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Ancient Records of Egypt - VOL. 3: THE NINETEENTH DYNASTY (Paperback, annotated edition)
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Ancient Records of Egypt - VOL. 3: THE NINETEENTH DYNASTY (Paperback, annotated edition)
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Volume 3 of Ancient Records of Egypt opens on the chaotic aftermath
of King Akhenaten's religious revolution. Breasted chronicles the
precarious reigns of Akhenaten's successors and the political and
legal reforms of King Horemheb, who succeeded to the throne after
the passing of the last members of the royal family. This volume
contains the important edict of Horemheb, intended to prevent the
oppressive abuses connected with the collection of taxes from the
common people, and the inscriptions of Roy, high priest of Amon,
showing the first transmission from father to son of the office of
the high priest. In the context of a long history of mutilating and
altering reliefs for political purposes, Breasted discusses the
insertion into a relief of the figure of Ramesses II in order to
reinforce his claim to the throne. This volume also includes the
treaty of alliance that sealed peace with the Hittites under
Ramesses II; a series of documents that record the invasion of
Libyans and Mediterranean Sea people during the reign of Merneptah;
and the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, the most remarkable of the
rock-cut temples of Egypt. This first complete paperback edition of
Breasted's five-volume Ancient Records of Egypt makes available to
a new audience a milestone in Egyptology and in the compilation of
documentary histories. Clearly annotated for the lay reader, the
documents provide copious evidence of trade relations, construction
activities, diplomatic envoys, foreign expeditions, and other
aspects of a vigorous, highly organized, and centrally controlled
society. Breasted's commentary is both rigorously documented and
accessible, suffused with a contagious fascination for the events,
the personalities, the cultural practices, and the sophistication
these records indicate
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