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Summary: a.k.a. "The Egyptians"
Review: Sir Alan Gardiner's "Egypt of the Pharaohs" was reprinted by the Folio Society in 1999 as "The Egyptians" in a beautifully bound hardcover edition. The text is the same as that of the first edition (Oxford University Press 1961) with some minor emendations."The Egyptians" is sometimes found as Used or Out of Print either alone or as part of a Folio boxed collection together with "The Babylonians", "The Hittites" and "The Persians".
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Summary: a.k.a. "The Egyptians"
Review: Sir Alan Gardiner's "Egypt of the Pharaohs" was reprinted by the Folio Society in 1999 as "The Egyptians" in a beautifully bound hardcover edition. The text is the same as that of the first edition (Oxford University Press 1961) with some minor emendations. "The Egyptians" is sometimes found as Used or Out of Print either alone or as part of a Folio boxed collection together with "The Babylonians", "The Hittites" and "The Persians".
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Summary: a.k.a. "The Egyptians"
Review: Sir Alan Gardiner's "Egypt of the Pharaohs" was reprinted by the Folio Society in 1999 as "The Egyptians" in a beautifully bound hardcover edition. The text is the same as that of the first edition (Oxford University Press 1961) with some minor emendations. "The Egyptians" is sometimes found as Used or Out of Print either alone or as part of a Folio boxed collection together with "The Babylonians", "The Hittites" and "The Persians".
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Summary: Egypt of the Pharaohs, 3rd edition
Review: This is the textbook we use in my Egyptian History course at the University of Alabama. It is a great book on egypt stretching from the old stone age to the Ptolmic Pharaohs. Interesting to read, I disagree somewhat with Gardiner, but i read the book thirty years after it's first publication. Gardiner's book is essential to anyone wanting to understand Egypt.
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Summary: Egypt of the Pharaohs, 3rd edition
Review: This is the textbook we use in my Egyptian History course at the University of Alabama. It is a great book on egypt stretching from the old stone age to the Ptolmic Pharaohs. Interesting to read, I disagree somewhat with Gardiner, but i read the book thirty years after it's first publication. Gardiner's book is essential to anyone wanting to understand Egypt.
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Summary: A classic study and reference for non-classical scholars.
Review: Written by a master in his field and well-written at that, it is no wonder this work finds a place of honor in practically all the bibliographies of succeeding publications. Gardner covers Egyptian history from predynastic times to Greco-Roman, mentioning even the most obscure pharaohs and figures. The plates are exquisite even some forty years after the original photos for them were taken. One's only complaint might be that, since the format guidelines were somewhat different in the 60's, there aren't two spaces after each sentence, but this only takes a couple chapters to get used to. For a closing statement, I recommend you obtain this book so that you may read Gardner's own, for its closing statement rings with the charming chivalry that Gardner and many of his contemporaries practiced.
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