A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 2: From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom

The second volume of a "stimulating account of the birth of what may turn out to be the world's oldest civilization" (Nature, UK).

Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a peak of Pharaonic culture and the period when writing first flourished. Through extensive research over many decades of work, Romer reveals how the grand narratives of nineteenth and twenti...