Table of Contents

List of Illustrations xiii

List of Color Plates xvi

List of Maps xvii

List of Boxed Texts xviii

List of Summaries of Dynastic History xx

Preface xv

1 Introductory Concerns 1

2 The Formation of the Egyptian State (ca. 3400–2686) 27

3 The Great Pyramid Builders (ca. 2686–2345) 52

4 The End of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period (ca. 2345–2055) 78

5 The Middle Kingdom (ca. 2055–1650) 97

6 The Second Intermediate Period and the Hyksos (ca. 1700–1550) 126

7 The Birth of Empire: The Early 18th Dynasty (ca. 1550–1390) 151

8 The Amarna Revolution and the Late 18th Dynasty (ca. 1390–1295) 184

9 The Ramessid Empire (ca. 1295–1203) 213

10 The End of Empire (ca. 1213–1070) 240

11 The Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1069–715) 260

12 Egypt in the Age of Empires (ca. 715–332) 283

13 Greek and Roman Egypt (332 BC–AD 395) 316

Glossary 358

King List 362

Bibliography 368

Index 387

About the Author

Marc Van De Mieroop is Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author and editor of numerous publications on the Ancient Near East and ancient Egypt, including A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000 - 323 B.C., 2nd edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) and King Hammurabi of Babylon (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005).

Reviews

This Historywill probably be most valuable to readers newto the subject or to non-specialists interested in aspects ofEgyptian culture and in need of historical context. (Antiquity, 1 January 2013)