Exploring Ancient Egypt

Exploring Ancient Egypt

The fifth volume in the Places in Time series, reveals the excitement of science and history as it tours archaeological discoveries from ancient Egypt.

Each of twenty chapters treats a particular site, reflecting a variety of site types (pyramids, rock tombs, temples, and most of the major settlements such as el-Amarna and Alexandria) and offering a balance between daily life, religion, and funerary practices. Each site-chapter features a map showing its location, a site reconstruction, and a chronological table covering the span of occupation. Each chapters narrative describes the history of the sites excavation, the principal finds, and a discussion of the particular method being used.

Exploring Ancient Egypt offers a fascinating lens in which to view the culture and lifestyle of the people of ancient Egypt, their technological achievements, their relationships with and ways of exploiting the environment, and the spiritual ideologies that motivated them. Here are some of the places visited in Exploring Ancient Egypt

Places Visited

Hierakonpolis: The First Egyptian City

Abdyos: The Tombs of the First Kings

Saqqara: The Step Pyramid of Djoser

Giza: The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx

Abusir and Abu Ghurob: Royal Tombs and Sun Temples

Aswan: The Tombs and Shrines of the Nomarchs

El-Lahun and Kahun: The Pyramid and Town of Senusret II

Beni Hasan: The Rock Tombs of the Oryx Nome

South Sinai: Turquoise Mining at Wadi Mahara and Serabit El-Kaham

Elkab: The City and Necropolis of Nekheb