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| List of Plates | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| Abbreviations of References Listed in Suggested Readings | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Egyptian Archaeology: Definitions and History | |
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| Introduction: Ancient Egyptian Civilization and its Prehistoric Predecessors | |
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| Egyptian Archaeology | |
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| Egyptology | |
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| History of Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology | |
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| Archaeological Methods | |
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| Archaeological Theory | |
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| Ancient Egypt and Egyptian Archaeologists in Fiction and Films | |
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| Hieroglyphs, Language, and Pharaonic Chronology | |
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| Language of the Ancient Egyptians | |
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| Origins and Development of Egyptian Writing | |
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| Scripts and Media of Writing | |
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| Signs, Structure, and Grammar | |
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| Literacy in Ancient Egypt | |
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| Textual Studies | |
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| Use of Texts in Egyptian Archaeology | |
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| Historical Outline of Pharaonic Egypt | |
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| The Egyptian Civil Calendar, King Lists, and Calculation of Pharaonic Chronology | |
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| The Environmental Background to Pharaonic Civilization: Geography, Environment, Agriculture, and Natural Resources | |
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| Geography: Terms and Place Names | |
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| Environmental Setting | |
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| Environmental and Other Problems for Archaeology in Egypt | |
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| The Seasons and the Agricultural System | |
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| The Ancient Egyptian Diet | |
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| Other Useful Animals and Plants | |
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| Building Materials | |
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| Other Resources: Clays, Stones, Minerals | |
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| Imported Materials | |
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| Egyptian Prehistory: The Paleolithic and Neolithic | |
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| Paleolithic | |
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| Paleolithic Cultures in Egypt | |
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| Lower Paleolithic | |
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| Middle Paleolithic | |
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| Upper Paleolithic | |
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| Late Paleolithic | |
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| Epipaleolithic | |
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| Neolithic | |
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| Saharan Neolithic | |
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| Neolithic in the Nile Valley: Faiyum A and Lower Egypt | |
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| Neolithic in the Nile Valley: Middle and Upper Egypt | |
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| The Rise of Complex Society and Early Civilization | |
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| Predynastic Egypt | |
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| The Predynastic Period: Egypt in the 4th Millennium BC | |
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| Lower Egypt: Buto-Ma'adi Culture | |
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| Upper Egypt: Naqada Culture | |
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| Lower Nubia: A-Group Culture | |
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| State Formation and Unification | |
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| The Early Dynastic State | |
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| Organization and Institutions of the Early Dynastic State | |
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| Early Writing and Formal Art | |
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| The Expanding State | |
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| Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? Physical Anthropology | |
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| The Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period | |
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| The Old Kingdom: Overview | |
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| The Early Old Kingdom | |
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| The 3rd Dynasty: Djoser's Step Pyramid at Saqqara | |
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| The 4th Dynasty's First King, Sneferu, and his Three Pyramids | |
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| Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza | |
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| The Great Sphinx and Khafra's Pyramid Complex | |
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| Menkaura's Giza Pyramid and its Remarkable Valley Temple Finds | |
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| Giza Pyramid Towns | |
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| Giza Mastabas, Queen Hetepheres's Hidden Tomb, and the Workmen's Cemetery | |
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| The Later Old Kingdom | |
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| Sun Temples of the 5th Dynasty | |
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| Later Old Kingdom Pyramids and the Pyramid Texts | |
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| An Expanding Bureaucracy: Private Tombs in the 5th and 6th Dynasties | |
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| Egypt Abroad | |
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| The First Intermediate Period | |
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| The End of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period: Causes of State Collapse | |
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| The Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period | |
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| The Middle Kingdom | |
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| The Middle Kingdom: Overview | |
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| Pre-Unification 11th Dynasty: Saff Tombs at Thebes | |
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| Mentuhotep II's Complex at Deir el-Bahri | |
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| Model Workers and the Deir el-Bahri Tomb of Meketra | |
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| 12th-Dynasty Temples | |
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| 12th- and 13th-Dynasty Pyramids | |
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| Towns and Domestic Architecture: Kahun and South Abydos | |
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| Nomarchs in Middle Egypt: The Beni Hasan Tombs | |
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| Mining in the Sinai and a Galena Mine in the Eastern Desert | |
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| Egyptian Forts in Nubia and Indigenous Peoples There | |
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| The Second Intermediate Period | |
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| The Second Intermediate Period: The Hyksos Kingdom in the North | |
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| The Kerma Kingdom in Upper Nubia | |
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| The Theban State During the Second Intermediate Period | |
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| The New Kingdom | |
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| The New Kingdom: Overview | |
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| The Early New Kingdom | |
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| Early New Kingdom Architecture: Ahmose's Abydos Pyramid Complex, and the Theban Mortuary Temples of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III | |
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| Amenhotep III's Malkata Palace | |
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| Tell el-Amarna and the Amarna Period | |
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| The Amarna Aftermath and Tutankhamen's Tomb | |
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| New Kingdom Temples | |
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| Restoration of the Traditional Gods: Sety I's Abydos Temple | |
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| The Temples of Karnak and Luxor in the New Kingdom | |
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| Ramessid Mortuary Temples | |
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| Royal and Elite Tombs | |
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| Royal Tombs in the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens | |
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| Elite Tombs at Thebes and Saqqara | |
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| State Towns and Settlements | |
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| The Workmen's Village and Tombs at Deir el-Medina | |
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| Nubian Temple Towns | |
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| The Third Intermediate Period and Late Period | |
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| The Third Intermediate Period: Overview | |
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| The Late Period: Overview | |
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| Tanis: A New City with Royal Tombs | |
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| Napata/Gebel Barkal and Sanam | |
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| el-Kurru and Nuri: The Kushite Royal Tombs | |
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| Saqqara: The Serapeum and Animal Cults | |
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| Some High Status Tombs of the Third Intermediate Period and Late Period | |
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| Tell el-Maskhuta and Tell el-Herr | |
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| The Greco-Roman Period | |
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| Greco-Roman Egypt | |
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| The Ptolemaic Period: Overview | |
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| The Roman Period: Overview | |
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| Alexandria | |
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| Greco-Roman Settlements in the Faiyum | |
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| Two Greco-Roman Temple Complexes in Upper Egypt: Dendera and Philae | |
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| Sites Outside the Nile Valley | |
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| The Western Desert: Bahariya and Dakhla Oases | |
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| The Eastern Desert: Roman Ports, Forts, Roads, and Quarrying Sites | |
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| Nubia | |
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| Qasr Ibrim | |
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| Meroe: The Kushite Capital and Royal Cemeteries | |
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| The Study of Ancient Egypt | |
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| Glossary of Terms | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Additional Readings in French, German, and Italian | |
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| Chapter Summaries and Discussion Questions | |
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| Index | |