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The most lasting achievement of the German Egyptologist Heinrich
Karl Brugsch (1827-94) is perhaps his work on the Egyptian demotic
script, which had been relatively neglected since Champollion's
death. This illustrated two-volume history of Egypt, 'derived
entirely from the monuments', was first published in an English
translation (by H. D. Seymour, from the 1876 first German edition,
and edited by Philip Smith) in 1879. Brugsch brings to bear his
wide experience of the archaeological sites together with his
linguistic expertise, and deliberately eschews later Greek and
Roman accounts of Egypt. Volume 1 gives a detailed survey of the
physical environment of Egypt before considering the pre-dynastic
period, and the emergence of Menes, the first known pharaoh. He
then takes the narrative through the Old and Middle Kingdoms, and
the intermediate period, to the emergence of the New Kingdom and
the flowering and end of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
The most lasting achievement of the German Egyptologist Heinrich
Karl Brugsch (1827-94) is perhaps his work on the Egyptian demotic
script, which had been relatively neglected since Champollion's
death. This two-volume illustrated history of Egypt, 'derived
entirely from the monuments', was first published in an English
translation (by H. D. Seymour, from the 1876 first German edition,
and edited by Philip Smith) in 1879. Brugsch brings to bear his
wide experience of the archaeological sites together with his
linguistic expertise, and deliberately eschews later Greek and
Roman accounts of Egypt. Volume 2 covers the period from the
Nineteenth Dynasty, the time of the empire's widest extent under
Seti I and Rameses II, through the later decline and
disintegration, with ruling dynasties from Nubia and Assyria, to
the Persian conquest in 525 BCE. An appendix discusses the biblical
account of Exodus in the context of Egyptian material remains.
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