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The rise and fall of ancient Egypt : the history of a civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra by Toby A. H. Wilkinson is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The rise and fall of ancient Egypt : the history of a civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra about?
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Cambridge University Egyptologist Wilkinson (Lives of the Ancient Egyptians) offers a revisionist view of the ugly life hidden by the splendors and dazzling treasures of pharaonic Egypt. He shows in rich detail that it was a brutal society where life was cheap, royal power absolute and established through fear and coercion. Wilkinson finds unequivocal evidence in royal tombs like that of First Dynasty king Djer (c. 2900 B.C.E.), surrounded by 318 buried retainers, probably victims of human sacrifice. Even if construction workers for Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza ("the ultimate projection of absolute power") were reasonably fed and housed, they were virtual, if not literal, slaves, drafted to perform the perilous work. Later the fanatical, heretic king Akhenaten built a new model city with grand temples where mountains of food were offered to a sun god while his people were starving and severely overworked. The Ptolemies' punitive economic policies unleashed a peasants' revolt that fatally weakened their empire. This is a penetrating and authoritative overview of a violent ancient civilization often revered by contemporary scholars and enthusi
Who reads The rise and fall of ancient Egypt : the history of a civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Toby A. H. Wilkinson
- Publisher
- Random House, Incorporated
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780553805536
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.04 / 5 (1,207 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
