A History of Egypt under the Pharaohs, Derived Entirely from the Monuments: Volume 2
To Which Is Added a Memoir on the Exodus of the Israelites and the Egyptian Monuments

This illustrated two-volume history of Egypt, 'derived entirely from the monuments', was first published in English in 1879.

Heinrich Karl Brugsch (Author), Henry Danby Seymour (Translated by), Philip Smith (Edited and translated by)

9781108084734, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 May 2015

422 pages, 1 colour illus. 1 map 4 tables
21.5 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.7 kg

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.

14. The nineteenth dynasty
15. The twentieth dynasty
16. The twenty-first dynasty (the priest Hirhor and his successors)
17. The twenty-first dynasty, of Assyrians
18. The twenty-fifth dynasty
19. Dynasties twenty-six to thirty-one
20. Fall of the kingdom of the pharaohs
Appendix
Discourse on the Exodus and the Egyptian monuments
Index.

Subject Areas: Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology [HDDG]