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Pharaoh's Land and Beyond - Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors (Hardcover)
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Pharaoh's Land and Beyond - Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors (Hardcover)
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The concept of pharaonic Egypt as a unified, homogeneous, and
isolated cultural entity is misleading. Ancient Egypt was a rich
tapestry of social, religious, technological, and economic
interconnections among numerous cultures from disparate lands. This
volume uniquely examines Egypt's relationship with its wider world
through fifteen chapters arranged in five thematic groups. The
first three chapters detail the geographical contexts of
interconnections through examination of ancient Egyptian
exploration, maritime routes, and overland passages. The next three
chapters address the human principals of association: peoples, with
the attendant difficulties differentiating ethnic identities from
the record; diplomatic actors, with their complex balances and
presentations of power; and the military, with its evolving role in
pharaonic expansion. Natural events, too, played significant roles
in the pharaonic world: geological disasters, the effects of
droughts and floods on the Nile, and illness and epidemics all
delivered profound impacts, as is seen in the third section.
Physical manifestations of interconnections between pharaonic Egypt
and its neighbors in the form of objects are the focus of the
fourth set: trade, art and architecture, and a specific case study
of scarabs. The final section discusses in depth perhaps the most
powerful means of interconnection: ideas. Whether through diffusion
and borrowing of knowledge and technology, through the flow of
words by script and literature, or through exchanges in the
religious sphere, the pharaonic Egypt that we know today was
constantly changing-and changing the cultures around it.
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