WHEN EGYPT RULED THE EAST
Book Details + Condition: The University Chicago Press (Chicago). First Edition, 1942. Hardcover. 272 pages with Index. Heavily illustrated. Authors George Steindorff and Keith C. Seele explore the New Kingdom period in ancient Egyptian history, during which the pharaohs of the 18th and 19th Dynasties pursued their imperial visions of conquering Palestine and Syria. Egypt's quarrels with Megiddo and Kadesh, the Mitanni Empire, and the Hittites are also examined. Chapters include:
- How the Lost Key to Ancient Egypt was Found Again
- The Old and Middle Kingdom
- The Hykos
- The War of Liberation
- The Rise of the Golden Age
- West Asia in the Middle Kingdom of the Second Millennium B.C.
- The Conquest of Thutmose III
- The King and Administration in the Golden Age
- The Outside World
- The Egyptian Religion
- The Egyptian Hieroglyphs
- Amenhotep IV - Akhnaton and the Reformation
- Tutankhamun and the Close of the Eighteenth Dynasty
- And more.
Firm binding; lightly rubbed corners and edges; minor shelf wear to boards; darkening to spine; interior is clean and free of markings, save inscription to half-title page, and bookplate to opposite page.
