文档介绍：Douglas J. Brewer is Professor of ANCIENT EGYPT ANCIENT EGYPT Some of the most fundamental and
Anthropology at the University of fascinating aspects of later Egyptian
Illinois and Director of the Spurlock FOUNDATIONS OF A CIVILIZATION civilization can only be understood by
Museum. He has spent 20 years involved looking deep into Egypt’s past. All the
in fieldwork projects in Egypt, including hallmarks of Egyptian culture –
“…this is a most e book, which will fill a gap in the study of early Egypt…
research on the natural history of the Pyramids, hieroglyphic writing, belief in
The author…has sprinkled his narrative with anecdotes from his own archaeo-
Eastern Desert, the Palaeolithic/Neolithic the afterlife and fervent nationalism –
logical expeditions making the text lively and entertaining, elevating his book from
transition in the Fayum and excavations can be traced in an unbroken line back
mere description to a highly personal and approachable account. This is a skillful
concerned with the Predynastic/Dynastic to Egypt’s earliest peoples. In this
survey that will benefit many different kinds of readers. I highly mend it.”
transition in the Delta and Egyptian Nile beautifully illustrated account of the
Valley. He has also written numerous Ronald J. Leprohon, Professor of Egyptology, University of Toronto origins of ancient Egypt, Douglas J.
books and articles on Egypt, including Brewer shows why an awareness of the
the bestselling Egypt and the Egyptians OF A CIVILIZATION FOUNDATIONS earliest phase of Egyptian history is
(1999). Have you ever wondered who built the pyramids and why? What life was like for crucial to our understanding of later
the earliest Egyptians? When and how hieroglyphic writing developed? How Egyptian culture. Beginning with a
Egyptian civilization changed through time? What religion the ancient quick review of the fields of Egyptology
Also available from Longman: Egyptians practiced? The answers to all these ques