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Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer offers a comprehensive history of Ancient Egypt from the construction of the Great Pyramid to the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom—a pinnacle of pharaonic culture and the emergence of writing. Over decades of study, Romer shows how earlier 19th‑ and 20th‑century Egyptological interpretations, which painted Egypt as a land of cruel monarchs and relentless war, have been distorted. By incorporating discoveries from the past twenty years, he reconstructs a more accurate account rooted in surviving architecture, artifacts, and texts, revealing a civilization grounded in physical reality rather than sensationalist legend.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: History/Ancient History
Authors: John Romer
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