Table of Contents

VOLUME 1 Guide to Related Topics Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Timeline of Ancient Egyptian History Entries A–K Abu Ghurab Abu Simbel Abusir Abydos Administration Afterlife Agriculture Amulets Amun Animals Animals, Sacred and Mummies Army Art Astronomy Aten Autobiographical Inscriptions Primary Document—Excerpt from the Autobiography of Ankhtify Primary Document—Excerpt from the Inscription of Intef Barque, Sacred Basketry and Cordage Beads Beer Beni Hasan Birds Book of the Dead Bread Bubastis Calendar Canopic Jar and Box Chariot Childbirth Cities and Villages Clothing Coffin Texts Primary Document—Excerpt from CT 335, a Coffin Text Spell Coffins and Sarcophagi Color Symbolism Colossi of Memnon Cosmetics and Toiletries Cosmology Crime and Punishment Primary Document—Account of the Trial of Tomb Robbers from the Amherst Papyrus Crowns Cult Ritual, Temple Dahshur Dance Decipherment Deification Deir el-Medina Demons Dendera Dental Health Deserts Diplomacy Primary Document—Excerpt from an Egyptian Treaty with the Hittites Disease Edfu Education Elephantine Ethics Ethnicity Faience Families Felines Female Figurines Fish Flowers Food Footwear Foreign Relations and Treaties Foreigners Forts and Fortifications Foundation Deposits Funerary Books, Royal Furniture and Woodworking Gardens Gebel Barkal Gender and Sex Giza Glass Goddesses, Minor Gods, Minor God's Wife of Amun Gold Graffiti Hair and Wigs Harem Primary Document—Interrogation of Prince Pentawer Regarding His Involvement in a Harem Conspiracy Primary Document—Marriage of Queen Tiye and Amenhotep III Hathor Hawara Headrests Heliopolis Hierakonpolis Horus Houses Human Sacrifice Hunting Iron Isis Jewelry Kadesh, Battle of (ca. 1274 BCE) Primary Document—Description of a Hittite Attack during the Battle of Kadesh Karnak Kerma King Lists Kingship Kingship Myths Kush VOLUME 2 Guide to Related Topics Entries L–Z Labor Lahun Language and Script Law Leather Libraries Lisht Literacy and Orality Literature, Fiction Primary Document—Excerpt from the Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor Lower Egypt Maat Magic Marriage and Divorce Mathematics Medicine and Doctors Megiddo, Battle of (ca. 1457 BCE) Primary Document—Account of the Battle of Megiddo Meidum Memphis Mining Mummies, Royal Mummification Music and Musical Instruments Myth Myths, Creation Nile River Primary Document—Thutmose III Returns from a Campaign Nomes and Provincial Administration Nubia Primary Document—Senusret III's Conquest of Nubia Obelisk Primary Document—Text from Obelisk of Hatshepsut Primary Document—Text from Stela at Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III Primary Document—Text from Obelisk of Senusret Offerings, Votive Officials Opening of the Mouth Opet Festival Oracles Osiris Palaces Personal Names Philae Island Police Pottery Predynastic Period (ca. 5300–3000 BCE) Priestesses Priests Ptah Ptolemaic Egypt (305–30 BCE) Punt Pyramid Construction Pyramid Texts Pyramids Quarrying Queens Primary Document—Hatshepsut Becomes Regent for Thutmose III Ra Religion, Personal Roman Egypt (30 BCE–395 CE) Royal Regalia Royal Titulary Sakkara Scarab Scribes and Scribal Equipment Primary Document—Excerpt from a Text Encouraging Scribes in Their Work Sculpture and Sculptors Sea Peoples Primary Document—Account of the Sea Peoples' Attack on Egypt Seals and Sealing Sed Festival Seth Ships and Shipping Silver Sledge Sphinx, Great Sports and Games State Formation Sticks and Staves Tanis Tattoos Taxation Tell el-Amarna Primary Document—Akhenaten's Oath from the Boundary Stelae at Tell el-Amarna Tell el-Dab'a Temples, Mortuary Temples, Ptolemaic-Roman Temples, State Thebes, East and West Thoth Tomb Models Tomb of Tutankhamun Tomb Robbery Primary Document—Confessions of Eight Tomb Robbers Tombs, Private Transportation Upper Egypt Valley of the Kings Valley of the Queens Vizier Weapons and Armor Weaving and Looms Weighing of the Heart Wine Wisdom Literature Primary Document—Excerpt from the Instruction of Ptahhotep Primary Document—Excerpt from the Words of Neferti Women Bibliography About the Editor and Contributors Index

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Written by specialists in the field of Egyptology, this book is a readable introduction to ancient Egypt, covering all anticipated subjects and stressing the monuments and material culture of this remarkable ancient civilization.

About the Author

Lisa K. Sabbahy, PhD, is assistant professor of Egyptology at the American University of Cairo, Egypt.

Reviews

With its accessible essays and emphasis on culture, this set will be an excellent introduction for students and general readers. A definite purchase for high school, college, and public libraries.
*Booklist*

Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.
*Choice*

Offering secondary and undergraduate students an introduction to a vast subject, these densely informative volumes might also appeal to lay specialists.
*Library Journal*

Libraries serving […students at the high school or undergraduate university levels as well as interested readers from the general public] should consider this two-volume set…
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