This student-friendly introduction to the archaeology of ancient
Egypt guides readers from the Paleolithic to the Greco-Roman
periods, and has now been updated to include recent discoveries and
new illustrations.
* Superbly illustrated with photographs, maps, and site
plans, with additional illustrations in this new edition
* Organized into 11 chapters, covering: the
history of Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology; prehistoric and
pharaonic chronology and the ancient Egyptian language; geography,
resources, and environment; and seven chapters organized
chronologically and devoted to specific archaeological sites and
evidence
* Includes sections on salient topics such as the
constructing the Great Pyramid at Giza and the process of
mummification
Sobre el autor
Kathryn A. Bard is Professor of Archaeology at Boston
University. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
she has directed excavations in Egypt and northern Ethiopia since
1989, and in 1998 was given the Chairman’s Award of the
National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and
Exploration. She is the author of From Farmers to Pharaohs:
Mortuary Evidence for the Rise of Complex Society in Egypt
(1994), the editor of The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt: An
Encyclopedia (1999), and is on the editorial board of The
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology published by the Egypt
Exploration Society. Professor Bard is co-director of excavations
at the pharaonic harbor at Mersa-Wadi Gawasis on the Red Sea, which
has uncovered evidence of ancient Egyptian ships used in seafaring
expeditions to the land of Punt, probably located in what is now
eastern Sudan and Eritrea.
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