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A History of Ancient Egypt: From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom
By Romer, John
- ISBN
- 9781250030139 9781466849594
- Publisher
- Thomas Dunne: St. Martin's
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Reviewed on February 15, 2017 | Social Sciences
A veteran Egyptologist, Romer is the author of several books on the subject and presenter of the BBC documentary series Ancient Lives. This is the second of at least three volumes reassessing the "history" of "ancient Egypt," a concept he warns is an unreliable construct of 19th-century Eurocentric scholarship "largely based on translations of randomly surviving fragments of non-historical texts." As with the previous era, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
