G. Maspero 
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. 2 [EPUB ebook] 

The twelve-book series includes over 1200 illustrations. This volume covers: The Political Constitution of Egypt, The Memphite Empire, and The First Theban Empire. Civilization. According to Wikipedia: ‘Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (June 23, 1846 – June 30, 1916) was a French Egyptologist… Among his best-known publications are the large Histoire ancienne des peuples de l’Orient classique (3 vols., Paris, 1895-1897, translated into English by Mrs Mc Clure for the S.P.C.K.), displaying the history of the whole of the nearer East from the beginnings to the conquest by Alexander…’