This book provides an introduction to one of the greatest civilizations of all time – ancient Egypt. Beginning with a geographical overview that explains the development of Egypt’s belief systems as well as Egypt’s subsequent political development, it examines methodology, the history of the discipline ...
Follows the history of mummification in Egypt from the dynastic age, including a consideration of the mummy in modern popular culture and a discussion of modern scientific mummy analysis. This work is useful for scholars of ancient Egypt, those interested in the rituals of death, students of the occult, children studying history, and film buffs.
A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and depth, and which remains to the present day a valuable key for understanding history as both an idea and a professional practice.
