RIVER OF KINGS: A Fast History of Ancient Egypt - Couverture souple

Hillman, Jonathan C.

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ISBN 13 : 9798189388705

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Egyptians living under Ramesses the Great were already looking back on the pyramids the way we look back on the Roman Empire — as impossibly ancient monuments built by people from a different age entirely. The distance between the Great Pyramid and Cleopatra is longer than the distance between Cleopatra and today.

RIVER OF KINGS tells that three-thousand-year story fast: thirteen turning points, one river that made a civilization possible, and a dynasty that kept collapsing and rebuilding itself along the same predictable flood cycle. A queen who had herself crowned king. A religious revolution so threatening that Egypt spent a generation trying to erase it from memory. A minor boy pharaoh who became the most famous name in the ancient world purely by accident, three thousand years after his death. A single bilingual stone that reopened a civilization's own voice after fourteen centuries of silence.

Written with the pace and voice of a great storyteller rather than a textbook, this is Egyptian history for readers who want the real story — accurate, vivid, and built to move — without wading through a thousand pages of dynasties and king lists to get it. The book also tackles head-on how the pyramids were actually built, using real archaeology to put to rest the lost-civilization and ancient-astronaut myths that still surround them.

Inside you'll find:
- The thirteen defining turning points of ancient Egyptian history, from Narmer's unification to the decoding of hieroglyphs
- Seven deeper-dive chapters: daily life along the Nile, Egyptian religion and the afterlife, hieroglyphic writing, Egypt's female pharaohs, the real engineering behind the pyramids, Tutankhamun's 1922 discovery, and Egypt's lasting global legacy
- A cast of characters, a quick-reference timeline, and a glossary

Whether you're new to this history or already know your Narmer from your Nefertiti, RIVER OF KINGS moves at a pace that respects your time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798189388705
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 57
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