数量xxvi, 645 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : ; 20 cm.
一般注記Part One: After the Great Pyramids - History and Hieroglyphs. The Story up to Now: A History in Pyramids ; Writing Changes Everything ; Reviving Hardjedef? -- Part Two: Making "Ancient Egypt" - Champollion and his Successors. In the Beginning ; The Road to Memphis ; Aftermath -- Part Three: Old Kingdom - The Giza Kings, 2625-2500 BC. The Eloquence of Statues ; Finding Menkaure ; Royal Households ; After Giza -- Part Four: Old Kingdom - Abusir and After, 2500-2200 BC. Abusir and Saqqara ; Meat, Bread and Stone - An Economy of Offering. The Living Court ; The Living Kingdom ; Cult and Kingdom -- Part Five: Old Kingdom - Ancient Records, Ancient Lives. Papyrus to Stone ; Writing in the Pyramids ; The Dead and the Quick - Processing the Past ; Interpreting the Pyramids ; Look at Us! - Meet the Courtiers -- Part Six: Interregnum, 2200-2140 BC. Suddenly it Stops -- Part Seven: Middle Kingdom - Remaking the State, 2140-1780 BC. Sema Towy - Binding the Kingdom ; The Court of Thebes ; The Materials of State - The Court at Work ; The Levant and Nubia -- Part Eight: Middle Kingdom - The Re-made State, 2000-1660 BC. The Court at Home ; Living in the State -- Epilogue: Reflections on a Golden Age.