Prologue: The Urban Life of a River; 1. Finding the Source of the Nile: Centuries of Discovery; 2. Birth of the Nile: Water Carves a Path through Rugged Land; 3. The Nile of Lower Egypt: Memphis, the First Capital City; 4. Thebes of the Pharaohs: The Nile of Upper Egypt; 5. Avaris and Akhetaten: Temporary Capitals on the Nile; 6. Nubia on the Nile: The Kingdom of the Black Pharaohs in Napata and Meroe; 7. Alexandria: Greeks and Romans on the Western Edge of the Nile Delta; 8. A Nile Oasis in the Sahara: Fayoum of the Ptolemies; 9. Cairo: The Thousand Years Capital on the Nile; 10. Crusaders on the Nile: Damietta and Mansoura; 11. Cities of the Blue Nile: Lake Tana and the Ethiopian Empires; 12. Rosetta and the Discovery of Ancient Egypt: Where the Nile Meets the Sea; 13. Khartoum and Omdurman: An Islamic State on the Nile in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; 14. A Pyramid for the Living: The Nile at Aswan; Epilogue: On the Possible Death of the Nile and the Life of Its Cities.